The building emerged on the foundations of a family house with the original stone basement preserved. Have a look at the collection of painted dowry chests and characteristic sarcophagus chests with interesting geometrical patterns, made entirely of chipped beech wood without the use of any metal. You can see many 19th-century chromolithographs on the walls and the well-equipped workshop of a village shoemaker and saddler will help you learn the secrets of these crafts. A collection of oak barrels for wine and beer and a collection of bottles from breweries that existed in the area in the past, in particular from the Limanowski brewery run by the Mars brothers, can be seen in the stone basement. On the upper floor, you will see the equipment of a tailor’s and weaver’s workshop and accessories belonging to a village butcher. Have a look at the basket woven from roots and at the wooden moulds with an astonishing intricacy of design used in the production of sheep’s cheese. The open-air museum in Jędrzejówka is a private ethnographic collection created by Barbara and Krzysztof Jędrzejek in Laskowa, a village located in the picturesque valley of the Łososina River in the Island Beskids. The owners continuously expand the collection by adding new examples of 19th-century rural wooden buildings characteristic for the areas near Laskowa and enriching the existing collection with new exhibits presenting the Lach material culture. The owners’ intention for the open-air exhibition is to create a complex of functionally interrelated historical objects reflecting the culture and history of the people living in Laskowa and surrounding areas. The current collection is presented in ten buildings supplemented by landscaping elements such as wooden shrines, a 19th-century roadside stone shrine, an apiary with a collection of beehives and a reconstructed wild beehive in a powerful oak trunk.
Open-air museum in Jędrzejówka, Laskowa
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