Visible from afar, the building with white plastered walls and blue-painted woodwork is a 19th-century example of a public building. It was relocated to the open-air museum from Podwilk in 1974. Its appearance differed from the architecture of the rest of the village, which was characteristic for buildings of this type. They could host inns, taverns, offered accommodation to travellers – in short, they were large homesteads playing the role of the social and economic centres in the rural community<0} Inns were usually built in the middle of a village, near churches, road junctions and route crossings. It was the same with this inn. It used to stand near a parish church, parallel to the road that used to be called the ‘cesarka’ (Emperor’s Road) (it used to be a trade route, the imperial road later and now a national road). The importance of the inn was increased by the fact that a border crossing between the Kingdom of Hungary and Galicia (officially belonging to Austria) used to operate in Podwilk, on the Bory (Spytkowicka) Pass until 1918. Podwilk was the northernmost locality of the historical Hungarian county of Árva (Orawa).