It is a late-19th-century building that has been relocated from Zubrzyca Dolna. It is an example of a newer development without a ‘wyżka’ or ‘przedwysce’, with a one-and-a-half-bay interior with a central entrance and an open porch with openwork planking. There is only one small window for smoke removal from the middle room that still has this archaic system. Side rooms have stoves with chimneys of the newer type. The building has a stone foundation and a deep cellar with a barrel vault where crops used to be stored. The exhibition displays a former pharmacy with its equipment referring to the oldest pharmacy in Upper Orawa, the ‘Pod Zbawicielem’ pharmacy belonging to Eugeniusz Stercula that existed in Jabłonka since 1902. Just like other provincial pharmacies in early 20th century, it played a big role in the life of the local community, not limited to the distribution of medications. Pharmacists such as Stercula and, later, Jan Neupauer offered professional medical advice and help but they were also practiced herbalism and folk medicine. Additionally, Stercula was also an amateur photographer, collector and documentalist of the folk culture of Orawa. He cooperated with Hungarian magazines and with a museum in Budapest and was in touch with Bronisław Piłsudski, among others.
Dziurczak’s cottage
Beacon
