This cottage from the second half of the 19th century comes was relocated to the open-air museum from Zubrzyca Dolna in 1976. It is a typical Orawa cottage with a ‘wyżka’ (a utility room above the white room) and a ‘przedwysce’, which is a gallery supported on protruding beams from where one can enter the wyżka. The hip roof is undercut at the front. The roof slopes low at the rear and sides, and wide eaves protect the walls from the rain and wind. Slightly set back next to the cottage, stands Wendelin Moniak's utility building from 1924, which reproduces the layout found in situ in Zimna Dziura where the building comes from. In the high ceiling of the black room one can see an opening through which smoke escaped to the attic and ‘polynie’ beams for drying firewood, which prove that the cottage used to have the chimneyless smoke removal system. With time, the cottage acquired a wooden floor and a kitchen stove called ‘śparchet’ with a chimney. The white rooms contains a ‘kympa’, which is a stove without a hearth (a wide and not too high stone structure with a system of heating ducts) combined with a kitchen stove. An exhibition dedicated to Piotr Borowy can also be seen in the white room. In addition to documents, photographs and memorabilia, notable is also a kneeler that used to belong to Piotr Borowy, a bookbinding press standing in the hallway and a dowry chest of the mother of another great man from Orawa: Ferdynand Machay.
Omylak cottage
Beacon
