The open-air museum is an attempt to present the former village life in its entirety, determined as it was by the life cycle of plants and food crops, the change of  seasons and the order of work that was done in the fields but we cannot forget that life was also closely linked to the liturgical calendar and to the church, which was an important feature of the cultural landscape of the countryside.

Therefore, we show not only the architecture of residential and utility buildings, and the rural industry but also the deeply felt religion that was and still is very important in Orawa. The religious complex consists of the Church of Our Lady of Snows and 3 shrines (one of them behind the nearby parsonage from Podwilk and two on the church square), the parsonage and utility building belonging to it as well as the structures reconstructed near the church: the bell tower and the fence. Such a parsonage complex used to be the intellectual centre of a village, as was a manor house.