Open-air museums:
Buildings of interest transferred from very different locations into a single
ready-made locations
place, often set against breathtaking backdrops.
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Their designers paid special attention to
If something resembles paradise on earth for
Another asset of such places is the ab-
making the open-air museums camera
set planners, it must be open-air museums.
sence of power lines and other modern stuff
friendly: something you are most wel-
The most interesting examples of architecture
that has proliferated around similar houses
come to take advantage of.
are brought to a single place from many miles
standing “at large” among the countryside.
Not only are such museums numerous
around, and the management has plentiful
in Małopolska Region, but “out there”
knowledge about their reconstruction very
are also locations which do not differ
helpful when, e.g. you need a copy to be built
much from them, e.g. the wooden
and burned down or blown up for the needs
village of Chochołów.
of your picture.
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Available throughout the year, open-air
Recreated in the open-air museums are
museums in a natural way participate in
not only typical village cottages, but primarily
the changing of the seasons: they look
the buildings that were the pride of a whole
very different clad in winter snow than
village as they provided special services, in-
when bathed in the rays of spring sun.
cluding cloth making, grain milling, and storing
In summer they will be adorned with
the harvest. Standing there are also manor
lush flowers, and in autumn – with
houses of village owners, churches, and plen-
ripening apples and other fruit.
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