Żółta Karczma, Historical inn at Aleja Wilanowska, Mokotów, Poland.
Żółta Karczma is a mid-19th-century building at Aleja Wilanowska 204 in Warsaw's Mokotów district, designed by Italian architect Franciszek Maria Lanci. It has a distinctive turret and now houses the Museum of the History of the Polish Peasant Movement.
The building was erected in the mid-19th century to a design by the Italian architect Franciszek Maria Lanci, and housed the Belle-Vue inn on the road linking Wilanów with the Piaseczyński Route, today Puławska Street. The inn went bankrupt at the start of the 20th century and the building fell into ruin. In 1929 Count Adam Branicki leased it to the Hunting Dog Breeding Society, which held training sessions there from 1931 until the society moved to Radzymin in 1937. It passed to the State Treasury in 1966, was entered in the monument register in 1971, restored in the early 1980s and since 1984 has housed the Museum of the History of the Polish Peasant Movement.
The name Żółta Karczma ("Yellow Inn") recalls the oberża Belle-Vue that operated here. In 1929 Adam Count Branicki leased the building to the Towarzystwo Hodowli Psów Myśliwskich, which trained hunting dogs here from 1931 until moving its seat to Radzymin in 1937. Since 1984 it has housed the Museum of the History of the Polish Peasant Movement.
The building stands at Aleja Wilanowska 204 in the Stegny area of Mokotów, on the historic grounds of the Służew village within the Wilanów estate. It has been the seat of the Museum of the History of the Polish Peasant Movement since 1984, so visits depend on the museum's opening hours. The site is a listed monument entered in the register in 1971.
The building's turret served as an observation post for insurgents during the Warsaw Uprising. After the war the inn stood abandoned and fell into ruin until it passed to the State Treasury in 1966 and was entered in the monument register in 1971.
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