Izba Regionalna "Chata Kawuloka" w Istebnej, Folk museum in Istebna, Poland.

The Izba Regionalna is a wooden house that displays how people lived in this mountain region during the 1800s. Inside, you can see household items, farming equipment, and traditional musical instruments arranged as they were once used.

The wooden cottage dates from 1863 and belonged to the Kawulok family. Jan Kawulok, a regionalist, instrument maker and storyteller, turned it into a private ethnographic museum. After his death in 1976 his daughter Zuzanna ran it until 2018; the curator is now Janusz Macoszek, winner of the 2010 "Po naszymu, czyli po śląsku" contest.

The museum bears the name of Jan Kawulok, a regionalist, instrument maker and storyteller who founded it in his family's 1863 cottage. His daughter Zuzanna ran it after his death in 1976 until 2018. The current custodian, Janusz Macoszek, won the 2010 "Po naszymu, czyli po śląsku" dialect contest. The cottage also hosts lace-making workshops and music lessons.

The museum is open year-round but only by prior arrangement, so contact the Kawulok family's museum in advance to fix a time. It stands in the Wojtosze hamlet of Istebna, on the Silesian section of the Wooden Architecture Trail, so it can be combined with other timber buildings nearby. Visits are paid.

The so-called black chamber (czarna izba) takes its name from the kurlawy stove, a hearth built without a chimney. Smoke drifted through the room and out through gaps in the timber walls and roof, blackening the wood over decades. The museum's founder, Jan Kawulok, was a regionalist, instrument maker and storyteller; his daughter Zuzanna ran the izba after his death in 1976 until 2018.