Wielkopolska Ethnographic Park, Open-air ethnographic museum in Dziekanowice, Poland.
Wielkopolska Ethnographic Park is an open-air museum in Dziekanowice displaying traditional rural buildings, workshops, and farm equipment from the Greater Poland region. The site contains multiple structures showing different types of homes and working buildings that once stood in villages throughout the area.
The museum was built to save buildings from the 18th and 19th centuries by moving them from villages throughout the region to this location. Creating this space was a way to protect the disappearing rural architecture of Wielkopolska.
You can watch craftspeople demonstrate traditional skills like blacksmithing, basket weaving, and pottery throughout the grounds, and taste local food prepared the way people made it long ago.
Plan to walk slowly through the grounds and see each building at your own pace, taking time in areas that interest you most. Wear comfortable shoes since you will be walking across a large outdoor space.
Many visitors miss that each restored building contains original furniture and tools that show how differently wealthy and poor farming families lived. These details reveal how class differences appeared even in the design and contents of village homes.
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