Open air museum Zubrnice, Rural heritage museum in Zubrnice, Czech Republic.
The Open-Air Museum Zubrnice occupies the village of Zubrnice in the České středohoří Protected Landscape Area, in the valley of the Luční potok. Its buildings include log, half-timbered and brick houses, water mills and religious structures, arranged to evoke the mid-19th century. The first exhibit was farmstead No. 61, a former reeve's house from the early 19th century.
The impulse to found the museum came from František Ledvinka, head of the professionalized Soubor lidové architektury Zubrnice from 1977. Its creation is tied to saving the 14th-century Church of St. Mary Magdalene, which Octavio Broggio rebuilt in Baroque style in the 18th century and which was slated for demolition in the 1970s. The first exhibit was farmstead No. 61, an early 19th-century former reeve's house. Zubrnice was declared a village heritage reserve on 25 July 1995, and since 11 December 2018 the museum has been an organizational unit of the National Museum in Nature.
The museum occupies the village of Zubrnice itself, whose medieval core was declared a village heritage reserve on 25 July 1995. The first exhibit was farmstead No. 61, a former reeve's house from the early 19th century. A timbered village building from Loubí u Holan, dated 1700, was dismantled in 1994–1995, rebuilt in the grounds in 2010–2012 and opened in 2013 for educational programmes.
The museum occupies the village of Zubrnice in the valley of Luční potok, in the České středohoří Protected Landscape Area. The grounds combine the original village buildings with structures moved here from elsewhere, so allow time to walk between the farmstead, the church and the surrounding houses. The terrain is a rural village setting rather than a single exhibition hall.
A Baroque well from 1695 was relocated here and now stands among the historic houses. Five old mills in Mill Valley still operate today and demonstrate traditional milling techniques.
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