Nadwiślański Ethnographic Park - Wygiełzów Open-Air Museum
Podzamcze 132 - 551 Babice
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The Nadwiślański Ethnographic Park Museum in Wygiełzów is a beautiful open-air museum of traditional wooden architecture located at the foot of the medieval Lipowiec Castle ruins. Here, you can see picturesque peasant farms with gardens and orchards, as well as craft workshops, a church with a bell tower, and a small-town ensemble.
Visiting the Open-Air Museum in Wygiełzów
The most important part of the Nadwiślański Ethnographic Park is the open-air museum of folk architecture: an oasis of peace, greenery, and flowers.
Almost 30 cottages, workshops, and additional "small architecture objects" such as chapels, wells, beehives, etc., create a mini world of a Vistula village and a small-town settlement of Western Krakowiaks.
The oldest building is the church from Ryczów from 1623, with original furnishings. The most impressive is the Manor from Drogini from 1730, with interiors of a typical Polish manor. Additionally, you will find a blacksmith's shop, oil mill, water mill, granaries, inn, and two small-town houses.
You can enter most of the buildings!
Lipowiec Castle in Wygiełzów
Part of the Nadwiślański Ethnographic Park Museum are the ruins of Lipowiec Castle rising on the hill above the open-air museum - currently closed (summer 2022), not open for visiting.
Nadwiślański Ethnographic Park - Practical Information
- Travel by bus or coach from the Krakow station towards Oświęcim and Chrzanów (via Alwernia) - about 40 km from Krakow.
- Parking: a few parking spaces are available in front of the open-air museum. You can also park in Babice.
- The paths are wide and gravel, though a bit rocky in places - however, there should be no major issues moving with a stroller or for people with disabilities. It might be difficult to enter the houses with a stroller.
- Near the open-air museum, there is an inn with regional dishes,
- you can have a barbecue in a designated area.
- The open-air museum hosts many events, educational activities, and workshops. Every year, in mid-July, the ETNOMANIA festival >>> takes place.
- There are playgrounds for children in the open-air museum.
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