The Upper Silesian Ethnographic Park ( pl, Górnośląski Park Etnograficzny) is an open-air museum in

Chorzów Chorzów ( ; ; german: link=no, Königshütte ; szl, Chorzōw) is a city in the Silesia region of southern Poland, near Katowice. Chorzów is one of the central cities of the Upper Silesian Metropolitan Union – a metropolis with a population ...

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. It is referred to as a , stemming from the first open-air museum of its kind, the

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. The area of the park is 25

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. The museum presents a range of agricultural buildings from all over

Silesia Silesia (, also , ) is a historical region of Central Europe that lies mostly within Poland, with small parts in the Czech Republic and Germany. Its area is approximately , and the population is estimated at around 8,000,000. Silesia is split ...

. Amongst those are cottages from the Beskids, farmsteads from the Pszczyna region, a wooden church from

Nieboczowy Nieboczowy (German ''Niebotschau'') is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Lubomia, within Wodzisław County, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It lies approximately south-east of Lubomia, west of Wodzisław Śląski, and ...

dating from the 18th century, and a large number of buildings and artifacts from Istebna in Cieszyn Silesia.

External links

Homepage of the park
Open-air museums in Poland Buildings and structures in Chorzów Museums in Silesian Voivodeship {{Poland-edu-stub