The Rural Architecture Museum of
Sanok
Sanok (in full the Royal Free City of Sanok — , , ''Sanok'', , ''Sianok'' or ''Sianik'', , , ''Sūnik'' or ''Sonik'') is a town in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship of southeastern Poland with 38,397 inhabitants, as of June 2016. Located on the San ...
() is one of the biggest
open-air museum
An open-air museum is a museum that exhibits collections of buildings and artifacts outdoors. It is also frequently known as a museum of buildings or a folk museum.
Definition
Open air is "the unconfined atmosphere ... outside buildings" ...
s in
Poland
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. It was established in 1958 by Aleksander Rybicki and contains 200 buildings which have been relocated from different areas of
Sanok Land (
Low Beskids
The Low Beskids () or Central Beskids (; ; ) are a mountain range in southeastern Poland and northeastern Slovakia. They constitute a middle (central) section of the Beskids, within the Outer Eastern Carpathians.
Since there are several tradit ...
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Pogórze Bukowskie
The Pogórze Bukowskie (also ''Bukowskie Upland'', ''Bukowsko Upland'', ''Bukowskie Piedmont'', ''Bukowskie Plateau'', ''Bukowskie Foothills'') is one of the Beskids mountain ranges of the Outer Eastern Carpathians in southeastern Poland, part of ...
,
Doły Jasielsko Sanockie Doły may refer to the following Polish places:
* Doły, Lesser Poland Voivodeship (south Poland)
* Doły, Łomża County in Podlaskie Voivodeship (north-east Poland)
* Doły, Mońki County in Podlaskie Voivodeship (north-east Poland)
* Doły, L ...
). The Sanok museum shows 19th and early 20th century life in this area of Poland.
Story
The park is divided into distinct but similar-looking sections - each featuring an ethnic group who lived in the region prior to the
post-World War II forced resettlements. people once called Rusyny/Ruthenians (Ukrainians) (
Boykos
The Boykos or Boikos (; ; ; ), or simply Highlanders (; ), are an ethnolinguistic group located in the Carpathian Mountains of Ukraine, Slovakia, Hungary, and Poland. Along with the neighbouring Lemkos and Hutsuls, the Boykos are a regional subg ...
,
Lemkos
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Lemkos are often considered to be a sub-group of ...
and
Dolinians) and
Polish Uplanders
Polish Uplanders (; also known as Western Pogorzans and Eastern Pogorzans), form a distinctive subethnic group of Poles that mostly live in the Central Beskidian Range of the Subcarpathian highlands. The Polish Uplanders inhabit the central and ...
(pl. Pogórzanie) homes and churches have been transported there from surrounding villages, restored to their original condition and furnished with authentic objects of the period.
The individual ethnographic groups (Boyko, Lemko, Pogórzanie and Dolinians) are arranged in separate sections which perfectly fit the landscape physiography: the Bojko and Lemko architecture was located in the upper part of the park, whereas that of the Pogórzanie and in the upper part of the area.
One can go inside many of the buildings including several homes, a school house and a Roman Catholic or Greek-Catholic church. The museum also possesses a large photographic archive, including authentic photos from the 19th and 20th centuries.
Galician market square
The ethnographic museum in Sanok has undergone a major transformation in the last two years. A "new" Rynek (Town Square) has been built just inside the entrance. It is a replica of a Galician town square from the second half of the 19th century, inhabited by Polish Jewish and Rusyn populations. Besides reconstructed houses from various Subcarpathian towns, there is also a genuine Jewish house, firehouse, tavern, post-office, chemist's, shop, barber's and others. The exhibits include replicas of typical galician houses from
Dębowiec,
Jaśliska
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The village ...
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Sanok
Sanok (in full the Royal Free City of Sanok — , , ''Sanok'', , ''Sianok'' or ''Sianik'', , , ''Sūnik'' or ''Sonik'') is a town in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship of southeastern Poland with 38,397 inhabitants, as of June 2016. Located on the San ...
,
Jaćmierz,
Niebylec,
Jedlicze
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History
The settlement of Jedlicze was founded in the late 14th century, and wa ...
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Bircza
Bircza () is a town in Przemyśl County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Bircza. It lies approximately south-west of Przemyśl and south-east of the regional ...
,
Rybotycze
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,
Sokołów Małopolski
Sokołów Małopolski is a town in Rzeszów County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, Poland, with a population of 3,962 (2 June 2009).
Geography
Sokołów Małopolski lies in Sandomierz Basin, 24 kilometers north of Rzeszow, and 11 kilometers from Rze ...
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Brzozów
Brzozów ( ''Brezhov''; lat. ''Brozovia'', or ''Prozzow'') is a town in south-eastern Poland, with 7,336 inhabitants as of December 2021. It is situated in Subcarpathian Voivodeship and is the seat of both Brzozów County and the smaller adminis ...
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Stara Wieś,
Ustrzyki Dolne
Ustrzyki Dolne (; , ) is a town in south-eastern Poland, situated in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship (since 1999) close to the border with Ukraine. It is the capital of Bieszczady County, with 9,383 inhabitants (02.06.2009).
In existence since the ...
, and
Golcowa
Golcowa is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Domaradz, within Brzozów County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland. It lies approximately north of Brzozów and south of the regional capital Rzeszów
Rzeszów ( ...
.
This skansen is interesting because it includes sections devoted to the various ethnical groups who inhabited the
Bieszczady area prior to
World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...
and
Akcja Wisla
Operation Vistula (; ) was the codename for the 1947 forced resettlement of close to 150,000 Ukrainians in Poland, Ukrainians (including Rusyns, Boykos, and Lemkos) from the southeastern provinces of People's Republic of Poland, postwar Poland to ...
.
Its Address is 38-500 Sanok, street Traugutta 3.
The entrance to the museum is across the bridge over the river
San (Rybicki street). Parking is available near the museum, which is open year-round.
See also
*
Hvisdets Synagogue
Sources
* Jerzy Ginalski, Marian Kraczkowski. Skansen w Sanoku. 2002
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