The Museum of Folk Architecture - Open-Air Museum - Bardejov

Region: Region Prešov
District: Bardejov
City / Municipality: Bardejov, City part / Municipality part:Bardejovské Kúpele
Tourist location: Šariš

Category: Museums of folk architecture (open air museums)

The Museum of Folk Architecture - Open-Air Museum - Bardejov - Slovakia

The open-air museum is the oldest facility of its kind in Slovakia. It was open to public in 1965. On an area of 1.5 hectares, arranged like a park and garden, there are 24 exhibited buildings, which present the folk culture and the construction of two ethnic groups, Slovaks and Rusyns, living in the regions of Upper Šariš and Northern Zemplín. They come from the 19th and 20th centuries and they typologically belong to wooden constructions of the Carpathian type. There are four types of buildings:

Residential timber houses and their most common variants

House of poor peasant from the village of Frička, built in 1887
House of poor peasant from Hrabová Roztoka, built in 1896
House of middle peasant from Petrová, built in 1896
Residential building of small peasant from Maľcov, built in 1899
House of peasant from Kračúnovce, built at the end of 19th century

Various agricultural constructions

Barns and graineries (from locations of Petrovo, Kračúnovce, Maľcov, and Andrejová)
Barns (from Hankovce and Tarbaj)
Well
Blacksmith's workshop from Abrahámovce from 30s of 20th century
Fruit drying room
Pigsty from Veľkrop
Beehouse with wooden beehives; the oldest beehive in Slovakia from 1691

Technical constructions

Unique drilling equipment for the manufacture of wooden (mostly pine wood) water pipes; water driven; from Bardejov; part from 18th century and part from 1932; reconstructed in 1963
Technical equipment for domestic production of fabric - 'valkha' from Livov (used for processing woolen fibres into thick fabric); part from 1888, part from 1948

Sacral buildings

Eastern Rite wooden church from the village of Zboj, built in 1766, moved to Bardejovské Kúpele in 1967Belfry with gate from Nižný Orlík, built in 1763 Belfry from Nemcovce
St. Ján Nepomucký's Chapel from second half of 18th century
Wooden Church from the village of Mikulasova, built in 1730 The buildings are furnished and equipped with tools from the time when they were built. Outside the open-air museum there is a wooden church from Mikulášová, built in 1730, moved to Bardejovské Kúpele in 1931, and currently managed by the Šariš Museum.

The most precious exhibits

Unique water-powered drilling equipment for the manufacture of water pipes from 18th century
Technical equipment for home production of fabric - 'valkha' from Livov, made in 1888, part in 1948