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The homestead from Gęsice consists of a cottage and a barn. The wooden cottage was built in 1852 by Paweł Masternak, a peasant running a farm with 29 morgas of land. The wide-front, single-bay cottage shows many old-fashioned features typical of the historic architecture in the Łagów area. They include a clay pug floor in the hallway, the entrance gate of simple hinge-less construction, and a particularly thick (20 cm) ceiling over the storeroom.

The walls of the building have corners joined using two-sided lap joints and are made from pine wood. Originally, the house was set directly on the ground, without stone underpinning. The ceiling was made from shaven boards. The date of the house construction and the cross in the circle are carved in the principal beam.

The interior consists of a storeroom, a hallway and a dwelling room. The house is furnished with a kitchen stove with eaves, a bread oven and a heating stove. It is covered by a “stepped” hipped straw roof. 

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This residential house with a central hallway was built in 1863 by the Grzybowski family. The house was on Starachowicka street in Wąchock, where the oldest and the most interesting examples of small-town architecture survived into the twentieth century.
A two-bayed, wide-fronted building was erected on stone foundations. The walls are made from wooden beams with the corners joined using two-sided lap joints with protruding ends (ostatki). The building is surmounted with a hipped roof, covered by a double layer of broken shingles. Central, cobbled hallways with open (without ceiling) access to the attic were typical features of the wooden architecture of nineteenth-century Wąchock. The house that was transferred to the open-air museum features plank and paneled doors and two-winged windows framed with jambs. These are noteworthy elements of the house’s interior which consists of a large living room on the right side of the hallway, a small kitchen further on and another residential room and storeroom on the left.
The interior of a small-town shop from the 1930s has been arranged in the house from Wąchock, using original shop furniture. Pre-war bottles, jars and other packaging may be seen on the shelves and in showcases. Over the entrance hangs an old shop-sign which reads: ”POLISH GROCERY. WŁADYSŁAW KORNECKI”, coming from Końskie. The grocery offered a wide range of goods, from cosmetics and chemical products, through tobacco products, alcohols and beer to food, including cured meats and confectionery. Among the more interesting exhibits there is the freezer from the HABERBUSCH brewery, an ice-cream machine, a kerosene oil dispenser and a collection of writing accessories.
In the second room of the shop there is gaseous water was made, whilst on the other side of the hallway there are the recreated living rooms of the shopkeeper’s family.

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The house was built in Wąchock around 1870, on Starachowicka street. It was part of the homestead complex which belonged to the Binkowski family. It is a wide-fronted two-bayed building (with a front entrance), a central hallway and two interior passageways. The corner-notched log walls have the corner beams joined with a two-sided inclined lap joint with protruding ends. The hipped roof is covered with a double layer of shingles. The cottage’s characteristic features include a cobbled hallway, accessed by a two-winged door made from wooden boards. The windows on the façade of the house are protected by wooden shutters. The kitchen and the adjoining room have kitchen stoves with heaters and a bread oven. In another room a tiled stove has been re-created– this shows the changes in such types of devices installed in residential interiors.
The large rooms of the cottage house an exhibition which shows what a small-town photography studio looked like in the inter-war period, as well as living rooms in the photographer’s living quarters. The studio is equipped with a bellows camera on a wooden tripod, a photographic screen which was used as a background for portrait photographs, a rotating stool, a retouching panel, as well as many other photographic accessories and photo-setting elements. The room is furnished with a set of valuable pre-war furniture adorned with batik. Numerous photographs from before 1939 add to the décor of the atelier.
The small room adjoining the studio serves as a darkroom, where equipment for developing photographs: an enlarger, a copier, a darkroom clock, processing trays, scales and laboratory vessels for chemical reagents are displayed.

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The manor house from Mirogonowice is one of the finest buildings recently acquired by the open-air museum. It is a reconstruction of a country manor house erected in the eighteenth century. It represents a characteristic type of a nobility residence, with a simple, symmetrical architectural layout, the central hallway and the drawing room.
Thanks to the co-financing from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage under the Cultural Heritage Programme, Priority: Support for Museum Activities, the transfer of polychrome paintings from the original manor from Mirogonowice, from 1984 on storage at the Kielce Village Museum, was made possible.
The artist who painted the polychromy has not been ultimately identified, though the echoes of the works by V. Brenna (Natolin, 1780), J. Plersch (the White House in Łazienki, A. Smuglewicz (Lewków, ca. 1800) may be retraced. In one of the polychrome details, the signature of the painter may be seen, of which his first name “Józef” is legible. The polychrome paintings adorn the walls and ceilings of five first-floor rooms: the Philosophers’ Room (library), the drawing room, the dining room, the bedroom and the Turkish Room.
The polychromy consists of 102 pieces of a total area: 152.76 m2. Before conservation condition of some surviving paintings was rather poor. In most cases, delamination, cracking and weakening of the painted surface were visible in all elements. Bleaching, flaking and peeling fragments were also seen here and there. All elements were covered with dust and dirt. Many of the paintings were indistinct due to numerous missing parts.
The transferred elements were hung on the walls of the first and partly the second floors. The polychromy was protected against further damage and its historical elements preserved. Harmonised colours were applied on the whole polychromy with a conservation retouch in the missing parts.
Polychromies are in the trompe l’oeil painting technique with numerous allusions to the ancient times. Baroque heating stoves and chimneys have been also reconstructed in the manor’s rooms.
The Manor from Mirogonowice houses the offices of the Kielce Village Museum.

The wooden, single-storey granary was built in the mid-eighteenth century. Originally, it was part of a complex of utility buildings that belonged to the Poor Clares’ Convent in Chęciny. In 1930, the complex of convent facilities was passed on to the Bernardine nuns. The congregation was the last private owner of the granary. It still performed its function until the Second World War.
The corner-notched log granary was built from wooden beams. It is surmounted with a hipped roof, which, according to historic accounts, remained half-thatched and half-shingle-covered for economic reasons in the nineteenth century. The wooden gallery visible at the front of the building is accessed through an external stairway and gives the building its particular style. The anonymous eighteenth-century carpenter who built the granary constructed the decorative rounded doorframes using a relatively simple construction method -- the use of ornamental braces.
Today, the convent granary from Chęciny is a rare example of such utility buildings in the Kielce region. In 1982, the building was purchased by the Kielce Village Museum. It is situated at the entrance to the open-air museum area, and has been adapted to serve as a ticket office and a shop where Museum publications are sold.

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The cottage from Siekierno (Bodzentyn municipality) was built by an unnamed village carpenter in 1887. This is testified by the foundation inscription and the date carved on the “principal beam” supporting the ceiling in the living room. The house was purchased from Henryk Brzeziński. It was transferred to the open-air museum from the village of Siekierno, located in the Sieradowicke part of the Świętokrzyskie hills. The walls of this originally two-bay cottage were built from fir logs, on a nearly square plan. The interior layout of its rooms was as follows: the hallway and the dwelling room were situated in the front part of the passageway, whilst a small bedchamber with the kitchen for cooking and a storeroom were in the rear part. The cottage has two-winged, six-partite windows, framed with profiled wooden panels. The house was rebuilt only once (ca. 1965), and has a surviving traditional stove connected with the chimney with a niche in the hallway. Currently, the building has been adopted to temporarily serve as the museum’s ”inn”.

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Toilets at a historical building.

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The wooden granary from Wyszmontów, originally built in Zawichost on the Vistula river, is an example of an eighteenth-century utility building. In the nineteenth century, it was dismantled and transferred to Wyszmontów, in the Ożarów municipality, where it was part of a manorial complex, next to the manor house and the distillery belonging to the last owners of Wyszmontów – the Załęski family.

The granary, built from larch and oak wood, has two storeys and an attic serving as a utility room. The walls were made from notched beams fitted using two-sided, inclined lap joints with their ends protruding outside the building. Four huge plank doors are fixed on wrought iron belt-strap hinges. Slit windows are closed with decorative wrought iron grating. The front wall has a gallery, created by a platform spanned between two annexes, with an eight-post colonnade supporting the roofing structure.

The granary has a hipped roof covered with a double layer of shingle, and houses permanent exhibitions devoted to vernacular culture and art of the Kielce region.

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The house from Skorzów was built shortly before the end of the nineteenth century. The large, sumptuous cottage was funded by Andrzej (1857-1923) and Jadwiga Lasia, wealthy farmers and owners of around 20 hectares of land. The post-and-plank walls of the wooden building were built using vertical posts (łątki) and horizontal planks (sumiki) fitted in grooves. The walls are covered with carefully made boarding, thanks to which the building looks stately. The wide-front cottage has a front entrance with a protruding, ornamental porch adorned with lintels and finely carved edges, and large pointed-arch windows. The building is covered by a gable roof on which the original ceramic roof-tiles have survived. Particularly noteworthy are the tile stoves in the living rooms and the rich kitchen furnishings, as well as the rooms’ multicoloured walls.
The cottage from Skorzów houses an exhibition presenting the interior of Doctor Witold Poziomski’s living quarters. He was a physician working in Suchedniów, a small town some 25 kilometres north-east of Kielce. Thanks to the surviving layout of rooms with two passageways, typical of two-bay houses, the waiting room, the doctor’s office, the bedroom, the drawing room and the kitchen could be arranged as they were originally. They are furnished with original furniture dating from before the Second World War, with some pieces actually originating from Doctor Poziomski’s living quarters. Many objects illustrating the process of promoting electricity which became necessary for medical practices in that period are displayed at the exhibition. In Suchedniów, where Doctor Poziomski practiced his profession, electricity was already connected to many buildings as early as the 1930s. Hence, we can see some luxury equipment from that time at the exhibition, such as a vacuum cleaner, a radio and a telephone. Kitchen walls were painted with the use of pre-war rubber rollers which adorned the walls with floral ornaments that were fashionable in the 1930s. Period furniture: an original Gerlach brand closet for cutlery, a trolley and a sideboard with a silver-framed china set are on display. As was the fashion in the period, the main table is situated centrally in the fine drawing room. In the doctor’s office – a rarity, ranked among the most interesting such exhibitions in Poland -- one can see a pre-war light treatment device on the couch. Next to it there is a portable, pedal-operated washbasin, and an original old gynaecological chair, a necessary piece of equipment for a medical practice.
In the interwar period (1918-1939), many small towns in the Kielce region had no doctor ‘s practices. Sometimes first aid to the sick was provided by chemists who dispensed appropriate medications.
Doctor Witold Poziomski was quite an unconventional person, known for his sense of humour. He served the Suchedniów community for over forty years.