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The cottage from Kobylniki was built in the first half of the nineteenth century. The wooden, single-bay corner-notched log structure is covered by a straw hipped roof. Originally, the building’s oak wood foundations were not set on an underpinning, but on large filed stones laid on the ground. The interior of the building has the following layout: storeroom – dwelling room – hallway – storeroom. The walls are made from halved logs. The cottage has two-winged windows, a plank door and a ceiling from wooden beams. The dwelling room has a stone kitchen stove with a hood a bread oven and a heater. All rooms have clay pug flooring.

The exhibition in this cottage acquaints the visitor with folk funeral rites in the inter-war period. At that time death was celebrated with great respect. In connection with the passing away of a close one, a number of rituals had to be followed to exclude the dead from the life of the living. This helped him or her to pass to the world beyond, while at the same time protecting oneself and the family against the sinister influence of death. To achieve these goals, mirrors had to be veiled, the lock stopped and the doors of the closets and the sideboard left half-open.

The exhibition in the cottage from Kobylniki relates to the tradition of the so-called ”empty nights” – keeping vigil over the dead and praying.