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The wooden church from Rogów was donated to the Museum by the Diocese Curia in Kielce and transferred to the open-air-museum in 1996. Comprehensive conservation works were completed in 2002.
The hospital Church of Our Lady of Consolation was built in Rogów in 1763. It was funded by Michał Wodzicki, the owner of Rogów, the Great Crown Vice-Chancellor and Bishop of Przemyśl. The walls of the church have a corner-notched log structure, and were built from larch wood on oak wood foundations. Its purlin-and-rafter roof is shingle-covered (rafters are inclined elements of the roofing structure, whilst purlins are horizontal beams supported on gable walls). The Rococo style furnishings date chiefly from the eighteenth century. The beam is inscribed with the details and date of the building’s foundation and was made from one piece of larch wood. In its central part hangs a Baroque cross with the figure of Christ.
The richly adorned pulpit and original Rococo side altars are also worth noting. The left altar used to contain an oil painting depicting St John of Nepomuk (it had been stolen before the church was transferred to the Museum); the altar on the right-side contains a scene of the Crucifixion. The high altar contains the icon of Our Lady with Child originating from the second half of the eighteenth century. According to accounts discussing the sanctuaries in the Kielce region, the icon was considered to work miracles. In the eighteenth century, it used to be covered by a sliding image of St Nicholas.
Beside the passage to the organ gallery a precious painted confessional was installed. The rich polychrome paintings typical of the Małopolska Baroque style with strong accents of vernacular art are noteworthy. The ceiling is adorned with a painting depicting St Michael the Archangel fighting Satan, whilst in the chancel there is a scene of the crowning of the Holy Virgin Mary. The paintings in the church from Rogów were restored in 1864 in the course of the church’s renovation by Rudolf Marusieński, a painter from Wiślica who for a long time had been considered to have created them.
The church is still used for religious worship, with church services held and Holy Mass celebrated regularly in the open-air museum.