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The potter’s workshop from Rędocin re-creates the workshop of the popular folk artist Henryk Rokita. The building was constructed around 1900 by Henryk Rokita’s father – Andrzej, using material from an old wooden cottage which was purchased, disassembled and then reconstructed in the village of Rędocin, at a certain distance from people’s houses.
The building has pine wood walls and is covered by a shingle roof. Inside there is a vertical potter’s kiln built in brick. It consists of a furnace and a fire chamber partitioned with a horizontal grill on which vessels are placed to be fired. The bottom of the fire chamber is built on a circular plan, and the heat from the furnace is led to it through special openings.
The main room in the building is a potter’s workshop with two entrances in the walls running along the building and two windows in the gable wall, opposite the kiln. The potter’s workshop has a leg-driven potter’s wheel (commonly known as toczek), for turning vessels fixed to a solid, heavy wooden bench. Parallel to it stands another bench used for kneading and forming clay. Above, under the ceiling there is a structure from boards and wooden rods – (zaluzy), used for drying earthenware products. On one side, by the wall there is a rotary quern the potter used for grinding lead oxide to glaze the vessels.
From the workshop’s interior one can access the furnace chamber in which vessels ready for firing were placed. The opening of the furnace is on the other side of the kiln, in the room where timber to fire the stove was stored.

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The homestead from Kalina Mała is an enclosed homestead, typically found in the southern Kielce region and in the Miechów environs. It consists of a cottage, a barn, a cowshed, a pigsty, a small pigsty and a large coach house. The entire complex consists of residential and utility buildings dating from the mid-nineteenth century. The homestead from Kalina Mała was built by Wojciech Podyma and Łukasz Idzik.
The Museum purchased the homestead from its last owner Krzysztof Podyma. The residential building (from 1852) is set on a clay-bound field stone underpinning and features walls made from wooden beams. It has a plank door and two-winged windows. The ceiling is bare and is covered with wooden boards. The floor in the dwelling room is covered with wooden planks, and in other rooms clay pug. The kitchen features a stove with a hood, a bread oven and a heater.
The cottage’s hipped roof is covered by a smooth layer of straw, stepped on the corners. The roof features a ”smoke-hole”, a remnant of a chimney-less cottage. At the rear, the homestead is accessed by a two-winged gate, between the brick livestock buildings and the wooden pigsty. The front entrance to the yard leads through a wide gate to the left of the cottage, and leads directly to the roofed, coach house that is open on both sides.
The enclosed homestead from Kalina Mała re-creates the living conditions of a prosperous peasant family in the 1930s. In addition to working on the land, the owners of the farmstead practiced rope-making and, seasonally, oil pressing. One can see here a small, home oil-press (standing in the hallway next to the summer kitchen) and a set of tools for rope-making (kept in the storeroom).

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The set of farm buildings from Szczepanowice represents a type of enclosed homestead, in which utility buildings and the cottage form a compact rectangle. This type of farm layout was once seen in the Jędrzejów, Włoszczowa and Pińczów poviats (districts). The construction of the homestead from Szczepanowice began in the years 1855-1860. The first owner of the farm was Wojciech Bzdela, a peasant who had more than 29 morgas of land. The construction of the homestead in its present form was completed in the 1890s.
The homestead consists of corner-notched log structure cottages (1855), a large cowshed, a granary with post-and-plank walls (from the turn of the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries) and a shed – coach house. Additionally, in 1912 a cellar was dug out in the coach house area, framed with broken stone.
The oldest structure in the homestead is a single-bay, wide-fronted cottage, with walls from hewn pine logs and lumbers, with quoins joined using lap joints with protruding ends. Its interior consists of a hallway, a dwelling room, a storeroom and a bedroom added at the turn of the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries. A stove with a recess wall furnace and a sleeping place behind the stove, as well as a bread oven are in the dwelling room. All rooms except the bedroom have a clay (pug) floor. The cottage is covered by a smooth thatched hipped roof, stepped on the corners. The farmstead is accessed by a two-winged gate on the left side of the house. At the rear of the farm buildings a wooden corner-notched log barn has been built.

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The Dutch-style windmill from Grzymałków (Mniów municipality) was built in 1931. Originally it was in the Pakuły village (Końskie poviat), wherefrom it was moved to Grzymałków in 1947. In 1976 the windmill was purchased by the Kielce Village Museum from Wanda Berner. The windmill was transferred to the Museum site in 1990 .
The three-storey Dutch-style windmill (Hollander) was built on an octagonal plan. It was constructed on eight oak wood foundation beams laid on field stone underpinning. The walls of framework structure are covered with boarding. The windmill driving and transmission mechanisms consist of two sails (śmigi), a stock, a vertical shaft, two horizontal wheels, spindles and two wheels supporting the sail turning mechanism. The building is covered by a rafter and collar beam gable roof, with a characteristic pediment visible on the side of the windmill’s arms. The roof is a movable, revolving “cap” Hollander windmills. The cap mechanisms are set on a wheel consisting from two wooden base elements. On the lower elements supported on the uppermost beams of the walls, a steel rail was fixed, on which small carts with cast-iron wheels move. The carts support the beams of the roof base. The cap with the sails revolves towards the wind through a wooden windhshaft mechanism which will be reconstructed in the future.

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The windmill, a typical ”post mill” (koźlak), was built by Michał Binkowski in 1880. The building is one of the oldest and at the same time the last wooden windmills surviving in Góry Świętokrzyskie. Still in the 1950s one could see around 15 such facilities in the Kielce environs. Most of them ceased to be operational between 1955 and 1965.
The structure of the post mill is based on the vertical shaft (sztymber) fixed on crossed beams and additionally reinforced with six braces (kozioł, from which the Polish name of the mills of such type was derived). The vertical post in the windmill has a “saddle”, on which two movable beams are supported between which a shaft is fitted – elements of major importance for the windmill structure. The entire post-and-beam structure, covered with boarding, revolved towards the wind with the use of a rope and a revolving wheel fixed on oak wood poles installed near the buildings. The boards placed on the upper, gable part of the roof adorn the roof, forming the motif of a cross.
The windmill mechanism consists of driving, transmission and working mechanisms. The milling is done thanks to stone mechanisms protected by a wooden shelter (łub). From there the milled material (mlewo) was passed to the cylindrical separator where it was cleaned and segregated. Good quality rye flour needed to be milled at least four times. The post mill from Dębno has a fully operational, almost entirely surviving original equipment and mechanisms.

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The manorial granary from Rogów was built in 1684, as testified by the date carved in the two original copper weather vanes on the ridge of the roof. On one of them the crests of the much celebrated former owners – the Firlej and Wodzicki families -- are painted.
The granary is one of the most precious monuments of its type in Poland. Originally it was situated right on the Vistula river, as part of the complex of Rogów granaries where grain was stored before later being floated down to Gdańsk. Around 1870, the estate owner moved the building to the end of the village in the vicinity of the famous seventeenth-century Rogów manor house which no longer exists. At the time, red brick foundations and ground floor were added to the granary, which was formerly an entirely wooden structure.
The granary’s corner-notched log walls were made from fir wood, and additionally reinforced with a Lusatian-type structure. The walls of the third floor (attic) have a post-and-plank structure. The Lusatian structure is noteworthy for its corner posts with their 50x50 cm cross-section – each of them was made from only one piece of larch wood. Among the surviving original architectural details, the trick wooden oak door on the first and second floor is also noteworthy, fitted on wrought belt-strap hinges.
The entire building is covered with a half-hipped queen post roof, covered by a double layer of shingles. The granary’s window openings are semi-circular and are protected by wrought iron grates. At times they were covered with wooden shutters with semi-circular tops.
The last owners of the granary from Rogówa were the Skórzewski family whose estate was taken over by the state in 1945. The facility was purchased by the Voivodeship Officer for the Preservation of Monuments in 1972 .

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The manor house from Suchedniów was built in the early nineteenth century on a horseshoe-shaped plan. Its owner was Wincenty Tarczyński. At the end of the nineteenth century, the building housed a post office.
The exterior walls were built from larch lumbers with boarding, whilst partition walls were built from fir wood. It has a half-hipped roof, covered by a double layer of fir wood shingles. A porch with columns and a pitched roof stands in front of the building. The windows have exterior shutters fixed on wrought hinges.
The interior is furnished in the way that was typical of a moderately well-off noble family in the second half of the nineteenth century. The drawing room is the showroom of the manor house, where official guests were entertained. It includes two sets of Louis Philippe style furniture, a classicistic commode, a glass-fronted cabinet with decorative vessels and a Buchach-style hanging on the wall.
Behind the drawing room there is the owner’s bedroom. This is where daily ablutions were performed and the owner and his wife got dressed. It also houses a wardrobe and a small table for lady’s needle-work. Two marital beds, a commode in the Louis Philippe style, an eclectic wardrobe and a lady’s writing desk in the Napoleon II style stand in the bedroom. Chamber pots and a decorative turtle-shaped spittoon complement the bedroom furnishings.
The manor also had a sitting room, i.e. a room for private family meetings – etiquette did not allow more official guests to be entertained here. Only family members and friends spent evenings in the sitting room, entertaining themselves with ”home concerts” or reading. The walls of the room are adorned with engravings depicting the historic buildings of the Republic of Poland. In the sitting room there is a piano from the renowned Józef Walenty Budynowicz’s workshop in Warsaw, a glass-fronted cabinet with crockery, a table with chairs and a fine Art Nouveau mirror. The private office of the master of the house, where he worked with the administrator of the estate or had some rest was an indispensable part of the manor house. Traditionally, a private office was furnished with a panoplium – a decorative display of white weaponry, which usually hung on the wall on a wall-hanging tapestry. Here the room also contains a sofa in the Empire style and an escritoire with a collection of books on estate management, manuals, atlases and fiction books.
At the sound of a bell hanging over the entrance to the manor house, the family gathered for daily meals in the dining room. A large table with a set of chairs with high backs and plaited reed seats take a central place in the room. There is a clock in the corner, a samovar by the window, a sideboard with tableware; family portraits hang on the walls.
The utility hallway was used as a storage room for old furniture and household equipment. The room also served as bathroom. A large copper bathtub, a wooden stave bathtub and a sideboard stand in the hallway. The walls are adorned with hunting trophies.
The kitchen was where everyday meals were prepared and preserves were made, to be stored in the pantry next door. In the kitchen there is a large, brick kitchen stove with a cast-iron plate and stove-lids and a whitewashed clay-lined bread oven, a sideboard, a shelf, a table, a water vessel and a stump for chopping wood. One can see here a lot of kitchen appliances: knives, spoons, choppers, various moulds large and small, bottles and vessels. A coffee roasting device was placed on the kitchen plate, and a wooden churn with a crank by the entrance to the pantry.
Behind the arcade passage in the base of the chimney there is the servants’ room, where the home servants did the housework – ironing, spinning, sewing, washing, and doing minor repairs. In this room poorer quality furniture was placed: a cupboard, a huge table, a chest of drawers, a sideboard and a hand-operated mangle. There is a spinning wheel by the table, and various types of irons on the chest of drawers.
The servants’ room adjoins the room of an old maiden – an impoverished female relative who helped around the house in exchange for accommodation and living. The room has basic furniture: a bed, a commode, a closet, a table with chairs and a lavabo. Lady’s knick-knacks and religious items supplement the room’s furnishings.

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The manorial granary in Rogów on the Vistula river was built in 1719. It was funded by Eliasz Wodzicki. Later, probably before 1850, it was dismantled and transferred to Złota.
This large utility building was built from larch, pine and oak wood; it is a corner-notched log structure, on a square plan (26.25 x 9.75 m). Over the main entrance one can read the original foundation inscription with the letters ”MM” – the constructor’s initials.
Thee granary is a two-storey structure, without a basement, but with a large attic serving as a storage room. On the first and the second floor there were two storerooms separated by a central hallway. A fine “Krakow-style” roof, shingle-covered, as well as profiled ends of load-bearing beams in the ceiling (rysie) are noteworthy elements of the granary’s architecture. The bevelled corners of lisice beams and posts supporting load-bearing beams inside the building also have a decorative function.
In view of its age and construction it is ranked among Poland’s most precious manorial utility buildings from the Baroque era.
On the upper floor of the granary from Złota there is an exhibition devoted to the traditional craft of smithing and folk costumes from the Kielce region. The granary storerooms on the ground floor serve as a venue for exhibitions, educational activities, science workshops and events, including the tasting of regional dishes.

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Toilets at a historical building.