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The eight-family peasant house from Ruda Pilczycka was built around 1914. It is an interesting example of a wooden multi-house for manor servants from the nineteenth century (a variety of such a house was a “four-family house”, well known from Polish literature). The construction of the house was funded by Władysław Zamojski, a landowner, the last owner of the Wilczyca estate. The tall family house is a wooden building set on stone underpinning which is constructed on a square plan (dimensions: 32.20x11.54 m). It is a one-storey wide-front house, covered by a shingle gable roof. It consists of eight ”living quarters” with the following layout: hallway – storeroom – living space. In one of the rooms a brick bread oven has been re-created. Other rooms now serve as guest rooms and are comfortably equipped.

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The cottage from Wola Szczygiełkowa was built in 1870 by Augustyn Kolasa, how owned 17 morgas of the land. The wooden cottage was situated some 150 m from the village road, along with other structures: utility buildings, a cowshed, a shed and a barn. In the interwar period, the owner rented the cottage to the four-grade Elementary School.

The walls of the cottage were built from hewn fir beams, insulated with moss and clay. The beams have notched corners with dove-tail ends. The plank ceiling in the living rooms was fitted onto the roofing beams, with heat insulation from a mixture of clay and chaff. The cottage with the following layout: hallway – large dwelling room – small dwelling room – storeroom – is covered by a hipped straw roof. The large room, the small room and the hallway have wooden plank doors, a kitchen stove with a hood, a bread oven and a heater in each of them. The bedchamber has a kitchen stove without a hood. In the hallway one can see a chimney with a recess.

The cottage interior has been arranged as a classroom from the 1830s and the teacher’s living quarters.

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The cottage was probably transferred around 1840. The building constructor and first owner was the peasant Józef Teofil. It is a wide- front, single-bay cottage with a through hallway on the building’s axis. The notched-corner log walls are made from fir beams. The original layout of the house interior has survived, consisting of a hallway, a dwelling room and a storeroom. Four of the doors in the house were hung on archaic wooden revolving mechanisms, instead of wrought-iron hinges. It is the original system and a feature that was preserved when transferring the building to the open-air museum.

Inside the dwelling room there is a kitchen stove with a bread oven and a heater. The hallway and the storeroom have a clay pug floor.

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The cottage from Bronkowice in the Pawłów municipality was built at the end of the eighteenth century. The building was funded by the peasant Kacper Cioroch. The cottage was transferred to the museum by Stanisław Wilczyński.

The cottage was made from logs with quoins joined using one-sided lap joints. It has a hipped straw roof, with one row of shingles (szary) on the roof ridge. It is a wide-front building with the following layout: hallway – dwelling room – storeroom. The hallway has a door hug on a revolving mechanism as well as a heating stove fuelled from the hallway (a recess at the base of the chimney).

In the dwelling room there is a stove with a stone plate for cooking on an open flame; over it there is an old-fashioned straw-covered with clay binding, and a bread oven. Cast-iron pots are place on a dynarek – a wrought-iron tripod placed over open flames.

The cottage is furnished as if it was the home of a village herbalist, hence the bunches of various kinds of herbs drying in the hallway. Also on display are herbal preparations in original jars and glass bottles.

Until the 1970s, the services of ”folk doctors” were widely used in the Kielce region – herbalists, folk healers, wise old women (babki) village midwives, as well as blacksmiths who acted as “dentists”, if necessary.

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The barn from Ciuślice is a rural utility building erected in the second half of the nineteenth century. Its walls, of spandrel beam structure, are made from pine wood, and the spaces between the boards are filled with plaited thick wicker not stripped of bark.

The barn has a purlin-and-rafter gable roof, with smooth thatch. The gables feature vertical boarding. The interior of the barn is divided into two mows and a central, open-passage threshing floor.

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The house was built in the years 1840 – 1850 by Walenty Kaczor, a peasant from the village of Ostrowce (Nowy Korczyn municipality). It is a wide-front, single-bay cottage, consisting of four rooms in the following layout: dwelling room – hallway – dwelling room – storeroom. The building is made from pinewood and is a post-and-plank structure with gaps between the beams sealed with clay. The cottage has a purlin-and-rafter hipped roof, covered by a smooth layer of straw. The building has four windows – one in the small room and three in the large room. Some rooms have clay pug floors, whilst the storeroom has a floor made from pine beams. In the dwelling room there is a kitchen stove with a cooking plate and a hood, a bread oven and a heating stove with a wide sleeping place behind the stove. The chimney in the hallway has a characteristic rectangular recess (gruba). In the small room there is a kitchen stove and a heating stove.

In the attic, noteworthy is the so-called “neck”, through which two stoves are connected to a single chimney.

The cottage from Ostrowce, along with the building of a barn from Ciuślice, form a small homestead, situated on sandy land, and surrounded by picturesque, young pine woods. The buildings are planned to house an exhibition presenting a fisherman’s homestead from the 1930s.

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The historic wooden cottage from the village of Niedziałki (Rytwiany municipality) was probably built around 1860. The walls of the corner notched log cottage were built from pine wood. The structure is covered by a hipped purlin-and-rafter roof, covered by a smooth layer of rye straw. The corners and roof ridge has a thatch reinforced with an additional layer of straw. The front of the roof slope roof has a flap serving for airing grain stored inside.

In the dwelling room there is a kitchen stove with a hood and a heating stove, whilst in the hallway, a post chimney and an additional kitchen stove. All rooms have clay pug floors. Under the beam ceiling and principal beams runs a load-bearing beam (siestrzan).

The dwelling room has two windows. The door and window openings are framed with jambs. The plank doors are fitted on wrought iron hinges. The living conditions of a poor peasant family in the early twentieth century have been re-created in the cottage from Niedziałki.

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The mill is dated to 1853. Originally it stood on the River Żarnówka. According to family tradition, it was built by Antoni Miernik. The mill is a wooden corner-notched log building, on a rectangular plan with the following dimensions: 6.90 m x 7.12 m. An annex built from stone with lime mortar was constructed next to the main building. The mill from Parszów has an underpinning and the walls were built from beams with quoins joined using one-sided lap joints with protruding ends.

The entrance to the mill and the stone annex is guarded by two plank doors fitted on wrought iron hinges. The main building has a wooden floor from beams laid on joists, and the annex – beaten ground.

The mill’s operation was ensured by two overshot wooden wheels, from which water was flowed through a channel built from pebbles and hewn stones. The mill mechanism consisted of the main driving roller, transmission wheels and a vertical shaft moving the mill stones in the grain grinding mechanism. The mechanisms rested on stone foundations. The water outlet was constructed using wooden beams and planks, whilst the levers from hewn wooden rods.