Ethnographic Park in Tokarnia

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.