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The organist’s house from Bieliny in Góry Świętokrzyskie was probably built in the mid-nineteenth century. The Museum purchased the building from Wacław Kolasa. The corner-notched log structure walls are adorned with ornamental boarding and have a half-hipped shingle roof. The house’s interior has a two-bay layout with a central hallway. Each room has a stove connected to the central chimney.
Architecturally noteworthy features of the house include the two porches, whose gables are adorned with decorative cut out lintels, the roof truss and silhouettes of birds. The organist’s house contains an exhibition presenting a nineteenth-century small town pharmacy and residential rooms of the well-known Górbiel family of chemists from Suchedniów.
A dispensary and a chemist’s (pharmacist’s) laboratory have been arranged in two rooms of the organist’s house. The repository in which medications used to be kept comes from a pharmacy in Busko Zdrój, which no longer exists. Large glass bottles and jars, china containers, siphons, metal and wooden boxes for herbs and minerals stand on the shelves. Bottles in which narcotics were kept featured black labels with red framing and the white inscription ”Narcotica”. Containers with poisons – ”Venena” or ”Tabula A” – had black labels with white inscriptions. Strong medications, from ”Tabula B” group, had white labels with red framing and relevant inscriptions. The most common group of mild medications belonged to ”Tabula C”. They were stored in containers with white labels, black framing and inscriptions. In the pharmacy there is also empty cardboard and glass packaging that once contained medications and food products, as well as cosmetic products such as soap, cheek-blushing creams, tooth powders, therapeutic wines, mustards, refreshing liquors and the like.
Siphons and glass bottles remind us that lemonades and mineral waters were once usually sold at the pharmacy. At the dispensary there is a table (menza) which was used for dispensing medications. On the table there are scales, a vessel for leeches and a bookrest for the prescription register. Also on display are original lithographed prescription slips from the pharmacy in Oksa, photocopies of prescription slips and identification slips in the form of envelopes from the Saski pharmacy in Kielce and all kinds of labels from the pharmacy in Busko.
In the smaller room some equipment and exhibits of a Galen laboratory are displayed. The chemist’s workplace was arranged next to the window. On the table lie pharmacopeias (an official register of accepted medicines), the pharmacist’s price lists, writing utensils, laboratory scales, a microscope and burettes. Next to this place stand numerous mortars – of various shapes and made from various materials. An original eighteenth-century device for making wax candles is undoubtedly a unique exhibit. Other noteworthy exhibits are nineteenth-century glass retorts, a manual tablet press, a device for making suppositories, all kinds of glass funnels and jars, a press for squeezing fruit for liquors and tinctures. In the small front garden are herbs which are grown to supplement the exhibition.

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The henhouse from Bieliny represents a type of small, wooden, corner-notched log utility building from the Góry Świętokrzyskie area. The facility was built in 1895 and was originally part of the village organist’s homestead. Decorative cut-out shingles on the rim of the eaves, the harmonious proportions of corner-notched log walls and a hipped roof are noteworthy elements of the henhouse’s architecture. The henhouse is situated, as it was in its original location, next to the ”organist’s house” from Bieliny.

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The threshing room was re-created in the reconstructed post-and-plank manor barn. The building has a shingle-covered gable roof and two mows (places where sheaves and grain were once stored) and a threshing floor (a flat area in the middle of the barn). The threshing machines date from 1880. Initially they were installed in the frame-structure barn under a thatched roof, once part of the manor farm purchased from Makarewicz by the peasant Franciszek Szymański in the 1890s.
A lower part of the threshing room was divided into two small rooms for storing threshed grain and chaff. On the upper beams a floor from thick joggle-joint planks was laid. The thresher and the chaff separator were hung on the top, to be linked to the driving mechanism by a conveyor system. The Museum plans to install the devices in the future.

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The wooden belfry from Kazimierza Wielka is situated next to the church from Rogów. The two-storey frame structure clad in vertical panel boards is along the church fence. There are plans for it to be re-created in the future. The building has a single-covered hip roof. The hip roof consists of two pairs of opposite panels, one trapezoid the other triangular.
The belfry was built in1848 and transferred to the Museum by the Kazimierz Parish of the Elevation of the Holy Cross, but without its three original bells, which weighed 420, 220 and 100 kg respectively. Thanks to the 2008 Patronage Programme, an iconographic copy of the most precious bell from Kazimierza Wielka, dated 1776, was made by the Falczyński bell-foundry in Taciszów the same year.

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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.

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The wooden barn from Suchedniów was built in 1863. It is a corner-notched building with a shingle roof, a central threshing floor and two mows (places where sheaves and grain were stored). The barn also houses a small granary for grain storage with a separate entrance from the front. Of architectural note is the nineteenth-century plank door, adorned with wrought nails.
The barn was transferred to the Museum site in 1984. Currently its serves as a storage space where historic farm machines and tools are kept. Some of the various types of threshing machines, harvesters, sowers or chaff separators, are occasionally displayed at open-air events.

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The presbytery was built in the village of Goźlice (Klimontów municipality) in 1768. It was funded by the owner of the Ossolina and Goźlice estates, and the local parish priest – Jerzy Dobrzański. From 1957 to 1976 it served as a catechetical room, and later a grain warehouse.
The single-storey, two-bay presbytery with walls built from lumbers with quoins joined using lap joints was built on a rectangular plan. The façade is adorned with a central Baroque portal, sheltered by a gazebo porch. The portal details and its ornamentation were probably modelled on similar adornments that can be seen in Goźlice’s parish church. The hipped roof is covered by a double layer of shingles. The presbytery from Goźlice is the only eighteenth-century wooden parish building surviving in the Kielce region. Thanks to its style similar to that of manorial architecture, it is ranked among the most valuable examples of such architecture.

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The smithy from Radoski (Radoszyce municipality) dates from 1900. It was purchased from Stefan Majchrzak. The forge has a chimney-less hearth. Similar forges in the Kielce region (where smithing traditions arrived in the sixteenth century) operated until the 1940s.
The corner-notched log smithy (the walls consist of horizontal planks with notched corners) was built from pine lumbers and set on oak ground beams and stone underpinning. It is accessed through a wide, two-winged door.
Basic forging equipment consisted of a stone hearth with leather bellows for feeding the fire, anvils, tongs and a hand-drill known as a bormachine. In the smithy from Radoski one can also see original sets of tools including pliers, hammers, dies and taps.
The smithy served local farmers, providing such services as shoeing horses, repairing carts and farm tools and reinforcing wheels with metal.
In the tourist season various shows and museum lessons are held in the smithy to acquaint visitors with the work of the village blacksmith.

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The cottage from Rokitno (Szczekociny municipality) was built in 1805. Its owner was Jan Witek. It is a single-bay corner-notched log cottage with the following interior layout: storeroom – living room – hallway – dwelling room – storeroom. It is covered by a hipped straw roof.
The cottage is typical of those used to house two families of wealthy peasants together in the Krakowsko-Częstochowska Upland area. In such houses, the ageing owners, having passed down the estate to their successors, had their place in a small room (dożywotka) for life.
In the large room, the foundation inscription and construction date are carved on a beam running along the ceiling (siestrzan). In the cottage interior one can see characteristic furniture and furnishings from the early twentieth century. Of particular note is the “Kraków-style” chest and the table and chair made by an apprentice at a carpenter’s workshop. It is connected with the fact that on the basis of field research, the interior of this cottage features a reconstruction of a typical village carpenter’s workshop with a set of original tools. In Rokitno, carpentry was an additional occupation of peasants who mainly made their living by working in the fields.
The cottage was reconstructed at the Museum site in 1977.

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The barn from Brzuchania (Miechów poviat) was built in 1860 and was part of a homestead from Rokitno. The wooden utility building, which has an underpinning made of stone, features two large mows (places where sheaves and grain were stored) and a threshing floor. The owner of the building was M. Mastrzykowska. The barn was built on a hexagonal plan by an anonymous carpenter. Its six-sided roof covered by a smooth layer of straw was built according to a rarely used – sochowa – system. The clearly-marked eaves of the interesting structure shelters the gate. An additional noteworthy feature is the structure of the wall, which is made from thick halved pine logs.