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The house was built in Wąchock around 1870, on Starachowicka street. It was part of the homestead complex which belonged to the Binkowski family. It is a wide-fronted two-bayed building (with a front entrance), a central hallway and two interior passageways. The corner-notched log walls have the corner beams joined with a two-sided inclined lap joint with protruding ends. The hipped roof is covered with a double layer of shingles. The cottage’s characteristic features include a cobbled hallway, accessed by a two-winged door made from wooden boards. The windows on the façade of the house are protected by wooden shutters. The kitchen and the adjoining room have kitchen stoves with heaters and a bread oven. In another room a tiled stove has been re-created– this shows the changes in such types of devices installed in residential interiors.
The large rooms of the cottage house an exhibition which shows what a small-town photography studio looked like in the inter-war period, as well as living rooms in the photographer’s living quarters. The studio is equipped with a bellows camera on a wooden tripod, a photographic screen which was used as a background for portrait photographs, a rotating stool, a retouching panel, as well as many other photographic accessories and photo-setting elements. The room is furnished with a set of valuable pre-war furniture adorned with batik. Numerous photographs from before 1939 add to the décor of the atelier.
The small room adjoining the studio serves as a darkroom, where equipment for developing photographs: an enlarger, a copier, a darkroom clock, processing trays, scales and laboratory vessels for chemical reagents are displayed.