Godziny otwarcia i cennik

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This residential house with a central hallway was built in 1863 by the Grzybowski family. The house was on Starachowicka street in Wąchock, where the oldest and the most interesting examples of small-town architecture survived into the twentieth century.
A two-bayed, wide-fronted building was erected on stone foundations. The walls are made from wooden beams with the corners joined using two-sided lap joints with protruding ends (ostatki). The building is surmounted with a hipped roof, covered by a double layer of broken shingles. Central, cobbled hallways with open (without ceiling) access to the attic were typical features of the wooden architecture of nineteenth-century Wąchock. The house that was transferred to the open-air museum features plank and paneled doors and two-winged windows framed with jambs. These are noteworthy elements of the house’s interior which consists of a large living room on the right side of the hallway, a small kitchen further on and another residential room and storeroom on the left.
The interior of a small-town shop from the 1930s has been arranged in the house from Wąchock, using original shop furniture. Pre-war bottles, jars and other packaging may be seen on the shelves and in showcases. Over the entrance hangs an old shop-sign which reads: ”POLISH GROCERY. WŁADYSŁAW KORNECKI”, coming from Końskie. The grocery offered a wide range of goods, from cosmetics and chemical products, through tobacco products, alcohols and beer to food, including cured meats and confectionery. Among the more interesting exhibits there is the freezer from the HABERBUSCH brewery, an ice-cream machine, a kerosene oil dispenser and a collection of writing accessories.
In the second room of the shop there is gaseous water was made, whilst on the other side of the hallway there are the recreated living rooms of the shopkeeper’s family.