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The homestead from Gęsice consists of a cottage and a barn. The wooden cottage was built in 1852 by Paweł Masternak, a peasant running a farm with 29 morgas of land. The wide-front, single-bay cottage shows many old-fashioned features typical of the historic architecture in the Łagów area. They include a clay pug floor in the hallway, the entrance gate of simple hinge-less construction, and a particularly thick (20 cm) ceiling over the storeroom.

The walls of the building have corners joined using two-sided lap joints and are made from pine wood. Originally, the house was set directly on the ground, without stone underpinning. The ceiling was made from shaven boards. The date of the house construction and the cross in the circle are carved in the principal beam.

The interior consists of a storeroom, a hallway and a dwelling room. The house is furnished with a kitchen stove with eaves, a bread oven and a heating stove. It is covered by a “stepped” hipped straw roof. 

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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.

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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.

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The manor house from Mirogonowice is one of the finest buildings recently acquired by the open-air museum. It is a reconstruction of a country manor house erected in the eighteenth century. It represents a characteristic type of a nobility residence, with a simple, symmetrical architectural layout, the central hallway and the drawing room.
Thanks to the co-financing from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage under the Cultural Heritage Programme, Priority: Support for Museum Activities, the transfer of polychrome paintings from the original manor from Mirogonowice, from 1984 on storage at the Kielce Village Museum, was made possible.
The artist who painted the polychromy has not been ultimately identified, though the echoes of the works by V. Brenna (Natolin, 1780), J. Plersch (the White House in Łazienki, A. Smuglewicz (Lewków, ca. 1800) may be retraced. In one of the polychrome details, the signature of the painter may be seen, of which his first name “Józef” is legible. The polychrome paintings adorn the walls and ceilings of five first-floor rooms: the Philosophers’ Room (library), the drawing room, the dining room, the bedroom and the Turkish Room.
The polychromy consists of 102 pieces of a total area: 152.76 m2. Before conservation condition of some surviving paintings was rather poor. In most cases, delamination, cracking and weakening of the painted surface were visible in all elements. Bleaching, flaking and peeling fragments were also seen here and there. All elements were covered with dust and dirt. Many of the paintings were indistinct due to numerous missing parts.
The transferred elements were hung on the walls of the first and partly the second floors. The polychromy was protected against further damage and its historical elements preserved. Harmonised colours were applied on the whole polychromy with a conservation retouch in the missing parts.
Polychromies are in the trompe l’oeil painting technique with numerous allusions to the ancient times. Baroque heating stoves and chimneys have been also reconstructed in the manor’s rooms.
The Manor from Mirogonowice houses the offices of the Kielce Village Museum.