303 Tokarnia, Tokarnia, 26-060
The Kielce Countryside Museum (Polish: Muzeum Wsi Kieleckiej) is a Polish ethnographic museum based in Kielce. It began its independent activity on January 1, 1977. Its main goal is to collect, protect and share the folk cultures monuments from the area of Świętokrzyskie voivodeship, with particular emphasis on folk architecture, and popularization of folk culture. The Kielce Countryside Museum consists of five departments: The Laszczyk Manor in Kielce, Ethnographic Park in Tokarnia in the commune of Chęciny, Mausoleum of the Martydorm of Polish Villages in Michniów and In situ facilities: Czernikiewicz's farm in Bodzentyn and Windmill in Szwarszowice. The headquarters of the museum and some offices are located in the exhibition and administration building at the back of the historic Laszczyków Manor in Kielce. The main object of the museum is the Ethnographic Park (open-air museum) in Tokarnia near Chęciny, located by the road No. 7 from Kielce to Krakow. There are permanent exhibitions of rural, small-town and manor buildings.
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