8 Kolobrzeska, Bydgoszcz, Poland
The Wielkopolska Ethnographic Park in Dziekanowice is a branch of the Museum of the First Piasts in Lednica. On the area of approx. 21 ha, there are approx. 60 sites transferred here from various regions of Wielkopolska. The museum collects items related to the life and activities of rural residents from the Wielkopolska region. The permanent exhibition includes architectural objects: houses, livestock buildings, barns arranged into homesteads and built in the shape of a life-size village. Most of them are wooden, but also with skeleton walls in which wood and clay are combined, and with walls made of clay or bog iron. Individual buildings and farms are equipped with tools and clothing that illustrate the conditions and way of life of families earning their living from farming, but also of craftsmen. Moved here, among others farms, a hut-inn, a potter's house, a blacksmith's shop, various types of windmills, a cross and roadside figures, as well as a church and a chapel. In the open-air museum, you can see the Church of St. Anna and Wawrzyniec from Wartkowice near Uniejów. The manor and farm buildings were an inseparable part of the Wielkopolska village. In the open-air museum it is located south of the peasant buildings. It consists of a manor house - copies of a manor house from the second half of the 18th century from Studzieniec (Oborniki district) and two outbuildings from Łomnica (Nowy Tomyśl district) - and a farm yard with a hexagonal plan. The extensive collection consists of objects obtained for interior design: furniture, paintings, altars, and ceramics. It is complemented by items of clothing, among which women's hats stand out. The open-air museum organizes folklore events, such as "Żywy skansen" or "Topienie Marzanny". There is also a maintenance-free, educational field game, with which you can visit the Hollander's Farm.
