A thatched cottage and barn in the open-air museum in Dziekanowice i

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Greater Poland Ethnographic Park in Dziekanowice

The Greater Poland Ethnographic Park in Dziekanowice is an open-air museum that shows a traditional Greater Poland village of the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. It belongs to the Museum of the First Piasts at Lednica and lies on Lake Lednica, not far from Ostrów Lednicki.

Important before you go

The park is open from 12 April to 31 October. From 2 November to 11 April it is closed (all branches of the museum are closed from 21 December to 2 March).

About the open-air museum

Construction began on 29 September 1975, the first exhibition was opened on 1 June 1982, and the park gained museum status on 25 May 1993.

The open-air museum has houses, farm buildings and barns with their furnishings. The oldest objects date from 1602 and the youngest from 1935.

What to see

Village farmsteads, a wooden church and a chapel.

A Baroque manor house with a farmstead, an inn, a water mill and windmills.

Farmstead interiors with original furnishings, showing the life and work of the old village.

Good to know

Tickets are sold until 45 minutes before the exhibition closes, and tickets with an audio guide until an hour before closing. The ticket office closes for a break Tue–Fri 12:40–13:00, and at weekends and on public holidays 13:40–14:00.

Parking is free. Guides and museum lessons are booked by email (wpe@lednica.pl).

Ostrów Lednicki belongs to the same museum and has similar hours, but its own tickets.

Sources (in Polish)

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