Open-Air Museum in Nowogródek

The Kurpiowski Open-Air Museum named after Adam Chętnik in Nowogród is one of the two oldest open-air museums of folk architecture in the country. The founder was Adam Chętnik, an ethnographer and social activist. The first object of the open-air museum was established in 1923. Gradually expanded with additional monuments and exhibits, it unfortunately was completely destroyed as a result of wartime actions. It was rebuilt in 1958, also with the involvement of Chętnik. Today, the museum belongs to the North-Mazovian Museum in Łomża. On an area of 3.5 hectares, there are 23 historic wooden buildings and several dozen elements of small architecture: gates, chapels, wells. In the upper part of the open-air museum, on Ziemowit Hill, during archaeological excavations, the foundations of a medieval brick castle were discovered, around which Nowogród was established. The entrance to the museum is adorned with a cottage from the village of Łyse, and tickets can be purchased in a manor house from the 19th century. The oldest part of the outdoor exhibition is the so-called Bartny Square with beehives.

From the square in the lower part of the open-air museum, there is a view of the panorama of Kurpiowszczyzna. Among the interesting objects, the following stand out:
19th-century watermill,
chapel of St. John of Nepomuk,
a farm windmill.

All buildings come from the period between the late 18th century and the mid-20th century from the area of the Kurpiowska Green Forest.

 

Author of the photos and text - Katarzyna Krajewska