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Open-Air Museum of the Wooden Architecture of the Ruthenian People of Podlasie

Local name: Skansen Architektury Drewnianej Ludności Ruskiej Podlasia

The Open-Air Museum in Białowieża is a picturesque ethnographical park presenting the wooden architecture of Podlasie. It was established on the initiative of students from Białystok and their teacher Anatolij Odzijewicz in order to protect the valuable architecture.

The museum contains buildings which were brought here in pieces and put back together. The first object was the post mill from the 1930s. Its interior consists of the mechanism used for grinding cereal. It will be operating after the renovation planned in the future.

Other monuments are the workshop, stable, cowshed, reconstructed barn with the exhibition dedicated to the processing of flax and weaving, and also the banya - a traditional sauna. There are also three houses and the Chapel of St. Alexander Yaroslavich Nevsky where masses are said once a year.

Examples of small architecture are situated between bigger buildings. They include the well with a shadoof, fence made of so-called balusters (spruce branches intertwined vertically between three poles), hives inside tree trunks, and the cross commemoration 1000th anniversary of the Christianization of Kievan Rus'. The additional attraction is the accommodation in monumental Podlasie's house.

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    Zastawa 66b17-230 Białowieża , Poland