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Krzysztof Kluk Museum of Agriculture

Local name: Muzeum Rolnictwa im. ks. Krzysztofa Kluka

The museum is located on the grounds of a large park and palace complex, which includes a classicist palace, a stable, a coach house, an outhouse, a forester's lodge and a watermill and dozens of rural wooden architecture buildings (peasant huts, windmills, schools, churches). In the historic buildings there are several dozen permanent exhibitions, including the only one in Europe, with a few thousand exhibits museum collection of Easter eggs.

Founded in 1962, the museum holds tens of thousands of exhibits: everyday objects, clothing, furniture, folk art collections, veterinary equipment and farm machinery. Among the latter are several dozen historic agricultural and steam locomotives, which are equipped with wheels steam engines. The oldest is from 1900 and is still working.

The patron of the museum, 18th-century naturalist Fr. Krzysztof Kluka, was honored by the founding of "Garden of plants that are fit for medical use". In the garden is an exhibition "herbal traditions", which presents the history of herbalism from antiquity to the present.

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    Pałacowa 518-230 Ciechanowiec , Poland