Czerwony Klasztor

Red Monastery located on the border with Poland is both a town and a former Carthusian monastery located on its territory. Currently, the Monastery Museum operates in it. It includes monastery buildings, hermit houses and a monastery church. Liturgical objects, sculptures and paintings are presented in the interiors. There is also a reconstructed monastery kitchen and a pharmacy.

The Red Monastery is beautifully located on the Dunajec, at the foot of the Three Crowns. Founded in the fourteenth century, the monastery was inhabited by Carthusians and then by Camaldolese monks. Monks from these cloistered convents lived in small houses in the Hermitage. The monastery was dissolved by Józef II in the 18th century. Since then it has fallen into ruin. At the moment, reconstruction works are underway there.

The monastery museum presents the history and way of life of religious. Sculptures, paintings and vessels, books and liturgical costumes survived from the church and chapels in the large hall of the refectory. In the church, polychromies and interior furnishings are reproduced with care. In the residential part you can also see the kitchen and the herbalist's pharmacy. It also includes an herb garden. This is due to the figure of the monk Cyprian, who ran a well-known pharmacy here, and also built inventions, such as the wings on which he tried to fly.