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The Farm in Kadzidło was open on 19 May 1991, after four years
of being built. A new museum-building according to designers was
supposed to present a typical remote farm. This mini skansen,
situated on the edge of Kadzidło by the road from Warsaw to
Olsztyn, on an afforested plot, is to fulfill the role of a museum
presenting the material culture of kurpiowska village from the
turn of the last two centuries. The farm consists of the following
buildings:
- a cottage from the first half of XIX century moved from
village Golanka,
- a granary form village Łodziska - 1922
- a barn - 1916 - originating from village Tatary
- a wood-shed from the end of XIX century moved from village
Kurpiewskie
- a coach-house - reconstruction
- a well - reconstruction
The cottage and the barn are built of old trees, the gable of
the cottage is ornamented with the boarding. Paricular objects are
equipped with mobile relics coming from the collections of the
Museum in Ostrołęka. In total, there are 160 objects on the
farm: furniture, dishes, agricultural tools, means of transport,
everyday usage articles, fabrics, kierce, bunches, paper cut-outs
etc.
The cottage has a typical, centripetal, asymmetric scheme and
consists of a hall, a big room, alkierz and a small room. In the
granary there are placed dishes used for cereal storage, a flail
etc. In the barn on the treshing floor there is a grinder, a
treshing-machune, carts etc.
In 1995 the museum received a plot from the Commune Office of
Kadzidło, next to the Farm, of the area of 0,82ha. There was put
a reconstructed cottage moved from Brzozowy Kąt in 1987, which
was devoted to educational activity. There are held lessons and
ethnographic workshops, meeteings with artists, folkloristic
events.
In 1997 there was moved and assembled another cottage from Tatary.
It was covered with straw and a chimney and stoves were built.
Further works were stopped due to the lack of funds.
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