The Museum of Kurpiowska Culture

:: Kurpiowska Farm in Kadzidło - Wiesława Bogdańska

 

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.

 

Muzeum Kultury Kurpiowskiej w Ostrołęce
Pl. gen. Józefa Bema 8
tel. 0-29 764-54-43, fax. 0-29 764-54-43