Sightseeing Sierpc - Open-air Museum of the Mazovian Countryside

blue peasant hut among wild yellow flowers — I love this picture. Open-air Museum in Sierpc. Photo by A. Rybczyńska

“Peaceful village, cheerful village! Which voice can match your glory?” - This quote comes from Jan Kochanowski's “Midsummer Song about Sobótka”, in which the Polish countryside becomes Arkadia - a mythical land of happiness and eternal harmony.

The climate of the Polish countryside is wonderfully shown in the open-air museum in Sierpc. It is completely different than visiting Warsaw, Krakow or Gdańsk. You will feel different impressions there.

The open-air museum was established in 1975, as an Ethnographic Park. The first permanent exhibitions were made in 1984 in huts from Rempin, Izdebna, Rzeszotary Zawady, Dzierzążnia, Jonne and Chwały, in a granary and carpentry shop from Dzierzążnia and a barn in the homestead from Chwał. In 1985, the official opening of the Ethnographic Park in Sierpc took place. At the beginning, the Ethnographic Park functioned as a branch of the Ethnographic Museum in Sierpc. In 1987, these two institutions - the Ethnographic Museum and the Ethnographic Park - were joined and renamed the Museum of the Mazovian Countryside in Sierpc.

In the area of the open-air museum, a linear village typical for a Mazovian village has been recreated. This village consists of 9 peasant homesteads from the region of north-western Mazovia. The buildings represent folk construction from the end of the 19th century to the 1950s.

the family is walking along the hut painted blue — I have never seen blue huts before. Open-air Museum in Sierpc. Photo by A. Rybczyńska

The linear village is complemented by several independent architectural complexes. These are: a mill farm with a windmill; an inn complex with an 18th-century inn, a forge and a blacksmith's hut; a manor complex with a reconstructed manor building, a landscape park and a 17th-century chapel; a wooden church with a bell tower and an 18th-century wooden manor house from Uniszki Zawadzkie surrounded by a park. In total, about 80 objects of rural architecture, the interiors of which are equipped according to their function and place of origin. The appearance of the interiors of huts and a court is related to the annual agricultural and ritual calendar, presented in the form of cyclical exhibitions: Christmas in Mazovia, Polish Year in traditional everyday activities, Easter in Mazovia. Whitewashed with lime and thatched huts, surrounded by vegetable gardens, orchards and gardens, balks with grazing animals give the impression of a village still bustling with life.

two kids are sitting on a ladder cart — My kids are on the ladder cart. Open-air Museum in Sierpc. Photo by A. Rybczyńska

The natural scenery creates an ideal background for demonstrations of traditional field and farm work, everyday activities and rural crafts, presented during outdoor events (Sunday in the open-air museum, Picnic in the open-air museum, Cooking in the glade, Children's Day, Honey harvest, Harvest). Another type of village has also been planned - a roadside village, which, apart from peasant homesteads, will also include presbytery buildings, an inn and a smithy. Thanks to subsidies from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, the first and second stages of this project have already been completed. Permanent exhibitions are also presented in the exhibition halls. Visit open-air museum in Sierpc with me.

The open-air museum was also an open-air location for filming. You will see in my photos that I am sitting in the place where the scenes of the Polish series were shot.

How far is it from Warsaw to Open-air Museum in Sierpc?

The distance from Warsaw to Sierpc is 128 km

I invite you to see my photos from Sierpc. Here you will find beautiful wooden peasant huts with thatched roofs, also painted blue and white. You will see a wooden church, two mansions from the outside and inside with their furnishings, a windmill, wonderful multi-colored flowers and farm animals that accompanied us practically at every step.

a hut — The huts can be visited inside. Open-air Museum in Sierpc. Photo by A. Rybczyński

The yellow flowers growing by the blue huts looked wonderful.

a family is standing in front of the blue hut, around the hut, there are lots of wild yellow flowers — My whole family. Open-air Museum in Sierpc. Photo by A. Rybczyńska

These are my favourite huts, maybe because I love blue.

a boy and a old woman in front of blue hut — Unfortunately it was a pandemic time and masks were required. Open-air Museum in Sierpc. Photo by A. Rybczyńska

Look at this! The photo below is a frame from the series that I liked to watch, in the second photo I am sitting exactly at the same hut! The name of this series is “Stulecie Winnych”.

frame from the series, two soldiers talking to a man and a woman, an old army car is standing next to it, a hut in the background — Photo from the official website of the open-air museum in Sierpc.

a woman is sitting on the porch of a peasant hut — For a moment, I felt like an actress :) Open-air Museum in Sierpc. Photo by A. Rybczyński

a woman is coming out of a peasant hut with thatched roof, on both sides of the path to the hut there is a fence made of branches — Another hut visited. Open-air Museum in Sierpc. Photo by A. Rybczyński

a woman and a child are in a peasants hut, dried herbs hanging from the low ceiling — You can also hear some information about the hut and its fate. There are special markers above the door. Open-air Museum in Sierpc. Photo by A. Rybczyński

a woman is standing by the fence, there are a lot of wildflowers of different colors — I love visiting big cities, but I also love the countryside. Open-air Museum in Sierpc. Photo by A. Rybczyński

The riot of colors and the charm of the countryside are indisputable here.

a man and a woman are sitting on a wooden bench, there are 3 huts behind them, wildflowers of different colors grow outside the huts — Wonderful chamomiles, hollyhocks, marigolds, cosmoses. Open-air Museum in Sierpc. Photo by my dad :)

Historic church from Drążdżewo was built in 1744 as a “hunting chapel”. The church is one of the oldest preserved wooden sacral buildings in north-western Mazovia.

a woman is sitting on the stairs leading to a wooden church. The church is quite tall, wooden, with one belfry. — There are fewer and fewer such historic buildings. Open-air Museum in Sierpc. Photo by A. Rybczyński

an interior of the church, main altar in the background, wooden benches — The interior of the church. Open-air Museum in Sierpc. Photo by A. Rybczyńska

One of the two mansions - very well preserved.

the man is standing in front of the manor house, there is a garden in the shape of a circle between the man and the manor house, and a circular path around the garden — My husband invites you to Sierpc :) Photo by A. Rybczyńska

a black piano stands inside the manor, on the piano there is a Chopins piece — Do you want to play Chopin's piece? Open-air Museum in Sierpc. Photo by A. Rybczyńska

interior of a manor, there is a wardrobe with porcelain dishes, a chair, there is a violin on the chair — Historic interiors. Open-air Museum in Sierpc. Photo by A. Rybczyńska

a room decorated in a hunting style, antlers hang on the wall, there is a boar skin on the floor, a lighted lamp hangs, the furniture is wooden in a dark color — It looks like a hunting room. Open-air Museum in Sierpc. Photo by A. Rybczyńska

A proud rooster :)

the rooster is standing by the hut — I got you little one :) Open-air Museum in Sierpc. Photo by A. Rybczyńska

I like this landscape. I really do. I have great respect for the past and what is left of it.

the family is standing in front of the huts, both wooden huts, thatched roofs, tall birch trees behind the huts — Unusual thatched roofs. Open-air Museum in Sierpc. Photo by A. Rybczyńska

a cow is standing between two huts — Maciek is pointing a cow. Open-air Museum in Sierpc. Photo by A. Rybczyńska

Idyllic landscape…… nothing more nothing less :)

a landscape with peasant huts in the background, a boy is standing in the centre of the lawn — Children living in the city do not have much of a chance to see farm animals. Hence their great interest in animals. Open-air Museum in Sierpc. Photo by A. Rybczyńska

The manor from Uniszki Zawadzkie

the family is standing in front of the manor — 18th-century wooden manor house. Open-air Museum in Sierpc. Photo by A. Rybczyńska

The building is wooden, has log construction walls. Its interior is one-story, with a residential attic, with a wooden porch at the front. The charm of the building is added by a high, mansard roof with gables covered with shingles.

a manor — The relocation of the manor took place in 2011. Open-air Museum in Sierpc. Photo by A. Rybczyńska

a woman inside the manor — Inside the manor. Open-air Museum in Sierpc. Photo by A. Rybczyński

a woman is inside the manor, behind her there is folk furniture — Inside the manor. Open-air Museum in Sierpc. Photo by A. Rybczyński

a woman inside the manor, behind her there is old, black dress like an exhibition — Nice dress. Open-air Museum in Sierpc. Photo by A. Rybczyński

a farm with goats and beehives, two boys are standing by the fence against which the goat is leaning — Come on little one :) Open-air Museum in Sierpc. Photo by A. Rybczyńska

We are going to see the windmill

a landscape with peasant huts and a windmill in the background, the family is standing in the middle of a lawn — Great time spent outdoors. Open-air Museum in Sierpc. Photo by A. Rybczyński

a wooden windmill — The windmill in all its glory. Open-air Museum in Sierpc. Photo by A. Rybczyński

two kids are standing by wooden, colorful sculptures presenting folk figures in folk costumes — Attraction for kids. Open-air Museum in Sierpc. Photo by A. Rybczyńska

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