Open-air museum in Bardejovske kupele - Slovakia
Short info
The open air museum is the oldest facility of its kind in Slovakia. It was opened in 1965. In the park and garden area of 1.5ha, in the ethno-park, there are 24 objects which represent folk culture and the building skills of two ethnic groups - Slovak and Rusin populations living in the Upper Saris and North Zemplin regions. They are from 19th and 20th Centuries and typologically classified as Carpathia-type wooden buildings. Four types of buildings can be found here:
Wooden residential houses - their most common varieties:
- house of a poor farmer from the village of Fricka, built in 1887,
- house of a poor farmer from Hrabova, Roztoky, from 1896,
- house of a middle farmer from Petrova from 1896,
- residential building of a small farmer from Malcov from 1899
- farmer's house from Kracunovce from the end of the 19th Century
Various functional buildings:
- granaries (from Petrov, Kracunovce, Malcov and Andrejova)
- barns (from Hankovce and Tarbaj)
- well
- blacksmith's workshop from Abrahamovce from the 1930s
- fruit dryer
- sty from Velkrop
- beehive with wooden beehives, the oldest dated beehive in Slovakia from 1691
Technical buildings:
- unique drilling equipment for the production of wooden (mainly pine) water pipes with a water drive, from Bardejov part of it from the 18th Century and from 1932, reconstructed in 1963
- technical device for domestic production of cloth - scrubbing board from Livov (which was used in processing woollen textile into thick cloth), part from 1888 and part from 1948
Sacred buildings:
- wooden church of Eastern ceremonies from the village of Zboj from 1766, moved to Bardejov Spa in 1967
- Bell tower with a gate from Nizny Orlik from 1763
- Bell tower from Nemcovce
- Chapel of St Jan Nepomuk from the second half of the 18th Century
- Greek Catholic wooden church from Mikulasova from 1730, reconstructed in 2005
The objects are furnished with furniture and tools corresponding to the period of the buildings. Outside the area of the open air museum, there is a small wooden church from Mikulasova, built in 1730, moved to the Bardejov Spa in 1931 and at present it belongs under the Saris Museum.
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