photo Anna Drzewiecka

The main exhibition of the Museum of Kielecka Village is the Ethnographic Park in Tokarnia, which is located on the E77 route leading from Kielce to Cracow. In the picturesquely located in the Czarna Nida river bend over 70-hectare area, the most treasured vintage buildings from the turn of the 18th and the19th centuries wooden architecture from the territory of the Świętokrzyskie Mountains, the Krakowsko- Częstochowska Upland, Sandomierska Upland and Nidziańska Basin have been gathered. These are e.g. homesteads, small-town buildings, a manor house, farm buildings, country industry monuments and sacred buildings. The most interesting places to visit are: the manor house in Suchedniów dating from 1856, the manor granary in Złota built in 1719 and the baroque Church dating from 1761 dedicated to the Madonna of Consolation of Rogów on the Vistula. Interiors of the nineteenth-century cottages and craftman’s workshops, the chemist’s, the small shop and the tailor’s, the exhibition of a village school from the interwar period, the collection of sculptures on the exhibition called To preserve for posterity. Jan Bernasiewicz - the creator of the sculpture garden as well as temporary exhibitions, e.g. Wheat is being ground... Windmills and wind milling on the Land of Kielce... are displayed. The Museum organises numerous cyclic folk events, such as The Fireman Picnic (in May), Smelting of Lead, The Forest Days and Świętokrzyski Agrotouristic Fair (in June), The Harvest Festival (in August), The Sunday in the Open-air Museum (in September), The Christmas Fair (in December), etc.

The Museum of the Kielecka Village
Ul. Jana Pawła II 6
25-025 Kielce
phone: +48 41 344 92 97, 344 50 06
fax. +48 41 344 50 08

Tokarnia Heritage Park
Tokarnia 303 k. Chęcin
phone: +48 41 315 41 71

Opening hours:
November - March:
9.00 - 15.00 Tuesday - Sunday
Monday - close
April:
9.00 - 16.00 Tuesday - Sunday
Modnay - close
May - June:
9.00 - 18.00 Monday - Sunday
July - August:
10.00 - 18.00 Tuesday - Sunday
September:
9.00 - 17.00 Monday - Friday
10.00 - 18.00 Saturday - Sudnay
October:
9.00 - 17.00 Monday - Friday
10.00 - 17.00 Satudray - Sudnay

Ticket prices:
April - October:
- full ticket 10 PLN
- half-price ticket 5 PLN
November - March
- full ticket 6 PLN
- half-price ticket 3 PLN

Tourist Information Point in Chęciny
ul. Staszica 3
26-067 Chęciny
phone: +48 41 315 18 29
www.checiny.pl

Information can be obtained in The Regional Center of Tourist Information
ul. Sienkiewicza 29
25-007 Kielce
phone: +48 41 348 00 60
e-mail: informacja@swietokrzyskie.travel