Centre of Wicker Crafts in Rudnik nad Sanem

In its operation it focuses on preserving the 140-year long traditions of the craft and on promoting local products and the town as the Polish capital of wicker weaving. It is located in a building from 1890 and holds permanent historical, archaeological and ethnographic exhibitions, as well as temporary presentations of wickerware and artistic wickerwork; it also houses an art gallery. Visitors can find out here about the intricacies of weaving, participate in wicker weaving workshops and in annual outdoors wicker weaving sessions, and even admire here wicker jewellery and wicker fashion shows.

Places worth seeing nearby:

• Exposition of collections at the Parish of Holy Trinity,

• Statue of Ferdynand Hompesch – “father” of basket weaving in Rudnik,

• Figure of the Holy Mother from 1902,

• Figure of St. John Nepomuk,

• 19th century town buildings,

• classicist mansion and landscaped park from the 18th century,

• grist mill from 1905, today groats mill 

Photo: K. Zajączkowski