Kolbuszowa

While strolling around the open air exposition you can learn about the culture of the ethnographic groups of Lasowiacy and Rzeszowiacy once inhabiting the areas today constituting the northern part of the Podkarpackie region. The museum is situated amidst fields, meadows and forests; in the vicinity there is a water reservoir, so the place looks like an authentic village. On display here are approximately 80 structures of wooden architecture, including cottages, barns, granaries, a grist mill, windmills, as well as utensils, tools and other artefacts representative of the daily life of the Lasowiacy and Rzeszowiacy people. The oldest buildings here are the granary from Bidzin dating from 1784, a hut from Markowa from 1804 and a church from Mielec-Rzochów from 1843.

The town hosts an event called Spinacz Festival featuring performances of well-known Polish musicians and bands.

Worth seeing:

Museum of Folk Culture

• parish church of All Saints, from the mid-1700s

• presbytery from the first half of the 1800s

• neo-Gothic tomb chapel of the Tyszkiewicz family built in 1892

• old synagogue from the mid-1800s (originally built in 1739)

• old town hall from 1926, today home to a police station

• municipal well

• building formerly housing Sokół Gymnastic Society from 1908

• small town buildings from the 19th and early 20th century

• villas from the early 20th century (Rzeszowska Street)

• Jewish cemetery (approximately 200 matzevahs)

• relics of fortifications of Lubomirski castle

• relics of a manor house and park complex

• shrine of St. John of Nepomuk

Photo: Archive of the Municipal Office in Kolbuszowa