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LEMK’S COTTAGE AND FARM BUILDINGS IN OLCHOWIEC Olchowiec 23 Private property of Mr. Tadeusz Kie³basiñski. The cottage can be visited any-time during the day between April and November. Admission is free. Exposition in this one of not too many surviving Lemk’s cottages is named: “A historic Lemk’s cottage in Olchowiec – Collection of artifacts of the Lemk’s culture”. Included in the exposition are: cottages, and farming buildings, household equipment, farming tools and equipment, miscellaneous equipment. Separate section of the open-air museum covers the WWII remnants and artifacts found in the neighboring battle fields. Complementing the in-cottage exhibition is a collection of books on the Lemk’s culture: about 4,200 items! as well as an iconographic collection. Since 1990 the collection has been complemented by artifacts of the Hutsuls’ culture such as: traditional Hutsul clothing, art things made by Hutsuls (fabrics, embroidery, equipment), as well as periodicals and iconographic collections. Hutsuls are an ethno-cultural group of highlanders
who for centuries have inhabited the Carpathian mountains, mainly
in Ukraine, but also in the northern extremity of Romania (in
the areas of Bukovina and Maramureº), as well as in Slovakia and
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