LEMK CULTURE MUSEUM IN ZYNDRANOWA

Zyndranowa 1
38-454 Tylawa
tel. +48 13 433 07 12

e-mail: zyndranowa@op.pl
http://www.dukla.home.pl/archiwum/turystyka/zyndranowa/

Museum is run by the Association for the Promotion and Development of the Lemk Culture in Zyndranowa. Trying to save the culture, traditions, relics of buildings, and whatever survived until today of their history Mr. Teodor (Fedor) Gocz, with the help from a group of social activists organized in 1968 in a historic family farm a Chamber of the Lemk Culture Mementos. To create a collection took years, but thanks to pertinacity and dedication of Mr. Gocz and the Lemk community this Chamber of Mementos became a museum/open-air museum.
The museum group consists of: a dwelling/farming cottage, stable for horses, pigsty, house-community centre, pantry, windmill, chapel, gypsy forge, sawing track structure, well sweep and contemporary elements as: monument to the memory of the victims of Tallerhof and Jaworzno concentration camp. The historic objects go back to the end the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries. Authentic are the household equipment and farming tools, furniture, crafts products, traditional folk clothing, examples of the folk art. The Horse Stable houses an exhibition which includes mementos of the WWI and WWII, mainly arms, uniforms, military equipment. In the House-Community Centre presented is Lemk’s art, and around the Farm concentrated are folk sculptures, the effect of the open-air art workshops organized in the open-air museum. The Gypsy Forge houses an exhibition of tools and blacksmiths products. Outside the open-air museum one may visit a surviving old Jewish house, the only one surviving in this region of Poland, and admire a collection of the Judaica.

After years of functioning on volunteer basis as a non-profit institution in 1996 the museum was taken care of by The District Museum in Krosno however in 1999 it was deprived of this care and currently struggles with serious financial problems.
Every year the last Saturday and Sunday of July, the Association for the Promotion and Development of the Lemk Culture in Zyndranowa organizes on the grounds of the open- air museum a holiday of culture and tradition „Od Rusal do Jana” supported financially by the Ministry of Interior and Administration.
The museum is one of a kind in Poland, is visited by thousands of domestic and foreign tourists so is very popular. Its existence enriches culture of the nation and works as a unifying element for the Lemk diaspora.

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