Museums
At 1 Piastowska Street in Milówka, a few hundred metres from the market square, stands the oldest monument in this part of the Żywiec region. Stara Chałupa, as locals have called it for years, has the year 1739 carved inside one of its rooms and ranks among the most valuable examples of wooden folk architecture in the Silesian Voivodeship. The building lies on the Wooden Architecture Trail.
Today the cottage houses the local open-air museum run by the Municipal Cultural Centre in Milówka; until 1992 it was a branch of the Museum in Żywiec. The visit leads through an entrance hall with decorative pegged doors and a clay-beaten floor, a main room with the sooty opening of a bread oven and painted chests, and an alcove room hosting small temporary exhibitions. Farm tools hang in the hall, and a barrel-vaulted cellar waits by the entrance.
Wooden sculptures carved from tree trunks stand around the cottage — a good starting point for a short walk. The museum is open Tuesday to Saturday from 9:00 to 14:00; Mondays and Sundays are closed. A visit takes about half an hour.
Tripto tip: plan your visit for the morning — the museum closes at 14:00, and afterwards you can walk to the centre of Milówka.
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