Peasant Farmstead Open-Air Museum in Łęczyca

A dozen or so minutes on foot from the Romanesque collegiate church in Tum, in Kwiatkówek near Łęczyca, stands a farmstead recreating the rural world of the Łęczyca land at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The open-air museum, opened in 2013 as a branch of the Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum in Łódź, has gathered here wooden buildings relocated from various localities together with a fully furnished cottage.

Windmill, cottage and smithy

The heart of the complex is a post windmill built around 1820: it first worked in Kwiatkówek, moved to Zawada in 1900, and operated until 1957. Inside runs an exhibition on wind milling from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. Beside it stand a cottage from Chorki with two rooms and a passage hall under a straw hip-and-valley roof, plus a smithy from Porszewice, an oil mill from Mszadla and an earthen cellar dated 1848.

In the farmyard

The farmstead is completed by a well with a sweep, a potter's and a bread oven, wooden fences and flowers and herbs, including mallows, recalling an old village garden. In the kitchen room you will see a stove with an iron plate and hood, a chimney with a bread oven and a white-tiled stove. The setting offers a view of the Romanesque collegiate church in Tum, half a kilometre away.

In practice

The museum is open from April to October, with free admission on Tuesdays; tickets cost PLN 9, concessions PLN 6 and a family ticket PLN 24. The car park in front of the museum is free of charge and an inn stands nearby. The visit combines easily with the collegiate church in Tum and the castle in Łęczyca, 1.8 km away.