Museums

Peasant Homestead in Częstochowa

Just below Jasna Góra, in the Park im. Staszica in Częstochowa, stands a single-storey brick cottage that looks as if it had been moved here from the countryside. In fact it is the Peasant Homestead — a site of the Częstochowa Museum, built in 1908–1909 as a pavilion of the Industrial and Agricultural Exhibition, a model example of a peasant farmstead of those times.

A homestead that never was one

The design by Zdzisław Kalinowski and Czesław Przybylski reproduced the shape and details of a former peasant homestead: the building is single-storey, partly cellared, with an attic and a gable roof of timber construction covered with ceramic tiles. The museum stresses that it is not an open-air museum — the cottage was never inhabited; it was created as an artificial structure for the exhibition. In 2003 the building was secured against decay and later underwent a major renovation that restored its original character.

One ticket, several museums

Visiting is on a joint ticket with the Iron Ore Mining Museum, located in the same park — a replica mine arranged in underground corridors — and the Exhibition Pavilion from 1909. All three sites present the folk culture and history of the Częstochowa region on a scale you will not find in the city centre.

In practice

The address is 7 Kamienic Street 4; from the gates of Jasna Góra it is just a few minutes’ walk through the park. Opening hours: Monday–Thursday 9:00 am–5:00 pm, closed Friday–Sunday — plan your visit for the beginning of the week. Ticket prices are set by the Częstochowa Museum; the joint ticket covers both park pavilions.