Muzeum Lokalne w Łąkorzu

About the museum

Jan Ostrowski, a local farmer and to this day the museum’s curator, founded the Local Museum in Łąkorz in 1995. The collection began with farm machinery, but was soon enriched with everyday objects, tools and souvenirs of life in the old villages of the Lubawa Land. The museum is run by the Association for the Protection of Nature and Cultural Heritage, and the Gmina Biskupiec is its patron.

The heart of the museum is an approximately two-hundred-year-old village cottage, which houses a living room from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries with a kitchen and a traditional stove known as a westfalka, while the attic has been recreated as a former village post office. Next to it stands a forge, handed over by the gmina in 1996, with a blacksmith’s workshop, and an open-air collection of machinery and equipment for growing and processing grain.

Around the museum a “mill village” is developing under the motto “Od ziarenka do bochenka” (From Grain to Loaf): a restored nineteenth-century Dutch-type windmill, a bread room, a forest room, an apiary and a forest education point. The association also organises events, including the Lubawa dialect festival, a bread festival, fairs and competitions.

Highlights

• Two-hundred-year-old village cottage with a living room and a former post office in the attic
• Bread room and forest room as permanent exhibitions
• Forge with an exhibition of blacksmith’s tools and products
• Open-air collection of farm machinery and equipment
• Dutch-type windmill in the “mill village”

Permanent exhibitions

• Izba chlebowa i leśna izba – Permanent exhibitions in the old cottage on bread, village life and the forest, together with a living room from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.
• Kuźnia – Reconstructed forge with a blacksmith’s workshop and an exhibition of tools and blacksmith’s products.

Founded

1995

Operated by

Stowarzyszenie Ochrony Przyrody i Dziedzictwa Kulturowego w Łąkorzu

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Kids & families

Great for kids & families

• Family tours & workshops

The association organises workshops, competitions and outdoor events for families, and the offer includes a forest education point.

Getting there & parking

The museum is in the centre of the village of Łąkorz at number 120, near the shop, on the right-hand side of the road.

Amenities & dining

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