Open-air Museum of the Łódź Wooden Architecture

Open-air Museum of the Łódź Wooden Architecture

Coordinates: 51°44′43″N 19°27′42″E / 51.7452°N 19.4616°E / 51.7452; 19.4616

Open-air Museum of the Lodz Wooden Architecture
Skansen Łódzkiej Architektury Drewnianej
Open-air Museum of the Łódź Wooden Architecture is located in Poland
Location within Poland
Established 2008
Location Piotrkowska Street 282, 93 - 034 Łódź,  Poland
Type Wooden architecture museum
Director Norbert Zawisza
Website http://www.muzeumwlokiennictwa.pl/o-skansenie/
Church of Saint Andrew Bobola
Villa transported from Ruda Pabianicka
Weaver house transported from Wólczańska street number 68
One-storey house for workers, transported from Mazowiecka street number 61
House transported from Żeromskiego street number 68
Wooden tram-stop transported from Zgierz, near Lodz

Open-air Museum of the Łódź Wooden Architecture is an integral part of The Central Museum of Textiles in Łódź. It is located on the main artery of Łódź – Piotrkowska Street, next to the Władysław Reymont Park.

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History

The idea to establish an open-air museum detailing wooden architecture of the area belongs to Krystyna Kondratiukowa – the first director and the founder of the Central Museum of Textiles. This idea was not realized until 2002, when two architects, Anita Luniak and Teresa Mromlińska, won a tender for design. The museum was under construction from September 2006 until May 2008, and was finally open for visitors in September 2008.

Exposition

The collected objects are typical representatives of architecture in Łódź at the turn of the 19th-20th century. These specimens include a: church (transported from Nowosolna), summer villa (transported from Ruda Pabianicka), one-storey house for workers (from Mazowiecka street), wooden tram-stop (from Zgierz) and 4 craftsmen houses (from Żeromskiego, Mazowiecka and Kopernika Street). Additional elements such as lamps, well, signs with street names complete a reconstruction of realities of those times. The interiors of buildings are assigned for expositions (e.g. presentation of a craftsman house, a weaver workshop) and active craftsman workshops (ceramic, paper etc.). Visitors can purchase products made by manufacturers and take part in activities organized there.

Sources

[Information leaflet] The White Factory of Ludwik Geyer. Open-air Museum of Łódź Wooden Architecture, The Central Museum of Textiles, Łódź 2010, ISBN 978-83-60146-09-5

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