There is a building called The Gardener’s Lodge in the castle park in Sucha Beskidzka. The Ethnographic Department of the Town Museum of Sucha Beskidzka is located there and it was established in 2010 due to the fact that this institution received a collection from the Association of the friends of the Sucha Beskidzka region which was later supplemented.

The Museum is located in the south-eastern wing of the renaissance castle also called the Little Wawel Castle. There are also other departments there such as – historical, educational, promotional and digitization studio. Permanent and temporary exhibitions are organized here as well as academic conferences, competitions (e.g. history and geography contest on cultural heritage called “Save from oblivion – Sucha Beskidzka and its surroundings”). The Museum does publishing work as well and participates in all kinds of activities in town such as The Sucha Beskidzka Culture Fair. An electronic record of shrines on the Museum’s website seems to be a very interesting initiative.

Ethnographic exhibition refers to the everyday life of the highlanders from the Babia Góra and Żywiec regions. Everyday life objects and handcraft tools, as well as farming machines, are on exhibition here. You can find here items like over 200-year-old renovated loom or a scutching mill. Everything is theme set. There is also a shepherd’s hut and examples of the local religious art. The visitors’ attention is especially drawn to wooden figures called “bucałki”. They are made of one piece of a birch tree block in which fragments of the bark are preserved together with deformations of a tree. The name of the figures is derived from the name of the artist who made them – Marian Bucała.

Muzeum Miejskie Suchej Beskidzkiej – Domek Ogrodnika
34-200 Sucha Beskidzka, ul. Zamkowa 1
tel. (+48) 33 874 26 05
e-mail: muzeum@sucha-beskidzka.pl
www.muzeum.sucha-beskidzka.pl