Branch of the Tatra Museum
Contact:
Chochołów 75
www.muzeumtatrzanskie.pl
Opening hours
Wednesday – Sunday, 10.00 a.m. – 2.00 p.m.
Tickets:
normal PLN 6.00,
discount PLN 4.50
Permanent exhibition:
1846 Chochołów Uprising in ethnographic interiors from the half of the 19th century.
The exhibition in the Chochołów Uprising Museum is a memorial of the event from 1946, called Chochołów “poruseństwo" (uprising). Opened in 1978, the Chochołów Uprising Museum is located in a historic village house owned by a wealthy landlord, Jan Bafia in the past. The interior design tries to combine the history of the uprising with ethnographic exhibition presenting the life of the Gorale families in the half of the 19th century. All the rooms of the historic house contain boards composing the historic part of the exhibition. There is a cartouche with the Chochołów timeline and weapons used by the participants of the uprising. Texts, reconstructed documents and illustrations show the past traditions of the royal village of Chochołów. The exhibition also presents the figure of Seweryn Goszczyński, a poet and conspirator connected with the Tetmajer family from Łopuszna. To present a broader historical background of the Chochołów Uprising, the course of the 1846 Kraków Revolution and preparations for the Chochołów Uprising are presented together with information on its leaders, documents, list of participants and the outcome of the “poruseństwo" – repressions imposed by the partitioner. The Chochołów Uprising, although merely a short episode in the history, is still vivid in the memory of the village residents.
