Branch of the Tatra Museum
Contact:
Jurgów 15
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:
a poor Spisz household. Ethnographic interior from the late 19th century.
The Sołtys Croft was built in 1861 by the great-grandfather of the last owner, Jakub Sołtys. The house was inherited by the successors of the Sołtys family. After World War II, part of the family moved to the newly built house. The old croft was bought in 1982 by the Tatra Museum in order to arrange an ethnographic exhibition there. The house and nearby buildings of the Sołtys family are an example of a poor Spisz household from the late 19th and early 20th century. A wooden croft consists of a residential house and utility buildings under one roof. There is one room in the Sołtys Croft – there the family slept, cooked meals, invited guests. The furnishing of the room is modest – it includes a stove (with open furnace in the past), a bed, a shelf for pottery, some benches and a table, over which glass paintings were hung in the past, later replaced by oil prints. The utility buildings include a wood shed, called a jata, a sheepfold, a playground and stables. In the living room, the visitors may see an interesting, unique Jurgów clothing from the late 19th and early 20th century. The pieces of clothing gathered in the poor croft presents the way of clothing of both wealthy and poor village residents. The collection of clothing in the Sołtys Croft enables us to see how the Jurgów clothing changed with time. Today, the traditional clothing is back again, worn especially during holidays or church celebrations.
