Szlaki województw śląskiego i opolskiego

The Opole Village Museum in Opole-Bierkowice is an open-air museum where – in farmsteads assigned to specific social groups – one can see wooden cottages with home gardens and orchards, barns, pigsties, and granaries, as well as public utility buildings such as windmills, a church, a school, an inn, or a smithy. The open-air museum is divided into subregions containing buildings dating from the 18th to the 20th century, from different parts of the Opole region, i.e., in the southern part there are objects from the vicinity of Nysa, in the central – from Opole, and in the northern – from Olesno. The oldest object in the open-air museum is a wooden church from Gręboszów dating from the first half of the 17th century with an original, Late Renaissance pulpit and a polychrome altar in the style of Netherlandish Mannerism and wooden peasant epitaphs dedicated to prematurely deceased children. Also noteworthy is the cottage from Sternalice, in which there is a room arranged as a village classroom and a teacher's apartment. Furniture and equipment present the typical furnishing of Opole village schools, while the teacher's room was equipped with furniture made in an urban carpentry workshop. In turn, in the inn, one can see, among others, advertising boards of Silesian breweries, a beer counter, and a billiard table with a mushroom. The adjacent room is arranged as a shop from before World War II, with original branded cabinets from Dr. Oetker and Knorr. The Castle of the Silesian Piasts was chosen as one of the 7 New Wonders of Poland in the plebiscite of National Geographic Traveler magazine. A unique attraction is the possibility to see how an old mill wheel is set in motion. The water mill is integrated into an artificial watercourse that surrounds the area of the open-air museum. The open-air museum is possible to visit all year round, however, the interiors of the objects can be viewed only in the spring-summer months. Practical information: Admission: Monday: 10 AM - 3 PM, Tuesday-Friday from 10 AM - 5 PM, Saturday-Sunday from 10 AM - 6 PM. In the period from mid-October to April, the park area is made available from Monday to Friday from 10 AM to 3 PM. Paid admission. On Mondays, admission to the museum is free of charge. Allow 2-3 hours for visiting the museum. Access from Opole is possible by city bus line no. 9. Details: https://www.mzkopole.pl/rozklady/linia-9.html Free parking for passenger cars