Wallachian Open Air Museum

**Valašské muzeum v přírodě**
	; Church in the Wooden City
Data
place	Rožnov pod Radhoštěm
Art	open air museum
opening	1925
Website	http://www.vmp.cz/de/

The Wallachian Open-Air Museum (Czech Valašské muzeum v přírodě ) is an agricultural and folkloric open-air museum in Rožnov pod Radhoštěm in the Czech Republic . It consists of four parts; the Wooden Town, the Mill Valley, the Wallachian Village and the Pustevny Mountain Huts .

history

Mill Valley

The museum goes back to the brothers Bohumír and Alois Jaroněk from Malenovice near Zlín , well-traveled artisans: porcelain painters, photographers, painters and graphic artists . They were stimulated by the Czechoslovak Ethnographic Exhibition in Prague in 1895, the most attractive and most remarkable part of which was the exhibition village with the Wallachian settlement, by the Millennium Exhibition in Budapest in 1896 with popular buildings from all of Hungary at the time, and by Alois' trip to Scandinavia with visits to the emerging one Museum of the city of Aarhus in Denmark, today's Norsk Folkemuseum in Oslo and the oldest open-air museum Skansen near Stockholm .

Foundation of the museum

In 1909 the two brothers settled in Rožnov and founded a museum association in 1911, the first museum planned for 1913 was prevented by the First World War. The museum was finally founded after the war. The museum location was the spa park next to the river on the outskirts of the city. In 1925 the first two houses were on the market square and the first folklore festival, entitled Wallachian Year, took place in the new open-air museum. This was followed by the 16th century Vašek Inn, a copy of the Velké Karlovice Bailiwick. The end of this expansion phase was the wooden church built during the Second World War based on the plan of the church from Větřkovice , which burned down in 1887. These parts of the museum today form the so-called wooden town .

Extensions

Wallachian village

The second stage was the Wallachian Village project . The reconstruction of a Wallachian village with around 40 objects was made in the 1960s on the mountainside above the park with the wooden town. From 1983 the third section began with the construction of the mill valley with mills, saws, fulling and hammer mills. The buildings also attest to the integration of these technical objects into the rural social structure and show the life of the workers in the countryside at the hammer mill.

Inclusion of the mountain huts

Pustevny, Maměnka

The fourth area of the museum - called Pustevny - is made up of a group of artistically designed mountain huts, which were built for summer and winter visitors in the course of the emerging tourism in the Beskydy around 1900 and were used as such until the 1990s. In the end, they were structurally in poor condition. In 1995 Pustevny was declared a national cultural monument and the management of Pustevny was given to the Wallachian Open Air Museum. The buildings were restored and opened to the public again from 1998 to 2003. During the night from March 2nd to 3rd, 2015 the "Libušín" hut burned down. For this reason, the property is not accessible until further notice.

Living museum

Reconstructed tolerance prayer house

The museum sees itself as a living museum . Farm animals are kept and gardens are maintained on the museum grounds. Sheep are kept and cheese is produced at the alpine hut. 60 independent events are held over the course of the year under the name Wallachian Year . The respective folk customs are cultivated on church holidays. On some festivals and public holidays, Roman Catholic and Orthodox as well as Protestant services are held in the reconstructed tolerance prayer house in St. Anne's Church . Handicraft demonstrations, programs for children and several museum festivals spread over the year round off the program.