Galician Town, Nowy Sącz

The Galician Town is a reconstruction of a fragment of a small town development consisting of a small market square and frontages with several houses. The town presents the atmosphere of small towns in the former Austro-Hungarian Monarchy province at the turn of the 20th century. The western frontage of the market square is occupied by the town hall, which is also used as a hotel and conference centre. The ground floor houses the reception area, a café and an exhibition hall; there is a reading room and a spacious main hall on the upper floor. Two burgher’s houses from Stary Sącz are situated next to the town hall. A photographic atelier and a clockmaker’s workshop have been arranged in one of them; the other houses a potter’s shop and a printing shop. Behind the town hall is a manor house from Łososina Górna that is home to the museum’s specialist library. The fire station, always an essential architectural feature in villages and small towns, remains so today.. The one reconstructed in the Galician Town displays carts, helmets, pike poles, extinguisher hoses and water pumps. The buildings at the market square house a gift shop and an antiquarian bookshop, a workshop of an artisan producing wooden decorations and toys, a stylish retro pharmacy, a dental surgery, the workshop of a Jewish tailor, a patisserie and a post office among other things. A separate exhibition commemorates non-professional sculptors and painters from Paszyn, a well-known folk art centre. There is also an inn that serves regional cuisine at the Galician market square.


 
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