Museum of Wooden Architecture of the Siedlce Region in Nowa Sucha

The picturesque open-air museum in Nowa Sucha has often been a film setting for full-length productions. Here the scenes of films were shot: Szatan z 7 klasy, Pornografia, Anna Karenina, Pan Tadeusz, Bitwa Warszawska, or the series Przeprowadzki and Boża Podszewka. There are still parts of scenery created for the needs of films, e.g.: a well, arbour, flowerbed with roses or the gate screened in Śluby Panieńskie.

The open air-museum covers an area of 10 hectares in the village of Nowa Sucha, picturesquely lying in the vicinity of forest, ponds and the Kostrzyń river. Visitors can see buildings brought from different parts of the Masovia Region.

The main attraction of the museum is a larch manor house built by a Livonian castellan, Ignacy Cieszkowski. In 1787, it was visited by the king Stanisław August Poniatowski. In 1814, August Cieszkowski was born there, a famous Polish economist and philosopher. Having been devastated after the period when it was managed by the local State Agricultural Farm (PGR), it was reclaimed by its current owner, prof. Marek Kwiatkowski, and it gained another life. It is a single-storey shingled building with a classical arcaded portico. The current interior design includes the 19th century furniture and paintings bought by the owner (some of the paintings were painted by the professor himself). Around the manor house there is a garden with a pre-war tree stand.

Other buildings in the area of the museum include: an ice house, manor house outbuilding, stable, wooden bell tower, chapel and a mansion with utility buildings from the mid 19th century brought from Siedlce. There is also a classical manor house from 1825, an organist’s house from Mokobody, a sheep house from Sadowne, a granary from Siedlce and a barn from Polkowo. All this is complemented with historic buildings: manege, vicar’s house, smock mill, granary, rectory, cottages. There is a rectory inn from Skrzeszew at the Bug River dating back to around 1900 and an inn and a town building from Mińsk Mazowiecki.

In addition to the manor house, inside one can visit a cottage from Łagodne (from 1888). It houses a peasant room and a chamber with different working tools and daily use equipment. Next to it, there is a house from 1860 from the village of Szaniawy-Matysy, where the last guerilla commander, chaplain-in-chief of the Uprising, priest Stanisław Brzóska, was hidden during the January Uprising. In the cottage there is a folk art exhibition.