In the historical open-air museum, where a remarkable number of original buildings have been moved, some reconstructions give the past a new life.
The historical open-air museum shows some reconstructed buildings from the medieval times onwards.
A medieval Slavic village, with houses and the wooden enclosure, was built with funds from the municipality of Ladek. Gród słowiański w Lądzie nad Wartą.
The (re)construction of the medieval slavic village yearly hosts a cultural festival. Gród słowiański w Lądzie nad Wartą.
The circular wooden fence in Suraż hosts some reproductions of typical early medieval huts which remind the ones used by its inhabitants from the 9th to the 14th century AD.
A medieval style enclosed village is used during events with living history demonstrations.
The wooden arena was first designed at the beginning of the years 2000 and later founded by an Interreg programme by the EU.
Grod is a medieval style arena in which leisure, historical as well as "contemporary" can find its place.
In 1968 six wooden buildings, built with the caractheristic techniques of the region, were moved to the museum grounds to be protected from the planned flood due to the dam construction.
The castle, which dates back to XIII cent. AD and six wooden buildings of the newer era, are the buildings accross which the museum exhibition is hosted.
Będkowice, created on the place of early medieval settlement, consisting of ancient defending settlement and barrow cemetery (8th – 9th century), about 50 hectares large.
Hillfort in Będkowice, located on top of the hill called Sokola Góra, is one of the best preserved hillforts in this area. Two rings of banks and ditches are still perfectly visible, however whole area of the hillfort is covered by forest now.
The external bank was larger, with 15 m of width, while the internal one was 7 m wide. The excavations inside the hillfort brought many interesting finds including arrow points and pottery and uncovered remains of late medieval tower build in the place of the hillfort.
Experiments performed in Starachowice, like many others ŚSDP1 activities,are a continuation of research on ancient metallurgy in the Holy Cross Mountains which was initiated nearly 60 years ago by Kazimierz Bielenin (Bielenin 2006) and Mieczysław Radwan (Radwan 19
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