Zuberec, Orava Village Museum

The open-air museum, which is also called the Orava Village Museum, is located in the Western Tatras. The facility was opened to the public in 1975, but construction began in 1967. Most of the buildings were purchased, demolished and re-erected in the open-air museum. The remaining buildings were built as copies of the original buildings to preserve a true image of the entire Orava region. We can find here residential and farm buildings (houses, farms, chambers, sheds, huts, shepherds' huts), craft buildings (blacksmith's cellar, pottery kiln) and technical buildings (mill, oil mill). The wooden church of St. Elizabeth from the 15th century towers over the museum. The picture of life in Orava is also presented to the visitors through the ethnographic exhibition, breeding domestic animals and cultivating crops.