Edited by IPC Prešov | Košice and Žilina Regions
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Description of the place
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.
A place in the movie
A wooden village from an open-air museum was a very popular destination for filmmakers in the past. Many filmmakers showed typical wooden houses from Orava to give a real picture of life in the Orava countryside. In addition to photos from the church, many films used footage shot on individual streets of the open-air museum. The internal and external shots of individual huts take the viewer back to the past and give a full picture of the cultural customs of the region. The filmmakers tried to capture in panoramic shots the beautiful nature in the open-air museum.
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