What to See in Krosno - Top Sights and Attractions

Craft Museum in Krosno - a museum based in Krosno. The museum is a town organizational unit and its seat is the "House under the Clock". - a tenement house from the turn of the 19th and 20th century.

The building housing the museum was built for Michal Miesowicz, a watchmaker and clock maker. Between 1901 and 1938, the building housed the First National Tower Clock Factory, which produced 280 mechanisms. The idea of opening a Craft Museum was born at the beginning of the 1980s in the circles connected with the Krosno Miscellaneous Crafts Guild. The originators of the idea were Jozef Cisowski and Tadeusz Bochenek. In 1980, the Board of the Guild asked the Krosno authorities to hand over the building. The request was met with a positive response and, after the tenants had been evicted, the renovation work started, which lasted from 1984 to 1987. A lot of construction work was done directly by Krosno craftsmen. After their completion, the facility was opened in 1990. Parallel to the renovation works, the collection of exhibits began. Many of them were donated by craftsmen from the town and its surroundings, as well as by the town authorities and the Rzeszów Crafts Chamber.

The basic exhibition of the museum is the one entitled "The History of Crafts of South-Eastern Poland". "It presents exhibits connected with the history of such crafts as carpentry, smithery, watchmaking (together with exhibits connected with the history of the building), tailoring, weaving, shoemaking with saddlery and saddlery, hairdressing and millinery. Moreover, a chest from the seventeenth century, constituting the former guild treasury, is exposed.

Since 2006, the museum has had a Cellar under the Shadows on Market Square 5, which is used for temporary exhibitions. The institution also makes the Farna Tower - the bell tower of the Holy Trinity Collegiate Basilica - available for visiting.

The museum is a year-round facility, open except Mondays from October 1 to April 30 and daily from May 1 to September 30. There is an admission fee.

The Podkarpackie Museum in Krosno was established in 1954 as the Regional Museum of PTTK, in 1958 it became a state institution under the name Museum in Krosno, and since 1975. - The Regional Museum. In 2000, it adopted its present name.

It is located in the Old Town, at 16 Pilsudski Street, in the historic building of the former Bishop's Palace. The museum has the following sections: archaeological, historical, artistic, history of lighting, history of glass and the glass industry, educational and promotional, administrative and economic, financial and accounting, and library.

The Museum has the following permanent exhibitions: History of lighting - one of the world's most valuable collections of kerosene lamps, Animated past - archaeological exhibition, From the history of Krosno and the region, In the circle of Krosno artists of the 19th and 20th centuries. - Gallery of Krosno Art, Glass of Podkarpacie Glassworks

In Trzcinica near Jaslo is located the Archaeological Open Air Museum "Karpacka Troja", which is a division of the Podkarpackie Museum in Krosno.

The open-air museum opened June 24-25, 2011.