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Open-air museum Zubrnice

Interesting Facts Coin no. 212
In the uniquely located village in the hilly landscape of the Bohemian Central Uplands, there is a set of valuable folk architecture buildings, where timbered, half-timbered and brick buildings stand side by side. Interior and exterior exhibitions are presented in several buildings.
The village square, dominated by a Baroque well from 1695, was transported from Střížovice near Ústí nad Labem. Agricultural Homestead No. 61 – a timbered two-storey building is part of a complex of buildings reminiscent of the life and work of people on the farmstead. Village Shop – a brick two-storey house built in the middle of the 19th century with an exhibition of an old village shop with many valuable details.
Water mill – a small water mill with a top drive fed from the Luční stream. The residential house itself is a two-storey timbered building with a timbered extension – a mill.
Railway station – a technical monument built to the local railway Velké Březno – Úštěk in 1890.
In 1997, an exhibition of the old village school was opened.
In the open church of St. Mary Magdalene, there are occasional exhibitions.
The youngest open-air museum in Bohemia, its foundation is an old historic village in the wedge of the hills of the Bohemian Central Highlands. The most valuable buildings of the centre of the village and its surroundings are used for museum purposes, which are continuously supplemented with small transported objects. The public is open to the public in a complex of timbered farmsteads with interior and exterior exhibitions, including a unique hot-air fruit dryer. There is also an exhibition of the village school, an old shop and a church with regular exhibitions. In the middle of the village square there is a transferred Baroque well and not far below the village there is a small railway station with a museum exhibition of transport. On the former cancelled line, occasional museum operation is planned in the lower section of Velké Březno – Zubrnice. Nearby, upstream, there is a small timbered water mill.