Skansen in Sanok

Museum of Folk Architecture in Sanok - the first and largest ethnographic museum in Poland in terms of the number of collected objects established after the Second World War. The ethnographic park covers an area of 38 ha.

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At present, there are about one hundred and fifty wooden construction objects from the 17th to the 20th century in the Museum of Folk Architecture. Among them are: residential, commercial and residential buildings, public utility buildings (including a school), as well as industrial facilities (including forge and oil facilities). Particularly noteworthy is sacred architecture: a seventeenth-century Roman Catholic church dedicated to Saint. Mikołaj Cudotwórca from Bączal Dolny and the Greek Catholic churches - eighteenth-century: Church of the Nativity of Bogurodzica from Grąziowa and the Orthodox church of St. Onufry Hermit of Rosolina and the nineteenth-century Church of the Nativity of the Mother of God of Ropki.

Architectural objects are located in separate sectors, each of which is devoted to a different ethnographic group: Doliniakom, Pogórzanom and ethnic: Lemks, Bojkom. The purpose of this layout of the space was to give the visitors the impression that they are in the village of one of the mentioned groups.
The Museum of Folk Architecture was established in 1958, thanks to the involvement of the then provincial conservator, Jerzy Tur, and the first director of the facility, Alexander Rybicki.
Today, the museum has a rich archive and specialized library.

While in the Sanok Museum, it is worth seeing collection of icons from the period from the fifteenth to the twentieth century. The collection has over two hundred and twenty items and is available to visitors as part of a permanent exhibition entitled "Carpathian icon". It is located in one of the historic buildings (a brick house from Nowosiółek near Baligród) in the Dolinian sector. The exhibition, one of the largest in Poland, was designed in such a way that it would be possible to look at the stylistic and iconographic transformations of the sacred art of the Eastern church in the region. Presented icons were collected in the 1960s.