The best museums Lublin

This open-air museum is a collection of preserved old houses, most of which date from the 17th century. Over the years, authentic reconstructed buildings have been added, transforming the hamlet into a very successful and atmospheric traditional village. In spring and summer, Skansen hosts folk festivals and re-enactments of old-fashioned rural life that are well worth a visit. We recommend it.

The building takes its atypical form from its origin as a simple (though rather massive) Jesuit church built in an effort to convert the Orthodox East at the time of the Catholic Counter-Reformation movement that the Jesuits led. While the exterior facade is austere, the interior decorations are superb, especially the paintings that adorn the walls and vaults, done in the second half of the 18th century by Josef Mayer, following a fire. The richness of the decorations testifies to the opulence of the bishopric and the city at that time.

The museum is housed in the former Gestapo prison, the "house under the clock". The exhibition is dedicated to the martyrdom of the Poles during the Second World War. It's a small exhibition, partly financed by the European Union. The building was the scene of the cruellest tortures. The cell windows were barricaded and covered with earth, and despite the thick walls, the screams of the tortured reached the cells. It is estimated that two hundred people were murdered in the two years of operation.