The best museums Nowy Sącz

This ethnographic park, or skansen, is a superb reconstruction of a rural village divided into four sections, each dedicated to the architecture and ethnic groups that inhabit the region. There's an ^18th-century wooden Orthodox church, farmhouses, a manor house and examples of gypsy encampments. Folklore events are held regularly during the summer months. Also worth seeing is the reconstruction of an Eastern Galician village (same opening hours, 16 zl).

Located on the east side of the Rynek, in a beautiful 16th-century house, this museum is the main one of the complex making up the regional museum of the city of Nowy Sącz and presents a significant collection of objects and works of art from the 14th century to the present day. In particular, it includes representative objects of craft and folk art (painting and sculpture related to the so-called Łemkowie people), Orthodox art, watercolors by Nikifor Krzynicki and temporary exhibitions.

The synagogue was built in 1746 on the site of an earlier wooden synagogue, and rebuilt in the 19th century after a fire. This beautiful former place of worship is the only surviving synagogue from the Nazi exactions in the city. During the Second World War, it was located inside the ghetto that the Nazis had created in Nowy Sącz. Rebuilt in the 1970s, it has long housed a gallery whose collection commemorates the city's Jewish population.