Tatra Museum in Zakopane

The Korkosz Croft in Czarna Góra
The Museum of Spisz Folk Culture


address: Czarna Góra, Za Górą 86
Oficjalna strona Muzeum Tatrzańskiego: www.muzeumtatrzanskie.pl

The Korkosz Croft is situated near the church, at the road leading from Trybsz to Jurgowo. It gives an interesting insight into the development of the Spisz croft from a late 19th-century two-building complex consisting of a cottage and a stable to a multi-building croft on a rectangular plan. Early in the 1920s the croft came into possession of the well-to-do Korkosz family who added a stone stable and a cart-house in the 1930s. In the former stable the owner built a wooden treadmill, the first in the village. Another extension was the 'master's chamber', probably intended for the guests.
In the 1950s the Korkosz family moved to Czechoslovakia, and the deserted croft gradually fell into desrepair. In 1980 the owners conferred it to the treasury suggesting that a museum of Spisz folk culture should be created in it. The complex was renovated by the Tatra Museum and an exhibition of an affluent household of the Spisz region between the World Wars was mounted in the interiors. The exhibits making up the furnishings of the cottage and the farm buildings were purchased in Czarna Góra. In one of the interiors utensils for flax-processing are on display. An exhibition of folk costume is also interesting.
The Korkosz Croft -- 'black room' -- kichen The Korkosz Croft -- 'white room'
Zbigniew Ładygin ysladyg@cyf-kr.edu.pl
Last update 2 June 2002