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Sirogojno |
"Staro selo" (The Old Village) in Sirogojno, the Museum under the open sky is keeping and presenting a traditional architecture, the material and spiritual inheritance of Serbian mountainous village. About 50 original log cabins, with over 2000 samples are exhibited in one unique collection of village estates, with a great number of buildings, in natural surrounding, making the unique monumental complex. The Museum is open every day for the visitors, who can, through the stories of the guide or films, go into the forgotten and unknown world of the ancestors. The Museum under the open sky offers a meeting with houses and buildings of different assignments, things, estates tools, which were made in accordance with the real primeval needs of the mankind, by craftsmen, who are making things of soil and of wood by old tools, which are authentic national souvenirs. The construction of the Museum began in 1979, with the building of the log cabins to the chosen locations, near the Church of Saint Peter and Paul in the centre of Sirogojno village . There are 47 original buildings in the area of 5 hectares. The Museum complex with the church is under protection of law, as a cultural monument and it is proclaimed for a cultural treasure. Also, the Museum is a member of The European Society of Museums Under the Open Sky since 1990.
