Jan Kochanowski Museum in Czarnolas

Manor complex surrounded by a park. Worth a look.

The museum was opened in 1961. The exhibition then included a hall and four rooms. From 1975, a branch of the District Museum in Radom. From mid-February 2020, an independent facility [1].The seat of the museum is the classicist, 19th-century Jabłonowski manor. It was designed by Jakub Kubicki. Rebuilt after a fire in 1904 by the next owner, Stanisław Zawadzki. A brick manor, plastered, one-story, on high basements. It houses the permanent exhibition of the museum.It is a biographical exhibition, occupying 6 museum rooms with an area of 250 m2. There are many editions of the poet's works, studies on his life and work, as well as some directly related mementos: an oak armchair with a coat of arms, covered with leather with an embossed pattern (kurdyban) and an iron door with the initials and the Korwin coat of arms, probably from a treasury burnt in the year 1720 of the poet's court.On the occasion of the 475th anniversary of birth in 2005, the Kochanowski chapel was renovated and new exhibitions were presented: "Rzeczpospolita Babińska" and "Mały Wawel".The manor complex is surrounded by a landscape park from the first half of the 19th century, designed by Józef Stich in the English style, rebuilt at the beginning of the 20th century by Stefan Celichowski.