Section 4 of 6
Sanok
The open-air museum at Sanok — its founding, its collection, the Gwoździec proof-of-concept, and the Zabłudów frame now being cut there.
4 pieces in this section
SanokSanok Took Buildings Apart in Order to Keep ThemAn open-air museum founded in 1958 has saved more than a hundred timber buildings by moving them — and its approach to authentic reconstruction made it the right place for the Zabłudów work.Read the piece ⟶
SanokThe Gwoździec Roof Went Up TwiceThe wooden synagogue of Gwoździec stood in a small town that is today Husiatyn raion in western Ukraine, constructed most likely in the late seventeenth century.Read the piece ⟶
SanokWhy Rick and Laura Brown Cut the Joints by HandWhen Handshouse Studio — the American craft-education organisation founded by Rick Brown and Laura Brown — began work on the reconstruction of the Gwoździec synagogue roof, the question of tooling was not aesthetic.Read the piece ⟶
SanokA Visitor Stands Under It, Not in Front of ItThe reconstructed painted ceiling from the Gwoździec synagogue hangs at its original height inside the core exhibition of the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, which opened in 2014.Read the piece ⟶