The first buildings began to be constructed in 1976, and the open-air museum was opened to visitors 10 years later. Over the years, the exhibition has continuously expanded and been supplemented with additional objects to ultimately replicate a multi-road village. Currently, there are 15 interiors available for viewing, ranging from living rooms, through utility rooms and craft workshops, to rural industry.
The whole is complemented by numerous small architecture elements (a bread oven, dovecote, dog kennels). This presents a cross-section of the entire village community, from a poor cottager and moderately well-off smallholder to an innkeeper and wealthy Olęder settlers. All of this, together with abundant vegetation (gardens, trees, agricultural crops), aims to convey to visitors the character of the West Greater Poland village at the turn of the 19th/20th century.
