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Reconstructed blacksmith’s shop from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries

Reconstructed blacksmith’s shop from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries

The exhibition was organised to commemorate the Museum’s 50th anniversary. Displaying equipment and blacksmith products gathered by the ethnography department this exhibition recreates the interior of a blacksmith’s shop from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Original old wooden logs and thick wide boards were used to construct the walls of the shop. Lack of front wall allows to see the interior and the exhibits, one of which is a centrally located anvil placed on a wooden block. A hearth with a wooden hood and blacksmith bellows was reconstructed in one of the corners and inside the room there are a number of vices, hammers, threaders, pliers, horseshoes, axes, hoes, sickles, fishing spears, choppers, door hinges, wagon fittings, sleigh fittings and chest fittings.

Many of the items manufactured by blacksmiths were decorated for utilitarian and aesthetic purposes. Ornaments were treated as a trademark and identification symbol in the event the item was stolen or lost. Stars and crescents ornaments were magical attributes meant to protect against evil spirits.

Tools and goods manufactured by blacksmiths from Krasnystaw region are displayed on the wooden shelves, tables, the anvil, hearth, walls, ceiling and the clay floor of the reconstructed chamber.

 

Author: Muzeum Regionalne w Krasnymstawie
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