Beekeeping Open-Air Museum in Swarzedz / Skansen Pszczelarski w Swarzędzu My Fav Spot

Beekeeping Open-Air Museum in Swarzedz

Skansen Pszczelarski w Swarzędzu

Open-air museum in Swarzedz presents a collection on beekeeping and silk industry. In the museum you can take a look at the history of beekeeping, bees bred races, their anatomy, and the products manufactured by these beneficial insects. The museum has more than 200 hives, it is unique on the European scale collection. Constantly you can watch about 150, and some of them still inhabit the bee family. The oldest monument is a 700-year-old oak with beehive. Among them are figural beehives (for example with view of bears or St. Ambrose - the patron of beekeepers), architecture (miniature of Poznan opera and the town hall in Poznan and highland cottages), box, straw, hull and log, including extracted from Vistula honey dates back to the year 1474. Some objects in the museum are inhabited by bees. The exhibition is in a park planted in the 50s and 60s lindens, maples, chestnuts, oaks, robinias, willows and others rare plants. In 1999, in an estate farm building created a museum exhibition on beekeeping equipment and there was isolated plot showing honey-yielding plants. Museum also proposes: lessons self-contained made the candles, biology lessons about the life of insects, lessons about history of beekeeping, films about beekeeping and silk trade, lectures about the life of bees and many others.

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