Přerov nad Labem

A Polabí village holding the oldest open-air museum in the country — a green of timbered cottages collected from the region since 1895.

Přerov nad Labem is where the Czech skanzen tradition began: the Polabské národopisné muzeum, founded in 1895 by Archduke Ludwig Salvator of Tuscany, then owner of the local estate, is the oldest open-air museum of folk architecture in the country. Today it gathers some forty buildings — timbered cottages, barns, granaries and a chapel — furnished with exhibitions on everything from bread baking to folk medicine. Open April to October (closed Mondays), with well-loved Easter and Christmas customs displays at the season edges.

The village around it keeps a chateau (not open) and a pub, and the flat Polabí paths radiate towards the Labe and the Kersko woods.