A painter is building a small traditional museum moving a hundred year old homes piece by piece

We have a traditional heritage whose origins are lost in the darkness of the times, so why let it waste into oblivion? This is probably what the manager of this traditional museum thought to himself.

This museum is built near my city. At the moment it only has one stone church and five houses but that is not the important bit here.
The important part is the story behind each rock, each piece of individual wood that makes the buildings and most importantly it's about the passion of a few men that don't want to let small pieces of history go to waste.
These houses are not replicas of similar houses from lost villages. These houses are bought sometimes from 200-300km away. Every piece of wood, every stone is numbered, then loaded into an old pick-up truck and transported here. Sometimes they make up to 20 round trips to transport all the pieces of the house.

After all the pieces are unloaded they sort everything out and start rebuilding. The museum is not yet completed. The process is very slow. Searching of a house takes a long time. It has to be well over 100 years and has to tell a story, it has to be piece of history. The manager is the one who does all the research, he travels hundreds of km to see the houses, he decides if a house is worthy of his little museum. He is a painter and everything he sales he puts back into the museum so people like you and me can visit a piece of the past...for free.

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