AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITY RUN BY OPEN-AIR MUSEUMS IN POLAND

The discussed issue relates to one of the legal aspects of the operations of open-air museums, namely them running agricultural activity. The specificity of this group of museums and their character make them not only museums in the understanding of the Act on Museums of 21 November 1996, but also farms to which regulations of broadly conceived agricultural law apply. What is more, the animals raised at museums require regular veterinary care, and its provision should be secured by the institutions’ directors. These are all questions that do not stem directly from the Act on Museums, hence, among others, numerous problems faced by museum curators. The paper is accompanied by tables and diagrams containing the results of a survey conducted by the Author among curators from open-air museums meant to display the legal challenges they have to face on a daily basis in their works. The paper constitutes a pioneer study of these problems, since they have not as yet been analysed in Polish literature.