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Mazowiecka Village Museum

It is an open-air museum and is located in the suburbs of Sierpc in the valley of the Sierpienica River and its confluence with the Skrwa River.Though it looks like a separate and independent village because of its great area (about 60.5 hectares) and because it is fenced, the museum is included within the town's borders.Everything was collected from different regions of Masovia.The architecture of houses reminds that from 19th or early 20th century.Also inside the houses there are pieces of furniture, utensils, equipment and hand-made decorations which are appropriate to the epoch.Each season there are exhibitions devoted to traditional Masovian customs i.e."Christmas in Mazovie Region", "Easter in Mazovie Region".Also children can find something interesting for them : "Palm Sunday in Skansen museum", "Sunday in Skansen museum", "Cooking in the middle of the glade", "Children's Day in Skansen museum", "Honey harvest in Skansen museum" or "Harvest season in Skansen museum".A few movies have used the museum as a location.The most famous are: Pan Tadeusz, Ogniem i mieczem and Szwadron.

City Public Library in Sierpc

consists of Agenda: Bicycle, Reading, Department for Children, Department of Special Collections.The library has an extensive collection of regionaliow, which consists of all materials on Sierpc and county Sierpc, ie books, magazines, regional and local folders, documents of social life.The facility carries a rich cultural activities: promotions sierpeckich publications, meetings with authors, exhibitions, lectures, installations verbal and musical, literary and recitation competitions, fairs books.The library also runs publishing activity.As part of the series "Library Sierpecka" appeared so far sierpeckich ten books of authors, of a local.

Church of St. Vitus

Roman Catholic Gothic - Baroque church in the Old Town in Sierpc, between the streets Farne, Bishop Florian and Benedictine.Assumption Parish was probably already in the eleventh century.Tradition gives the date 1003 year.Pleban is mentioned in the 1449th The present brick church dates from the fifteenth century.The first temple in this place was built on the ruins of pagan chramu of the tenth century.The church expanded and restored by Andrew Sieprskiego in 1569.Destroyed by fire in 1630 and 1648.Transformed in the eighteenth century.After the fire of 1794, only rebuilt in 1844.Completely renovated after the war (during World War II the building served as a German magazine) in 1952.The last renovation took place in 2005-2007.

Church of Holy Ghost

The church was built in the 16th century.At the beginning it was a chapel near a hospital.The church was built in the Gothic style and later rebuilt in Baroque style.A fire in 17th century destroyed the church completely and after second rebuilt it lost its original form.The most valuable relic, not only of church but of the town are pieces of paintings from the Middle Ages and a sculpture from the 16th century "Generosity's Throne" made by Stwosz's pupils.Now it's in main altar.

Kasztelanka manor house

The manor house was built at the turn of the 17th and 18th century and, undoubtedly, it is one of the most important monuments in the Sierpc area and the oldest architectonic laic object in the town.It is a timber house with a thatched roof.There are plenty of mysterious legends and stories about "Kasztelanka" and the adjoining Benedictine monastery which is connected to it via a corridor.The monastery is more massive and solid, indicating it may have had a defensive purpose, perhaps against a Swedish attack.

November - February

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