Museum of Vladislav Orkan "Rabka-Zdruy"

Władysław Orkán Museum is located in Rabka Zdrój, Poland. The museum is dedicated to the life and work of the Polish writer Vladislav Orkan, and there are many exhibits in honor of one of the ethno-cultural groups of the Polish Gurals. The museum itself settled under the roof of a wooden church of the first half of the XVII century.

The Władysław Orkán Museum was opened in 1936 by the Polish Tatra Society. Several expositions of the museum display the cultural heritage of the Gurals living in the mountainous regions of southern Poland. Every year there is a series of exhibitions dedicated to the Gural and Orkan holidays.

Vladislav Orkan, after whom the museum in Rabka Zdruya was named, was an outstanding writer during his lifetime, he remained so after his death. His hand wrote many novels, stories, plays and poems. In his honor, not only the museum is named, but also several streets in many Polish cities. As a boy, he began his career, and a year after his death, his remains were buried in the cemetery of the deserved. In the Museum of Vladislav Orkan there are several exhibitions dedicated to his famous mother, Katarzyna Smrechinskaya.