The best walks and hikes around gmina Brok

The wooden house situated on the Bug River is a spatial manifestation of Open Form – an idea that Oskar Hansen made the axis of his architectural, artistic and didactic work. Since 2014, the house has been under the care of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, and at the end of 2017 it became a branch of the Museum. Source: https://archiwum.artmuseum.pl/pl/muzeum/szumin

The famous Szumin appreciated the great contribution to the cycling, travel and photography community of our colleague Michał aka Powsinogi, that he decided to name a street after him! Heartfelt congratulations!

On top of that, a nice and relatively clean shelter. A natural monument at the entrance.

At the beginning of May 2014, thanks to the efforts of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, the wooden house of Zofia and Oskar Hansen in Szumin was opened to the public. Located in Mazovia, in the picturesque old riverbed of the Bug River, it is a spatial manifesto of the idea of Open Form, which Oskar Hansen, a Polish member of Team 10, made the axis of his architectural work. The house, built since 1968, fully expressed these ideas, being one of the few works of the Hansens realized in accordance with their wishes, without the restrictions imposed by the socialist construction industry. The time-space architecture, smoothly connecting the interior and the exterior, contained within itself the element of change, easily adapting to the changing needs of its users. Built as a frame for life, it comes alive with the presence of people. The special atmosphere of the house is co-created by traces of the activities and passions of its inhabitants - didactic instruments placed around the house for learning the basics of composition; a steel structure from the 1977 Venice Biennale with vines climbing up it, and a wooden dovecote which Zofia Hansen considered to be her husband's most perfect work.

In addition to the fishing grounds near Szumin, Wywłóka is a mecca for Mazovian anglers from the surrounding area. From the stories of anglers we have met, pike, zander, asp and perch are the most desirable fish in these fishing grounds (although of course these are not the only fish that can be found there). But fish are a magnet, not only for anglers who fish for them here at different times of the year, also in winter, from under the ice. There are many more people willing to fish in this fish kingdom, in the form of numerous species of waterfowl, including such ornithological rarities as corncrakes, curlews, black-tailed godwits and sandpipers. In the vicinity of Szumin and Wywłóka, one can observe almost exemplary effects of the meandering of the Bug, which leaves behind old branches and small "lakes". These areas are subject to flooding in spring; backwaters are created that facilitate the movement of fish. That is why it is here, on the "bużyska", as the old riverbeds of the Bug are called, that you can observe many anglers trying to catch the golden crucian carp, which they call the "Japanese carp", or the tench, which likes to hide in the mud, in small, often overgrown reservoirs.

Quite nice, just before the floodgate lock, but a longer stop - better to do it behind the floodgate, already on the Bug River

A picturesque path along the slopes along the bank of the Bug River. It is located in the Bug Landscape Park.

The wooden house located on the Bug River is a spatial manifesto of Open Form - an idea that Oskar Hansen made the axis of his architectural, artistic and didactic work. Since 2014, the house has been under the care of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, and at the end of 2017 it became a branch of the Museum.