A manor house from the end of the 16th century, rebuilt in 1741, since 1969 a branch of Wawel Royal Castle with the interiors of a 19th-century manor.
The manor house in Stryszów is an old Polish noble manor, today a branch of Wawel Royal Castle (State Art Collections) and a museum of Polish manor interiors. It stands in Stryszów in Wadowice County and is entered in the heritage register.
The manor house was built at the end of the 16th century by Adam Suski. In 1741, as confirmed by the inscription Renovatum Anno Domini 1741, it was rebuilt from a defensive building into a Baroque country residence. In the 19th century Julian Gorczyński added a two-storey wing and laid out a nine-hectare park in the English style. After the Second World War the manor was taken over by a state farm and a school was housed here, and the building fell into serious disrepair. In 1958 it was taken over by the Wawel collections, which restored it, and in 1969 a museum was opened here.
The ground floor has sandstone walls, left over from the earlier building, and the upper floor was built of wood, stone and brick. Three outer walls had wooden balconies. The monument is dated to the 17th century, and brick is given as the material.
The interiors show the furnishing of a 19th-century town-and-country gentry manor. The most representative is the drawing room with fragments of the original 18th-century polychromy. There is also a dining room with a long table, chairs and a sideboard, the owner's study with farm papers and battle paintings, and a bedroom furnished with the dowry of the owner's wife.
About 5 km away is the shrine in Kalwaria Zebrzydowska, and in neighbouring Brody the church known as the Grobek.
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