The Franciszek Kotula Ethnographic Museum occupies the old town hall annexe on the western side of the Market Square and is the most rewarding museum in Rzeszów. The permanent collection covers folk culture across the Subcarpathian region — the costumes, embroideries, woodwork, and ritual objects of the rural Polish, Ukrainian Lemko, and Boyko communities who lived side by side in this corner of Galicia until the population transfers of the 1940s.
The reconstructed peasant interior — the painted box bed, the loom, the icon corner — gives a vivid sense of the life that was wiped out. A side gallery covers urban Jewish craft from Rzeszów's prewar community. Visits are quick (an hour) but worthwhile, particularly before a trip to the Lemko villages of the Bieszczady.