Penin Museum - Museum of Joseph Chalayan is located in a historic villa of the nineteenth century. Ethnographic exhibition clearly demonstrates the life of highlanders Penin in the early twentieth century.

Famous for its spa resorts in the Polish city of Szczawnica lying at the foot of Penin, owes its fame Hungarian family Shala came here in 1828. Ambition Joseph were huge, the publisher wanted to turn into a resort Szczawnica, which could compete with the European ones. On his initiative, a chapel was built here, the first bath, restaurant, guest house. He cared about the opening of drinking water sources - the "Magdalena", "John", "Simon," "Elena," "Angel."

After the death of Joseph Chalayan city became a popular resort, after World War I started coming here politicians, artists, poets, scientists. In 1919, anthropologist Szczawnica visited Constantine Klitnich-Eden, who immediately saw the need to save a dying culture while local mountaineers. Ethnographer made the first attempt to organize a museum in the city, but his efforts were in vain.

Only in 1957, after a meeting of the Friends of the Pieniny control such an idea was born again. Start collecting materials and exhibits for the future museum. Two years later, the city administration has allocated three rooms in the building of the railway station for the exposure. The grand opening of the museum took place in May 1959.

Three years later, a wooden building burned down, while the exhibition was moved to the historic villa "Palace", built in the nineteenth century. In July 1972, it took place on the reopening of the Museum of Penin. In 1982 the museum was named after Joseph Chalayan and joined the Local History Museum in Nowy Sacz.

The ethnographic section of the museum is a regional architecture and decoration of the details of the local homes. It also tells about the traditional costumes of the highlanders. Among the various exhibits in the section devoted to folk art, colorful posters are interesting houses, which once hung on them instead of numbers. The historical department of the museum introduces visitors to the history of the place and especially the development of the region. The museum also holds interesting exhibitions: "Szczawnica Czorsztynskie as part of the county," "The Second World War in Pieniny" and others.