District Museum in Toruń

Regional museum in Toruń, Poland

Toruń Regional Museum (Polish: Muzeum Okręgowe w Toruniu), located in the Ratusz hall of Toruń, is one of the oldest and largest museums in Poland. It started in 1594 as the mere Cabinet of Curiosities at the library of the academic Gimnazjum, called Musaeum in Latin. Re-established in sovereign Poland as a city museum in 1920 after the century of military partitions, it was administratively structured as the regional museum in 1965.^[1]

Departments

The Museum consists of 7 departments.^[2]

The headquarters and main department of the museum is located in the Old Town Hall. It is divided into:

• Skrwilno and Nieszawa Treasure
• Court Room (XVI-XVII century)
• Gothic Art Room (painting, sculpture)
• Old Toruń: History and Crafts (from 1233 to 1793)
• Sacral Art of Modern Toruń
• The Mieszczańska Room with one of the earliest portraits of Nicolaus Copernicus
• The Royal Hall
• Gallery of Polish Art
• Gallery of Polish Art (after 1945)
• Militaria (from antiquity to the twentieth century)
• Archaeological exhibition (from 1100 BC to 1300 BC)
• Temporary exhibitions

Other departments are:

• Copernicus House at the birthplace and childhood home of the famed astronomer at Kopernika 15/17 Street
• Museum of History of Toruń in the Esken House (Dom Eskenów) at Łazienna 16 Street
• Museum of Toruń Gingerbread at Strumykowa 4
• Toruń Fortress Museum at Wały Generała Sikorskiego 23/25 Street
• Museum of Far Eastern Art in the House Under the Star (Kamienica Pod Gwiazdą) at Rynek Staromiejski 35
• Tony Halik Museum of Travelers at Franciszkańska 9/11 Street

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  Copernicus House
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  Kamienica Pod Gwiazdą
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  Dom Eskenów
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  Tony Halik Museum of Travelers
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  Museum of Toruń Gingerbread

Collection

The Museum's holdings include works by Marcello Bacciarelli, Artur Grottger, Piotr Michałowski, Juliusz Kossak, Józef Brandt, Jan Matejko, Henryk Rodakowski, Józef Chełmoński, Julian Fałat, Leon Wyczółkowski, Stanisław Wyspiański, Jacek Malczewski, Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Wojciech Weiss, Józef Mehoffer, Konrad Krzyżanowski, Ferdynand Ruszczyc, Jan Cybis, Zbigniew Pronaszko, Piotr Potworowski, Antoni Fałat, Edward Dwurnik, Zdzisław Beksiński, and Jerzy Duda-Gracz.^[3]

Gallery

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  Retable with Virgin Mary, St. Barbara and St. Catherine, Master of the Góra Passion, after 1510
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  Toruń Gingerbread baking mould with city's coat of arms, 17th century
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  Skrwilno and Nieszawa Treasure, between 1615 and 1617
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  Skrwilno and Nieszawa Treasure, circa 1600
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  Gothic stained glasses from St. Mary Church in Chełmno, XIV century
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  The Torun Portrait of Nicolaus Copernicus (anonymous, c. 1580), kept in the Town Hall^[a]
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  Portrait of Nikolaus Hübner, Counsellor of Thorn, Bartlomiej Strobel, 1644
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  King Boleslaus I of Poland, Jan Bogumił Jacobi, 1828
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  Second Peace of Toruń, Marian Jaroczyński, 1873
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  Portrait of an Old Lady by Kazimierz Wojniakowski
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  Lithuanian Swamps Under Snow by Henryk Weyssenhoff
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  Angel, Jan Matejko, 1889
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  Julia Janiszewska, Kazimierz Stabrowski, 1902
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  Portrait of Eugenia Dunin-Borkowska, Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, 1913

See also

• National Museum of Poland
• Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (Poland)
• Centre Of Contemporary Art in Torun

References

1. Rys historyczny (Historical draft) Muzeum Okręgowe w Toruniu. (in Polish)
2. "District Museum in Torun". Culture.pl. Retrieved 2019-05-06.
3. Perły z lamusa : najcenniejsze zbiory Muzeum Okręgowego w Toruniu. Rubnikowicz, Marek,, Skowroński, Andrzej Roman, 1949-, Bielińska-Majewska, Beata,, Muzeum Okręgowe w Toruniu. Toruń: Muzeum Okregowe w Toruniu. 2009. ISBN 9788360324301. OCLC 953676106.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
4. André Goddu, Copernicus and the Aristotelian Tradition (2010), p. 436 (note 125), citing Goddu, review of: Jerzy Gassowski, Poszukiwanie grobu Mikolaja Kopernika in: Journal for the History of Astronomy 38.2 (May 2007), p. 255.

Footnotes

1. The oldest known portrait of Copernicus is that on Strasbourg astronomical clock, made by Tobias Stimmer c. 1571–74. According to the inscription next to the portrait, it was made from a self-portrait by Copernicus himself. This has led to speculation that the Torun portrait may be a copy based on the same self-portrait, but its provenance is unknown.^[4]

External links

• Official Website
  • Departments Archived 2019-04-27 at the Wayback Machine
  • Opening times Archived 2014-04-14 at the Wayback Machine
• Online Auction House

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