Ekspozycja Parku Etnograficznego

The Toruń exhibition, located in the very centre of the city near the historic Old Town, is a unique museum of the open-air museum type in Europe. In a small park-like area, a variety of rural architecture is presented: cottages, farm buildings, a fire station, blacksmith's shop, windmill, watermill and a fishing barge. In total, there are 19 large objects of folk architecture here, which have been translocated from Kashubia, Bory Tucholskie, Kociewie, Kujawy, Chełmno and Dobrzyń lands. They come mainly from the 18th and 19th centuries, and are mostly original buildings - dismantled, relocated, conserved and reassembled in the park. They are complemented by small architecture, represented by 49 objects, including cellar-dwellings, outbuildings, wells, a dovecote, examples of various fences and flower and vegetable gardens, as well as roadside crosses and wayside shrines. All of this contributes to the rural character of the park and recreates the atmosphere of the village at the turn of the 20th century. The furnishings of the homesteads and the interiors of the buildings are everyday objects characteristic of the period and of the individual regions, taking into account their diversity resulting from the social and wealth status of their inhabitants. The interiors of the cottages display furnishings and furniture, images of saints, family, pilgrimage and pilgrimage souvenirs, family photographs, everyday and festive clothing and table settings. Farm equipment connected with breeding, cultivating the land, beekeeping, preparing food and household crafts is displayed on the farmsteads and in the interiors of the farm buildings. On church holidays, the homesteads, cottages and their interiors are decorated according to the occasion. During the summer season, demonstrations of traditional crafts, household and farm activities are organised in the park.