The Cultural Reality of Pomerania in the Past and Today

In the Slupsk Castle Mill, a part of the rich ethnographic collection of the Central Pomerania Museum is presented on a permanent exhibition occupying the lower and middle floors.

Part of it represents the culture of the region's former indigenous population—including the Kashubians, the Slavs, the Krajniaks of Złotowo, the inhabitants of Jamno and Łabusz. The second part consists of souvenirs of settlers who came to Pomerania after 1945 from Kurpie, Opoczno, Łowicz, Rawa Mazowiecka, as well as the Vilnius, Grodno, Polesie and Southern Borderlands—from near Lviv and Stanisławów. The ground-level exhibition presents the culture of the people who lived in Pomerania up to 1945: furniture from country cottages, religious paintings, household utensils, documents and old photographs. A great deal of information can also be gleaned from Rudolf Hardow's map of the Słupsk administrative district, created in the 1930s.