Salonik prof. Marii Znamierowskiej-Prüfferowej

Professor Maria Znamierowska-Prüfferowa was the creator of the Ethnographic Museum, functioning from January 1, 1959, as an independent institution, transformed from the Ethnographic Department of the Museum in Torun. Organizing the department soon after her arrival from Vilnius, in 1946, Maria Znamierowska-Prüfferowa planned from the beginning to create an independent museum, as well as an open-air museum. She led to the establishment of the Museum, was its director until her retirement in 1972. She maintained contact, cooperation with the Museum until the end of her life. She made a testamentary decision to donate to the museum "scientific and all items needed to set up a permanent commemorative exhibition on the intersection of cultures," as she personally formulated it, and which from the beginning was understood to be a biographical exhibition dedicated to her. The professor's rich personality, numerous interests, contacts with well-known, interesting people are reflected in a legacy of more than 50 linear meters of files, still being organized and compiled. In June 2008, on the 110th anniversary of her birth, a permanent exhibition dedicated to the Museum's founder was opened. In a cozy room in the Arsenal, items from a small, crowded apartment at 15 Krasinsky St. were collected, so the exhibition included a piano, distinctive furniture from chechotka, fabrics, paintings, and a great many trinkets.