Maria Znamierowska-Prüfferowa’s Ethnographic Museum

There’s a place in Toruń, where in one moment you can leave the city bustle and find yourself in the quiet Polish countryside. You can experience it by visiting the Ethnographic Museum located in the very center of the city. There, in the charming open-air museum you will see various objects of rural architecture. Museum is filled with old cottages, farm buildings, a fire station, a forge, a windmill, a water mill and a fishing barge. The rural atmosphere is complemented by dugout cellars, flower gardens, roadside crosses and home shrines. With its architecture, interior design and occasional arrangements, the Ethnographic Park exhibition reflects the image of the village at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. In one word - a real idyll! The museum offers also the permanent exhibition "Secrets of everyday life. Folk culture and its indication from Kujawy to the Baltic Sea (1850-1950)", presenting the everyday life of people living in villages and small towns of nearby ethnographic regions: Kujawy, Chełmno Land, Kashubia, Tucholskie Forests, Kociewie, Pałuki, Dobrzyń Land and Krajna. It also presents an issues related to identity, regional identification and attachment to the so called "small homeland".