Toruń Regional Museum ( pl, Muzeum Okręgowe w Toruniu), located in the ''

Ratusz A ''Ratusz'' () (german: Rathaus; russian: Ратуша, ''Ratusha''; lt, Rotušė) is a historic administrative building in countries that adopted the Magdeburg rights such as the Holy Roman Empire, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and others ...

'' hall of

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, is one of the oldest and largest

museums in Poland The Minister of Culture and National Heritage of Poland may inscribe a Polish museum into the National Register of Museums ( pl, Państwowy Rejestr Muzeów) in order to confirm the high level of its cultural activity and the importance of its co ...

. 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.Rys historyczny (Historical draft)
Muzeum Okręgowe w Toruniu.

Departments

The Museum consists of 7 departments. * Copernicus House * Dom Eskenów * Twierdzy Toruń Museum ''(planned)'' *Museum of Toruń Gingerbread * House Under the Star * Old Town Hall **Skrwilno and Nieszawa Treasure ** Court Room (XVI-XVII century) ** Gothic Art Room (painting, sculpture) ** Old Torun: 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 * 9 Franciszkańska Street (

Tony Halik Tony Halik, born Mieczysław Antoni Sędzimir Halik (January 24, 1921 – May 23, 1998) was a Polish film operator, documentary film-maker, author of travel books, traveller, explorer, and polyglot (speaking Spanish, English, French, Portuguese, ...

Museum) CopernicusHouse.jpg,

Copernicus Nicolaus Copernicus (; pl, Mikołaj Kopernik; gml, Niklas Koppernigk, german: Nikolaus Kopernikus; 19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543) was a Renaissance polymath, active as a mathematician, astronomer, and Catholic canon, who formulat ...

birthplace (ul. Kopernika 15, ''left''). Together with the house at no. 17 (''right''), it forms the ''Muzeum Mikołaja Kopernika'' Torun_Ratusz_Staromiejski_2010_03_04_7189.JPG, Old Town Hall,
''Rynek Staromiejski 1'' Torun06StuccoFacade.JPG, Kamienica Pod Gwiazdą,
''Rynek Staromiejski 35'' 603128 Toruń Czerwony Spichlerz.JPG, Dom Eskenów,
''Łazienna 16'' Torun_ul_Franciszkanska_9.jpg, Tony Halik Museum,
''Franciszkańska 9/11'' Muzeum_Toruńskiego_Piernika.jpg, Museum of Toruń Gingerbread,
''Strumykowa 4''

Collection

The Museum's holdings include works by

Marcello Bacciarelli Marcello Bacciarelli (; 16 February 1731 – 5 January 1818) was a Polish- Italian painter of the late-baroque and Neoclassic periods. Biography He was born in Rome, and studied there under Marco Benefial. In 1750, with the recommendation of t ...

Artur Grottger Artur Grottger (11 November 1837 – 13 December 1867) was a Polish Romantic painter and graphic artist, one of the most prominent artists of the mid 19th century under the foreign partitions of Poland, despite a life cut short by incurable ill ...

Piotr Michałowski Piotr Michałowski (July 2, 1800 – June 9, 1855) was a Polish painter of the Romantic period, especially known for his many portraits, and oil studies of horses. Broadly educated, he was also a social activist, legal advocate, city administr ...

Juliusz Kossak Juliusz Fortunat Kossak ( Nowy Wiśnicz, 15 December 1824 – 3 February 1899, Kraków) was an Austrian Polish historical painter and master illustrator who specialized in battle scenes, military portraits and horses. He was the progenitor of a ...

Józef Brandt Józef Brandt (1841 in Szczebrzeszyn – 1915 in Radom) was a Polish painter, a representative of the Munich School, best known for his paintings of battles. Life Brandt studied in Warsaw in the school of J.N. Leszczynski and at the Noblemen's ...

Jan Matejko Jan Alojzy Matejko (; also known as Jan Mateyko; 24 June 1838 – 1 November 1893) was a Polish painter, a leading 19th-century exponent of history painting, known for depicting nodal events from Polish history. His works include large scale ...

Henryk Rodakowski Henryk Hipolit Rodakowski (; 1823–1894) was a Polish painter. Biography He came from a well-known family of lawyers. Continuing the family tradition between 1841 and 1845, he studied law in Vienna. Later he studied painting under Joseph Danha ...

Józef Chełmoński Józef Marian Chełmoński (November 7, 1849 – April 6, 1914) was a Polish painter of the realist school with roots in the historical and social context of the late Romantic period in partitioned Poland. He is famous for monumental painti ...

Julian Fałat Julian Fałat, (30 July 1853 in Tuligłowy near Lwów – 9 July 1929 in Bystra Śląska) was one of the most prolific Polish painters of watercolor and one of the country's foremost landscape painters as well as one of the leading Polish im ...

Leon Wyczółkowski Leon Jan Wyczółkowski (; 24 April 1852 – 27 December 1936) was one of the leading painters of the Young Poland movement, as well as the principal representative of Polish Realism in art of the Interbellum. From 1895 to 1911 he served as pro ...

Stanisław Wyspiański Stanisław Mateusz Ignacy Wyspiański (; 15 January 1869 – 28 November 1907) was a Polish playwright, painter and poet, as well as interior and furniture designer. A patriotic writer, he created a series of symbolic, national dramas withi ...

Jacek Malczewski Jacek Malczewski (; 15 July 1854 – 8 October 1929) was a Polish symbolist painter who is one of the most revered painters of Poland, associated with the patriotic Young Poland movement following a century of Partitions. He is regarded as the ...

Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (; 24 February 188518 September 1939), commonly known as Witkacy, was a Polish writer, painter, philosopher, theorist, playwright, novelist, and photographer active before World War I and during the interwar period. ...

Wojciech Weiss Wojciech Weiss (4 May 1875 – 7 December 1950) was a prominent Polish painter and draughtsman of the Young Poland movement. Weiss was born in Bukovina to a Polish family in exile of Stanisław Weiss and Maria Kopaczyńska. He gave up mus ...

Józef Mehoffer Józef Mehoffer (19 March 1869 – 8 July 1946) was a Polish painter and decorative artist, one of the leading artists of the Young Poland movement and one of the most revered Polish artists of his time. Life Mehoffer was born in Ropczyce, ...

, Konrad Krzyżanowski,

Ferdynand Ruszczyc Ferdynand Ruszczyc (1870–1936) was Polish painter, printmaker, and stage designer. He was a member of the aristocratic Ruszczyc de Lis family. Biography Born in the village of Bohdanów (then Russian Empire, now Belarus), Ruszczyc spent hi ...

Jan Cybis Jan Cybis (16 February 1897 - 13 December 1972) was a prominent Polish painter and art teacher. Biography Cybis was born in Fröbel (now Wróblin, Opole Voivodeship, Poland) and studied at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, se ...

Zbigniew Pronaszko Zbigniew () is a Polish masculine given name, originally Zbygniew . This West Slavic name is derived from the Polish elements ''Zby-'' (from ''zbyć, zbyć się, or pozbyć się'', meaning "to dispel", "to get rid of") and ''gniew'', meaning "ang ...

, Piotr Potworowski, Antoni Fałat, Edward Dwurnik, Zdzisław Beksiński, and Jerzy Duda-Gracz.

Gallery

Master_of_the_Góra_Passion_Retable_with_Virgin_Mary_(detail)_03.jpg, ''Retable with Virgin Mary, St. Barbara and St. Catherine'', Master of the Góra Passion, after 1510 Toruń Gingerbread baking mould with city's coat of arms.jpg, Toruń Gingerbread baking mould with city's coat of arms, 17th century Toruń - Muzeum Okręgowe - Naczynie do ablucji 01.jpg, Skrwilno and Nieszawa Treasure, between 1615 and 1617 Anonymous Chain set with precious stones (detail) 03.jpg, Skrwilno and Nieszawa Treasure, circa 1600 Gothic stained glasses from St. Mary Church in Chełmno.jpg, Gothic stained glasses from St. Mary Church in

Chełmno Chełmno (; older en, Culm; formerly ) is a town in northern Poland near the Vistula river with 18,915 inhabitants as of December 2021. It is the seat of the Chełmno County in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship. Due to its regional impor ...

, XIV century Nikolaus Kopernikus.jpg, ''The Torun Portrait of

Nicolaus Copernicus Nicolaus Copernicus (; pl, Mikołaj Kopernik; gml, Niklas Koppernigk, german: Nikolaus Kopernikus; 19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543) was a Renaissance polymath, active as a mathematician, astronomer, and Catholic canon, who formulat ...

'' (anonymous, c. 1580), kept in the Town Hall Strobel Nikolaus Hübner.png, ''Portrait of Nikolaus Hübner, Counsellor of Thorn'',

Bartlomiej Strobel Bartholomeus Strobel the Younger or Bartholomäus in German or Bartlomiej in Polish (11 April 1591 (baptised) – after 1650) was a Baroque painter from Silesia, who worked in Prague, Silesia, and finally Poland, where he emigrated to escape th ...

, 1644 Jan Bogumił Jacobi - Bolesław Chrobry.jpg, ''King Boleslaus I of Poland'', Jan Bogumił Jacobi, 1828 Marian Jaroczynski II Pokoj Torunski MO Torun.jpg, ''Second Peace of Toruń'', Marian Jaroczyński, 1873 Wojniakowski Portrait of an old lady.jpg, ''Portrait of an Old Lady'' by

Kazimierz Wojniakowski Kazimierz Wojniakowski (1771/72, Kraków – 1812, Warsaw) was a Polish painter, illustrator and Freemason, known primarily for his portraits in the sentimentalist style. Life and work He was a pupil of Marcello Bacciarelli."Wojniakowski, Kazimie ...

Weyssenhoff Lithuanian swamps under snow.jpg, ''Lithuanian Swamps Under Snow'' by Henryk Weyssenhoff Jan Matejko - Głowa anioła 1889.jpg, ''Angel'',

, 1889 Kazimierz Stabrowski 1.jpg, ''Julia Janiszewska'',

Kazimierz Stabrowski Kazimierz Stabrowski (November 21, 1869, Kruplyany – June 10, 1929, Garwolin) was a Polish painter, and director of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. He also founded the first lodges of the Theosophical Society in Poland.Karolina Maria Hess ...

, 1902 Witkacy E Dunin Borkowska.jpg, ''Portrait of Eugenia Dunin-Borkowska'',

, 1913

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