Toruń Regional Museum (), located in the '' Ratusz'' hall of

Toruń Toruń is a city on the Vistula River in north-central Poland and a World Heritage Sites of Poland, UNESCO World Heritage Site. Its population was 196,935 as of December 2021. Previously, it was the capital of the Toruń Voivodeship (1975–199 ...

, 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 () in order to confirm the high level of its cultural activity and the importance of its collection. Only those museums th ...

. 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 Sovereign Poland (, SP), also known as United Poland (; alternatively translated to Solidarity Poland), until 2023, was a Catholic-nationalist political party in Poland led by Zbigniew Ziobro. It was founded in 2012, as the Catholic-nationalist ...

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. The headquarters and main department of the museum is located in the Old Town Hall. It is divided into: * Skrwilno and Nieszawa Treasure * Court Room (XVI-XVII century) * Gothic Art Room (painting, sculpture) * Old Toruń: History and Crafts (from 1233 to 1793) * Sacral Art of Modern Toruń * The Mieszczańska Room with one of the earliest portraits of

Nicolaus Copernicus Nicolaus Copernicus (19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543) was a Renaissance polymath who formulated a mathematical model, model of Celestial spheres#Renaissance, the universe that placed heliocentrism, the Sun rather than Earth at its cen ...

* 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 Other departments are: * Copernicus House at the birthplace and childhood home of the famed astronomer at Kopernika 15/17 Street *Museum of History of Toruń in the Esken House (''Dom Eskenów'') at Łazienna 16 Street *Museum of Toruń Gingerbread at Strumykowa 4 * Toruń Fortress Museum at Wały Generała Sikorskiego 23/25 Street *Museum of Far Eastern Art in the House Under the Star (''Kamienica Pod Gwiazdą'') at Rynek Staromiejski 35 * Tony Halik Museum of Travelers at Franciszkańska 9/11 Street Torun kamienice ul Kopernika 15 i 17.jpg, Copernicus House Torun apartment house under the star2.jpg, Kamienica Pod Gwiazdą Torun Czerwony Spichlerz.jpg, Dom Eskenów Torun_ul_Franciszkanska_9.jpg, Tony Halik Museum of Travelers Muzeum Toruńskiego Piernika.jpg, Museum of Toruń Gingerbread

Collection

The Museum's holdings include works by

Marcello Bacciarelli Marcello Bacciarelli (; 16 February 1731 – 5 January 1818) was an Italian-born painter of the late-baroque and Neoclassicism, Neoclassic periods active in Poland and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Biography He was born in Rome, and stud ...

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 partitions of Poland, despite a life cut short by incurable illness. B ...

, Piotr Michałowski,

Juliusz Kossak Juliusz Fortunat Kossak (15 December 1824 – 3 February 1899) was a Polish historical painter and master illustrator who specialized in battle scenes, military portraits and horses. He was the progenitor of an artistic family that spanned fou ...

Józef Brandt Józef Brandt (1841 in Szczebrzeszyn – 1915 in Radom) was a Polish painter best known for his paintings of battles in Polish history. Life Brandt studied in Warsaw in the school of J.N. Leszczynski and at the Noblemen's Institute. In 1858 he ...

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,

Józef Chełmoński Józef Marian Chełmoński (7 November 1849 – 6 April 1914) was a Polish painter of the Realism (art movement), realist school with roots in the historical and social context of the late Romanticism in Poland, Romantic period in partitioned Pol ...

Julian Fałat Julian Fałat ( Tuligłowy, near Lwów, 30 July 1853 – 9 July 1929, Bystra Śląska) was one of the most prolific Polish watercolorists, one of the country's foremost landscapists, and a leading impressionist. Life Fałat studied at the ...

Leon Wyczółkowski Leon Jan Wyczółkowski (; 11 April 1852 – 27 December 1936) was a Polish painter and educator who was one of the leading painters of the Young Poland movement, as well as the principal representative of Polish Realism (arts), Realism in art of ...

Stanisław Wyspiański Stanisław Mateusz Ignacy Wyspiański (; 15 January 1869 – 28 November 1907) was a Polish playwright, painter, poet, and interior and furniture designer. A patriotic writer, he created symbolic national dramas accordant with the artisti ...

Jacek Malczewski Jacek Malczewski (; 15 July 1854 – 8 October 1929) was a Polish symbolist painter who was one of the central figures of the patriotic Young Poland movement. His works combined the predominant style of his time with historical motifs of Pol ...

, Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz,

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 mu ...

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, Jan Cybis, Zbigniew Pronaszko, Piotr Potworowski, Antoni Fałat, Edward Dwurnik,

Zdzisław Beksiński Zdzisław Beksiński (; 24 February 192921 February 2005) was a Polish painter, photographer, and sculptor specializing in the field of dystopian surrealism. Beksiński made his paintings and drawings in what he called either a Baroque or a Go ...

, and

Jerzy Duda-Gracz Jerzy Duda-Gracz (March 20, 1941 in Częstochowa – November 5, 2004 in Łagów, Świebodzin County, Łagów) was a Polish people, Polish painter. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków in 1968. His work was exhibited in over 187 ...

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 ; , formerly also ) 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 importance ...

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

'' (anonymous, c. 1580), kept in the Town Hall Strobel Nikolaus Hübner.png, ''Portrait of Nikolaus Hübner, Counsellor of Thorn'', Bartlomiej Strobel, 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 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, 1902 Witkacy E Dunin Borkowska.jpg, ''Portrait of Eugenia Dunin-Borkowska'', Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, 1913

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