The museum is located in the former Dohna Palace, which was built in several stages. Its oldest edge is the south-western corner section of the medieval fortified city wall with towers. Subsequent stages of construction from the 1560s up until the 1920s are related with the powerful and influential Duchy of Prussia noble family – the zu Dohna. Initially, the Dohna resided in a former...

Foksal Gallery was founded in 1966. The idea of founding a gallery with a focus on searching out and highlighting radical approaches to contemporary art, was developed by art critics, such as Wiesław Borowski, Anka Ptaszkowska, Mariusz Tchorek, and artists, including Tadeusz Kantor, Henryk Stażewski, Zbigniew Gostomski, Edward Krasiński and Roman Owidzki. Since its inception it has been...

The Museum of Warmia and Masuria in Olsztyn was founded in 1945. The institution is seated in a fourteenth-century Gothic castle built for the administrator of the Warmia Chapter’s estates. In the years 1516-1521, this function was performed here by Nicolaus Copernicus. To this day, on the gallery wall there remains a unique memento of his stay – a hand-made experimental astronomical table,...

The seat of the Regional Museum since 1981 is the former town hall in Kutno. The building in the classicist style was built between 1842 and 1845, according to the design of Bonifacy Witkowski, on a plot donated by the heir of the town, Felix Mniewski. In 1961, the former entrance gate was adapted as the lobby, in order to increase the functionality of the building. The renovation of the...

The mission of the Museum of the First Piasts at Lednica is to preserve in the collective memory the knowledge of the significance of Ostrów Lednicki and other Early Medieval strongholds in Greater Poland  from the period of the formation of the Polish state. It is also intended to provoke visitors’ interest in the history of Greater Poland’s countryside with its 19 th  c. positivist...

DESA - The Auction House and Gallery Ltd is the oldest company on the Polish art market, which has been continually in operation since 1950. We are not only a trading company but we also play an important role in culture-forming processes in Poland. We secure valuable works of art for museum collections and promote contemporary art and artists by organizing exhibitions both in Poland and...

The Research Library collects national and foreign publications in the field of history of art and culture (including materials related to non-European cultures – from the Far East, South America), archaeology, numismatics, museology, conservation, as well as all publications concerning Nicolaus Copernicus and Toruń. All books are obtained through donations, purchases and exchanges with...

The Star House is a unique historic building located in the heart of Toruń, in the Old Town Square. It is a tenement house which was first erected in the Middle Ages and rebuilt several times since its original creation. It contains elements of different eras – from the Gothic walls to a richly decorated Baroque façade – and contain a magnificent spiral wooden stairs decorated with figures of...

Located in the heart of the historic Old Town of Toruń, the Old Town Hall is not only one of the most important historic buildings in the city, but also one of the largest and most beautiful constructions of this type in Europe. Built on a square plan with an inner courtyard, it is a symbol of the Gothic Old Town Complex which became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997. For centuries, the...

The Museum of Medallic Art is the only place in Poland specializing in gathering medallic and phaleristic exhibits. Currently, its vast collection includes around 50 thousand medals, medallions, and plaques, as well as orders, distinctions, Polish and foreign (mainly European) military decorations. The Museum also owns rich documentation of the artistic output of Polish and foreign sculptors...