Toruń Fortress Museum - The District Museum in Toruń

The District Museum in Toruń intends to expand to include a new branch – the Toruń Fortress Museum. It will be created in the Barracks of the Chełmno Gate located next to the city’s Bus Station. Currently, the building is undergoing renovation and construction works. The opening of the Toruń Fortress Museum is planned for 2020.

The historic Toruń Fortress was a multidimensional creation and it remains multifaceted even from a modern point of view, as a piece of cultural heritage consisting of numerous material objects, including foremost the remaining buildings, items and documents, as well as memories concerning the events related to the fortress, and modern uses of the fortress’s objects along with their cultural contexts.

The main goal of creating the Toruń Fortress Museum in the building of the former fortress barracks is to ensure that the remnants of one of the best preserved fortresses in Europe arenot forgotten by the society. The museum will present the history of the fortifications, from the Middle Ages to the mid-twentieth century, as well as the history of one of the largest military garrisons in Poland during the inter-war period.

Various exhibition rooms will showcase all types of fortress objects from Toruń, including also mock-ups, models and computer visualisations. The exhibition will be complemented with original items, including pieces of equipment, weapons and uniforms of soldiers from various historical periods.

The Toruń Fortress Museum will focus not only on the history of military architecture, but also on the history of the city and its surroundings, the influence of the fortifications on the area’s development and the fights conducted in and around the Toruń fortifications.

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