MNG Department of Ethnography
Established in 1958, the branch of the National Museum in Gdansk has been located in the historic Abbey Granary in the city's scenic Oliwa Park since 1966. Its holdings include objects related to the culture of the settlers who inhabited the Zulawy region up to 1945; a collection of non-European artefacts, including weapons, sculptures, ceramics and ornaments from Africa, South America and Oceania; a collection of objects, photographs and archival material brought by people resettled from the former eastern borderlands of the Second Polish Republic; and a collection of ethnographic artefacts from the regions neighbouring Gdansk Pomerania.
The most valuable of the 10,000 exhibits undoubtedly includes a collection of eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth century folk furniture and arts and crafts, mainly from Gdansk Pomerania: Kashubia, Kociewie, Żuławy, Powiśle and Bory Tucholskie. The permanent exhibition Folklore of Gdansk Pomerania is also worth seeing, featuring collections on fishing, agriculture, breeding and households. In addition to this, the Granary also hosts temporary exhibitions on the folk culture of various regions of Poland and non-European peoples, as well as educational workshops for schools and kindergartens.
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Established in 1958, the branch of the National Museum in Gdansk has been located in the historic Abbey Granary in the city's scenic Oliwa Park since 1966. Its holdings include objects related to the culture of the settlers who inhabited the Zulawy region up to 1945; a collection of non-European artefacts, including weapons, sculptures, ceramics and ornaments from Africa, South America and Oceania; a collection of objects, photographs and archival material brought by people resettled from the former eastern borderlands of the Second Polish Republic; and a collection of ethnographic artefacts from the regions neighbouring Gdansk Pomerania.
The most valuable of the 10,000 exhibits undoubtedly includes a collection of eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth century folk furniture and arts and crafts, mainly from Gdansk Pomerania: Kashubia, Kociewie, Żuławy, Powiśle and Bory Tucholskie. The permanent exhibition Folklore of Gdansk Pomerania is also worth seeing, featuring collections on fishing, agriculture, breeding and households. In addition to this, the Granary also hosts temporary exhibitions on the folk culture of various regions of Poland and non-European peoples, as well as educational workshops for schools and kindergartens.
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