Białystok: Makieta barokowego miasta z widowiskiem multimedialnym „Wersal Północy” wśród dźwięków i świateł

The model depicts Bialystok at the time of its greatest prosperity, i.e. in the second half of the 18th century. At the time, the city was famous as one of the most beautiful magnate residences in Poland and attracted widespread admiration not only from its own countrymen, but also from foreigners. In order to recreate its appearance as faithfully as possible, archival and cartographic sources were used in the realisation. The 5 m x 3.5 m mock-up features most of the topographical elements found in the aforementioned materials, allowing for the presentation of as complete a picture as possible of the town and Jan Klemens Branicki's residence at the end of the 18th century. In addition to the location of individual buildings, the materials from which they were made, the relief of the terrain, watercourses, gates, fences, etc. are also included. The fate of the city in the following centuries - the partitions, the destruction of the First and Second World Wars - deprived it of most of the monuments from that period. The mock-up provides a unique opportunity to observe the city and the Hetman's residence in its greatest heyday, at a time when it was famous in the Crown and in Lithuania as the Versal of the North.