Muzeum Okręgowe w Toruniu
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Old Town Hall, headquarters and main branch of the museum
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| Established | 1594 (1594) |
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| Location | Toruń |
| Type | Regional museum |
| Director | Anna Mierzejewska (acting) |
| Website | www |
Toruń Regional Museum (Polish: Muzeum Okręgowe w Toruniu), located in the Ratusz hall of Toruń, is one of the oldest and largest museums in Poland. 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 as a city museum in 1920 after the century of military partitions, it was administratively structured as the regional museum in 1965.[1]
The Museum consists of 7 departments.[2]
The headquarters and main department of the museum is located in the Old Town Hall. It is divided into:
Other departments are:
The Museum's holdings include works by Marcello Bacciarelli, Artur Grottger, Piotr Michałowski, Juliusz Kossak, Józef Brandt, Jan Matejko, Henryk Rodakowski, Józef Chełmoński, Julian Fałat, Leon Wyczółkowski, Stanisław Wyspiański, Jacek Malczewski, Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Wojciech Weiss, Józef Mehoffer, Konrad Krzyżanowski, Ferdynand Ruszczyc, Jan Cybis, Zbigniew Pronaszko, Piotr Potworowski, Antoni Fałat, Edward Dwurnik, Zdzisław Beksiński, and Jerzy Duda-Gracz.[3]
![The Torun Portrait of Nicolaus Copernicus (anonymous, c. 1580), kept in the Town Hall[a]](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nikolaus_Kopernikus.jpg)
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