Muzeum im. Stanisława Murzynowskiego w Murzynowie
Small museum in a wooden hut on the Vistula in Murzynowo, about village life on the river, rafting and fishing; visits by prior telephone arrangement.
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About the museum
The museum was founded in 1978 by the ethnographer Prof. Jacek Olędzki, who chose as its patron Stanisław Murzynowski, the translator of the first Polish New Testament and a figure associated with the area. The museum is housed in a wooden thatched hut from the early twentieth century, in which a river ferryman and his family once lived. The building survived demolition during the construction of the Włocławek reservoir.
After the death of the museum’s guardian in 2010, the institution faced closure. It was reopened in 2016 thanks to the Urząd Gminy Brudzeń Duży and the Wydział Geografii i Studiów Regionalnych of the University of Warsaw, and the exhibition was rebuilt and the house thoroughly renovated. The museum is run by the Mazowiecki Ośrodek Geograficzny of the University of Warsaw.
The exhibition deals with local history and ethnography, especially the work connected with the river: fishing, rafting and shipping, as well as wickerwork, fruit growing, agriculture and religious practices. Visitors can see, among other things, fishing baskets, nets, anchors, a sail, felt boots for walking on ice and archaeological finds from a bell-grave cemetery. Most of the exhibits are gifts from residents to Professor Olędzki, dating from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The fenced grounds also contain a lapidarium with old gravestones from nearby cemeteries.
Highlights
- Interiors of the wooden thatched hut of a river ferryman
- Exhibitions “Tożsamość mieszkańców” (Identity of the Residents) and “Ludzie Wisły” (People of the Vistula)
- Fishing equipment, anchors, a sail and felt boots for walking on ice
- Lapidarium with gravestones from nearby cemeteries
- Location on the Vistula and the Włocławek Reservoir
Permanent exhibition
- Tożsamość mieszkańców i Ludzie Wisły – Rooms devoted to Prof. Olędzki and to life from birth to death, a village kitchen, and life on the river: fishing, rafting and boating equipment.
- Founded
- 1978
- Operated by
- Mazowiecki Ośrodek Geograficzny Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Admission & discounts
Admission is free.
Admission is free of charge.
Accessibility
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Getting there & parking
Murzynowo lies on the Vistula in the gmina of Brudzeń Duży, about 20 km west of Płock. Postal address: Murzynowo 34, 09-413 Sikórz.
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Plan your visit
| Good to know | Visits take place after prior telephone contact with the Mazowiecki Ośrodek Geograficzny. The museum lies on the Vistula, about a kilometre below the Marina Murzynowo marina; boats or kayaks can land at the bank next to the museum. |
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