Muzeum Uniwersyteckie w Toruniu
Museum of the University Library of Nicolaus Copernicus University (UMK), with a collection of works by Polish émigré artists and the exhibition “Skarby Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika”.
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About the museum
The Muzeum Uniwersyteckie w Toruniu has operated since 2003 as an independent section of the University Library of Nicolaus Copernicus University. Like similar institutions around the world, it combines representative, museum, academic and educational functions, and its name stresses that it is not limited to the history of a single university.
The main focus of the collection is works by Polish artists who lived outside Poland in the 20th century; the collection now numbers more than 25 thousand objects. The museum also collects works by artists from Vilnius and Toruń, and evidence of the material history of science in Vilnius and Toruń, including historic research equipment.
The museum is housed in a building at Plac Rapackiego, the former Reichsbank building. The permanent exhibition “Skarby Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika” (Treasures of Nicolaus Copernicus University) shows selected most valuable collections of the university, from ancient ceramics to European painting and works from non-European cultures. Temporary exhibitions are also held alongside it.
Highlights
- largest collection of Polish émigré art of the 20th century
- exhibition “Skarby Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika”
- ancient ceramics and European painting of the 16th–18th centuries
- silver binding from 1555 from the Biblioteka Srebrna (Silver Library)
- Sala Rektorów (Rectors’ Hall) with insignia and rectors’ gowns
- free admission
Permanent exhibitions
- Skarby Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika – Exhibition styled after an exhibition at the interwar Stefan Batory University in Vilnius, showing ancient ceramics, European painting of the 16th–18th centuries and works from non-European cultures.
- Sala Rektorów UMK – Hall for university ceremonies with portraits of rectors and historic rectors’ gowns and insignia displayed in cases.
- Founded
- 2003
- Operated by
- Biblioteka Uniwersytecka w Toruniu, Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika
- Director
- Mirosław A. Supruniuk
Admission & discounts
Admission is free.
Free admission; organised groups must book in advance.
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| Good to know | Organised groups must book in advance by telephone or e-mail. |
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