Park Etnograficzny w Kaszczorku

About the museum

The Park Etnograficzny w Kaszczorku is a branch of the Ethnographic Museum in Toruń. The open-air museum presents folk architecture of the Chełmno Land and objects linked to fishing and work on the water. It was established on the site of a former multi-generational farmstead of a fishing and farming family.

Its main object is a wooden cottage from the end of the 18th century, secured on the spot where it was built; until the 60s of the 20th century it belonged to the wealthy Wilmanowicz family. The other buildings – a barn, a cowshed, a szałer and a shed – were moved to the sites of former buildings that no longer survive from other places in the Chełmno Land, which restored the layout of a quadrangular farmstead from the end of the 19th century.

In the lower part of the park, which slopes down towards the Drwęca, there are, among others, residential barges from Toruń-Winnica (1920) and from Bydgoszcz (1912), the ferry “Jan”, which until 1993 ran on the Nogat at Kępki, a lake shed for drying nets with a long boat of the sand-diggers, and a seasonal camp of Vistula fishermen.

Highlights

• wooden cottage from the end of the 18th century
• Chełmno Land farmstead from the end of the 19th century
• residential barges from Toruń-Winnica and Bydgoszcz
• ferry “Jan” from Kępki on the Nogat
• net-drying shed and seasonal camp of Vistula fishermen

Permanent exhibition

• Zagroda z Kaszczorka i obiekty rybackie – Open-air museum with a Chełmno Land farmstead and barges, a ferry, a net-drying shed and fishing huts on the Drwęca.

Operated by

Muzeum Etnograficzne im. Marii Znamierowskiej-Prüfferowej w Toruniu

Admission & discounts

Payment only in cash or by bank transfer.

Accessibility

• Wheelchair accessible: no information
• Elevator: no information
• Accessible restroom: no information
• Accessible parking: no information
• Service dogs welcome
• Tactile models & exhibits: no information
• Sign language tours: no information
• Easy-to-read materials: no information
• Audio description: no information

The museum’s ethnographic parks may be visited with a dog on a lead; the owner is responsible for clearing up.

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