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Ethnographical Museum at the Abbatial Granary
Division of the National Museum in Gdansk
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Ethnographical Museum at the Abbatial Granary
Muzeum Etnograficzne
Oddział Muzeum Narodowego w Gdańsku
ul. Cystersów 19, 80-330 Gdańsk
Director: mgr Wiktoria Blacharska
tel. (+48 58) 552 12 71
www.muzeum.narodowe.gda.pl

Opening hours: Closed Saturdays; open Tuesdays-Saturdays 9am-3pm, Sundays and public holidays 10am-4pm; 15 May - 15 September, open daily 10am-4pm.

The present-day Ethnographical Museum was originally an Ethnographical Department within the structure of the Pomeranian Museum. Moved in 1979 to the Abbots' Palace in Gdansk-Oliwa, it became an independent division of the National Museum in Gdansk, to be moved again to its current premises in the eighteenth-century Abbatial Granary and re-named the Ethnographical Museum – Division of the National Museum.

The holdings come predominantly from the area of Eastern Pomerania, covering the local ethnic and cultural groups: Kociewska, the Kashubs, Borowiacka, Lower Vistula, and Zulawy. The neighbouring regions of Wielkopolska, Kujawy, Warmia and Mazury are also represented, though to a lesser extent. The Museum has also grown its non-European collection, one that originated from the exhibits surviving World War II at the Gdansk City Museum (Staatliches Museum). Some of the Museum's collections are unmatched elsewhere in Poland. Such is a collection of Eastern Pomeranian folk furniture, including chests, cupboards, wardrobes and stools dating from the eighteenth to the twentieth century; exhibits of the culture of Frisians who settled in the delta of the Vistula River in the fifteenth century; ceramics, textiles and furniture brought by Poles resettled to Pomerania, mostly from the area of Wilno, after World War II.

Permanent exhibition: "Folk Culture of Gdansk Pomerania at the Abbatial Granary". Temporary exhibitions are mounted in the Gothic wing of the Museum's former premises, the Abbots' Palace.

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