Museum - Kashubian Ethnographic Park in honor of Teodora and Izydor Gulgowski

The beginnings of the Museum Wdzydze Kiszewskie go back to 1906. Its creators, Teodora and Izydor Gulgowski were founders, first on Polish soil, a museum “on open air”. They opened it in the eighteenth - century peasant cottage, which they bought from a local host – Michal Hinc. There they gathered, the typical for that time, household and farm, and a valuable collection of gold-embroidered traditional hats (czepiec), paintings on glass and ceramics.

Scientific activities and social passions of the founders of the Museum led to the development of local handicrafts and discovered the beauty of Kashubian folk art, which lies in the intricate and colorful Wdzydze's embroidery.

Currently, more than 100 - years, the museum has 22 ha area situated on the shores of Lake Gołuń built facilities of regional architecture. Cottages, manor houses, school, blacksmith shop, windmills, church, farm buildings and workshops - 45 objects Kashubia and Kociewie demonstrate the richness and diversity of rural architecture from the period from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. Faithfully reproduced the interior with authentic furnishings, equipment run time and industries characterize the area, unusual climate, picturesque location and magnified qualities of the surrounding nature.

Hours:

January, February, March, November and December – 10 AM – 3 PM Monday to Friday
April and September – 9 AM – 4 PM Tuesday to Sunday
May and June – 9 AM – 4 PM Tuesday through Friday, and 10 AM – 6 PM Saturdays and Sundays
July and August – 10 AM – 6 PM Tuesday to Sunday
October – 10 AM – 3 PM Tuesday to Sunday

The museum is open for business:

the second day of Easter holidays
May 1 – Labor Day
May 3 – Day of the Constitution
the feast of Corpus Christi
August 15 – the feast of Our Lady of Assumption
the second day of Christmas

Masses are held in the historic church on Sundays at 8 AM.

MUSEUM CLOSED:

the first day of Easter holidays
November 1 – All Saints
November 11 – Independence Day
the first day of Christmas
the New Year's Day

Guided tours - 50 zł / hour.
Photography and filming purely amateur

Admission:
Normal - 10,60 zł, reduced - 7,50 zł, School Trips- 7 zł / person

On Mondays possible visit to the Museum free of charge except for interiors from 10 AM to 2 PM!
Please arrive at least 1 hour before closing of the Museum.
Free parking at the Museum Coach excursion groups.

MUSEUM OFFERS:

Permanent Exhibition

"The old architecture and culture of Kashubia and Kociewie from the seventeenth to the twentieth century" (45 old wooden buildings on 22 hectares)

Thematic exhibitions

"The old Kashubian furniture"
"Fr. Lt-Col. Joseph Wrycza - independence activist "
"Wdzydze crafts - Workshop"
"Teodora and Izydor Gulgowski the 90-th anniversary of the Museum"
"The homes of the rural teacher in the inter war period"
"Florian Ceynowa and Starogardzki Rising"
"Cleanliness and order in a home near the nineteenth and twentieth centuries"
"The history of the manor and farm in Luzinie"
"Poles, Germans and Kashubians. Daily life, customs and folk culture in West Prussia around 1900 "

Temporary and occasional exhibitions

Educational program - Shows, classes, workshops - from May to September to help individuals and groups

old homework and household (eg washing, spinning, weaving, grinding corn, weaving baskets, tying brooms)
art classes in the open air and indoor (eg, glass painting, embroidery, needlework netting,
flowers, paper product, wood carving, clay modeling, execution and stylish folk → Christmas tree ornaments from September to December)
lessons at school (eg, learning the Kashubian language, calligraphers pen and gryflem, singing, drawing)
folk games, competitions

Events organized for request:
Occasional performances of folk bands from Poland and abroad, and organ concerts
Sale of folk art, handicrafts, souvenirs and thematic publications
Organization of weddings and occasional Masses in the eighteenth - century church

83-406 Wąglikowice
Tel. (058) 686-12-88 & 686-11-30
muzeum@muzeum-wdzydze.gda.pl
www.muzeum-wdzydze.gda.pl

TAVERN "CONVENIENCE"
Open from May to September
Piotr Kolinski
Tel / Fax (058) 686-27-42 & 605-424-622

offers cuisine Pomeranian
arrange the order: dinners, meetings and parties (including the opening hours of the Museum)