Secrets of everyday life.
Folk culture and related border issues from Kujawy to the Baltic Sea (1850-1950)

The exhibition is a story about people, their everyday life consisting of both work time and holiday time. Many aspects of everyday life from the turn of 19th and 20th centuries seem to be astonishing, unclear and sometimes even exotic. Also, people living in those days found many phenomena from their surrounding mysterious but they interpreted them in compliance with many-hundred-year-old tradition and in accordance with contemporary outlook on life. 

The exhibition is a “portrait”  of ethnographic regions belonging to the area of Kujawsko-Pomorskie Province and covering the area of pre-war Pomorskie Province (regions: Kujawy, Chełmno District, Bory Tucholskie, Kociewie, Pałuki, Dobrzyń District, Krajna). We present mainly everyday life of farm people living in villages and small towns, in other words – folk culture. However, we want to point distinctly out its borderline character resulting from important influence of noble and middle-class culture and especially from technical and civilization changes. 

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