Walking through the streets of Zakopane , we can see the majestic, even monumental main building of the Tatra Museum , built of distinctive white stone, Zakopane style . They are definitely worth a visit, as are other famous museums in this city, among others Museum of Zakopane Style , which is incidentally a branch of the Tatra Museum, or the equally interesting Museum of Kornel Makuszynski or Stanislaw Witkiewicz Museum .
Tatra Museum Building is not the first , where you could admire the collected exhibits concerning the entire Podhale region . Its first headquarters was located at Krupówki , the town's main street, in a house owned by Jan Krzeptowski. Only later, in 1892, another new edifice was built , which could accommodate the entire, ever-expanding exhibition , carefully collected collections.
This building, which made of light-colored stone and plaster with slender windows, we can still admire today, is a beautiful example of brick architecture in the Zakopane style and the main building of the Tatra Museum itself is a valuable architectural monument legally protected . Since 2021, the patron of the Tatra Museum has been, among others, the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage and the authorities of the Małopolska province. This monumental building of light-colored stone, already visible from afar, also It stands at 10 Krupówki Street, i.e. in the very center of and you can visit it Wednesday through Sunday, the museum's opening hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., with the last visitors admitted at 5:15 p.m.
In this part of the city we can easily find accommodation in Zakopane , including hotel rooms, cozy pensions , comfortably equipped apartments , historic cottages for rent in the highland style, for which the Tatra Mountains are famous, and the most frequently chosen cheap accommodation in private accommodation .
Tatra Museum Zakopane was established on the initiative of the Society of the Tatra Museum, founded in 1888, named after the very Titus Chałubiński, a great lover of the Tatra Mountains and Podhale . The museum building as we know it today has been built in 1922 , designed by Franciszek Mączyński, and the Tatra Museum building for years served thousands of visitors to Zakopane each year, excluding the period of World War II.
At the headquarters of the Tatra Museum gathered numerous exhibits presenting the history, culture and daily life of the inhabitants of this region of our country . There are thousands of them, the museum collects, among other things, embroidered highland corsets and other objects of daily use, and the entrance to this part of the exhibition leads through the An antique door of a highland cottage. The exhibits are presented during temporary and permanent exhibitions , filling glass display cases. These include paintings painted on glass, regional musical instruments, traditional highland costumes and numerous natural history exhibits, you can also see the Wladyslaw Hasior's gallery.
From 2014 to 2020 European Union funds under the Regional Operational Program of the Lesser Poland Voivodeship were distributed and renovation of the building with other branches of the museum was carried out , and the most important among them is:
Historic Villa Koliba , standing on Koscieliska Street, has been designed by Stanislaw Witkiewicz , and now you can see in it ethnographic exhibition including a huge number of exhibits , donated by one of the villa's owners, Zygmunt Gnatowski, among others.
It is supplemented by an equally large collection of Maria and Bronislaw Dembowski in a historic cottage that once belonged to the Caterpillar family , and all present folk culture of Podhale . Many interesting exhibitions will also be seen in Villa Opolanka , also designed by Witkiewicz , which houses Museum of Kornel Makuszynski , a famous Polish writer.
The museum presents the fauna and flora of the region. The museum is named after Dr. Titus Chałubiński
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