Editing Włocławek (section)

==Museums==
[[File:Guercino Return of the prodigal son.jpg|thumb|''The Return of the Prodigal Son'' by [[Guercino]], 1651, Płock Diocesan Museum]]
* Diocesan Museum
Next to Basilica Cathedral there is the Diocesan Museum (Polish Muzeum Diecezjalne) with paintings by [[Guercino]], and prints by [[Albrecht Dürer]]. The Seminary Library of Chodynski Brothers keeps precious manuscripts, including missals from 1500.
* Museum of the Kujawy and Dobrzyn Land 
* Main Edifice
It hosts two permanent exhibitions: "Włocławek`s [[Faience]]" and "The Gallery of Polish portraits" with works by [[Józef Simmler]], [[Teodor Axentowicz]] (neoclassicism); [[Leon Wyczółkowski]] (impressionism); [[Jacek Malczewski]] and [[Vlastimil Hofman]] (symbolism), [[Józef Mehoffer]], [[Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz]], [[Wojciech Kossak]], [[Alfons Karpiński]], [[Olga Boznańska]] (1920s and 1930s), [[Anthony van Dyck]] or [[Marcello Bacciarelli]].
* The Ethnography Museum
The museum is located in a historic granary and hosts an exhibition by Franciszek Tournelle. It showcases the most important elements of [[folk culture]] and equipment of house interior and farm of Kuyavia: farming, breeding, fishing, pottery, blacksmithing, cart-wrighting, cooperage, plaiting, historic folk sculpture, shrovetide customs, and musical instruments.
[[File:Kamieniczki XVI-XVIII Stary rynek 14-15 Włocławek hw.jpg|thumb|Museum of the History of Włocławek]]
* The Museum of the History of Włocławek
The museum consists of two historic [[Baroque]] houses from the 16th and 18th century on the Old Market. They exhibit artefacts connected with the history of Włocławek and Poland from archaeological excavations to Liberation of Włocławek in 1945 including the Bowl of Włocławek (10th century) and elements of knights armour (14th and 15th century), objects related to the economic life of Włocławek (16th and 17th century), measures and weights, treasures with coins from the 12th to 18th centuries, pharmaceutics from the 19th and 20th centuries, memorabilia of big industry in the 19th century, memorabilia of the Fire Department, sports trophies, uniforms, firearms, weapons, photographs and the archives of national uprisings, [[Polish-Soviet War]] (1919–1921), interwar decades, and [[World War I]] and [[World War II]], models of non-existent buildings (city hall, St. Wojciech Church and [[Church of St. Nicholas, Włocławek (1906–1925)|St. Mikołaj Orthodox Church]]) and the reconstruction of a photo atelier.
*The Art Collection
A sizeable art collection is also located in a granary built in 1839. There are two permanent exhibitions there: religious (human and animal sculptures by Stanisław Zagajewski known as "Polish Gaudi" from group of l`art brut) and an exhibition of works by Wacław Bębnowski (ceramic sculptures and functional objects with [[Art Nouveau]] motifs, naked nymphs and elements of the Far East). <br /> 
Exhibitions of Italian, German or Netherlandish art from 17th/18th centuries include: 
Paintings by [[Carlo Cignani]], [[Georg Philipp Rugendas]], [[Francesco de' Rossi]], 
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