Illustration of a yellow palace with a red roof, two towers and an ornate entrance. A lawn, paths and a low hedge lie in front.
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Exposition permanente

Lower Silesians: Memory, Culture, Identity

Two parts explore the region’s earlier culture and the experiences of its post-war inhabitants.

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À propos de l’exposition

“Lower Silesians: Memory, Culture, Identity” presents the culture of Lower Silesia’s inhabitants before 1945 and the post-war lives of settlers. The first part brings domestic interiors together with crafts and farm work. It includes decorated furniture, paintings on glass, figure hives and tools used to work wood, fibres and metal.

Belongings brought after the war represent different regional traditions. Embroidered shirts, Hutsul sheepskin garments, bedspreads and vessels were part of family possessions. Photographs document settlers’ lives before arrival and in their new homes. The history of the Lemkos includes forced resettlement during Operation Vistula. The exhibition examines work, daily life and the preservation of customs in changed surroundings.

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The “Lower Silesians” exhibition concerns people living in one region at different times. The first part contains things used before 1945: furniture, pictures, clothing and tools. It introduces the work of coopers, weavers and blacksmiths.

The second part shows objects brought after the war, including clothes, textiles and vessels from the new inhabitants’ former homes. Photographs help explain their earlier homes and life after arrival. Many people had to leave the places where they had lived; Lemkos were forcibly resettled during Operation Vistula.

Objets et points (10)
  1. Illustration of a yellow palace with a red roof, two towers and an ornate entrance. A lawn, paths and a low hedge lie in front.1Point d’intérêtThe “Young Couple” figure hiveTwo figures carved from one log contain two separate beehives.Quiz
  2. Illustration of a yellow palace with a red roof, two towers and an ornate entrance. A lawn, paths and a low hedge lie in front.2Point d’intérêtDouble pot from the Opoczno areaA joined pair of clay pots carried meals to people working in the fields.Quiz
  3. Illustration of a yellow palace with a red roof, two towers and an ornate entrance. A lawn, paths and a low hedge lie in front.3Point d’intérêtA Lower Silesian roomPainted furniture, household vessels and pictures evoke a historic home.Quiz
  4. Illustration of a yellow palace with a red roof, two towers and an ornate entrance. A lawn, paths and a low hedge lie in front.4Point d’intérêtCooper’s toolsA shaving horse, crozes and clamps served different tasks in making wooden vessels.Quiz
  5. Illustration of a yellow palace with a red roof, two towers and an ornate entrance. A lawn, paths and a low hedge lie in front.5Point d’intérêtBlaudruck cloth and printing blocksA patterned tablecloth and blocks recall Sudeten textile-printing workshops.Quiz
  6. Illustration of a yellow palace with a red roof, two towers and an ornate entrance. A lawn, paths and a low hedge lie in front.6Point d’intérêtSpinning-evening dioramaSpinning wheels and festive dress evoke communal work in the early twentieth century.Quiz
  7. Illustration of a yellow palace with a red roof, two towers and an ornate entrance. A lawn, paths and a low hedge lie in front.7Point d’intérêtDecorated Lower Silesian anvilsDates and stamped patterns survive on the blacksmith’s working tools.Quiz
  8. Illustration of a yellow palace with a red roof, two towers and an ornate entrance. A lawn, paths and a low hedge lie in front.8Point d’intérêtCarved gingerbread mouldsWooden moulds gave gingerbread decorative shapes and images.Quiz
  9. Illustration of a yellow palace with a red roof, two towers and an ornate entrance. A lawn, paths and a low hedge lie in front.9Point d’intérêtClothing of post-war settlersEmbroidered shirts, Hutsul sheepskin garments and striped fabrics arrived from different regions.Quiz
  10. Illustration of a yellow palace with a red roof, two towers and an ornate entrance. A lawn, paths and a low hedge lie in front.10Point d’intérêtDower chests and settlers’ textilesTowels, bedspreads and kilims travelled in chests from their owners’ home regions.Quiz