What fitted in a railway wagon
A section on displacement: what people took and what they left behind.
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A museum of the folk culture of Lower Silesia, a branch of the National Museum in Wrocław, in a baroque episcopal summer palace south-east of the centre. The subject here carries a complexity not found in other ethnographic museums: Lower Silesia was German until 1945, and its present inhabitants are Poles who arrived after the war from various regions — many of them displaced from eastern Poland annexed by the Soviet Union. That means local folk culture here is not one continuous layer but several combined: what the German inhabitants left, what the arrivals from Lwów and its region brought, and what grew afterwards. The museum addresses this openly in its displays: dress, tools, furniture and crafts from both sides, and a section on the experience of displacement itself — what people carried with them in railway wagons and what they left. The palace and its garden are worth the visit in themselves, and the site is quieter than the centre.
A section on displacement: what people took and what they left behind.
The region's population changed entirely, so there is no single continuous folk layer.
The baroque building and its garden are worth the visit in themselves.
A former episcopal summer palace, Traugutta street
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