Osiakowskis Museum

ADDRESS: ul. Garbarska 2
62-800 Kalisz
PHONE: 601 450 845
E-MAIL: andrzejbanert@o2.pl
Website: https://www.facebook.com/muzeum.osiakowskich/
The museum iincludes 11 exhibition rooms with exhibits and souvenirs related to Kalisz and its inhabitants, arranged in the basement of a historic tenement house. The official name of the museum commemorates the last owners of the tenement house at  Garbarska Street, who died in the Łódź ghetto in 1943. It is located in the place where once there was a Jewish quarter.

The Museum consitis of exhibits collected for several decades by Andrzej Banert. In several rooms are  various documents available, as well as items and household appliances documenting the fate of the inhabitants of Kalisz. The oldest exhibits obtained from the eighteenth century, the latest from modern times.

Rooms:

1. The Hall of Alina Szapocznikow - entry and ticket office

2. Occupation of Kalisz 1939–1945 (Reinhard Maczewski Hall)

3. Times of the Polish People's Republic 1945–1989

4. Kalisz - history until 1939 (Jan Goerne room)

5. Jews in Kalisz (Halina Bilinkis Hall)

6. Old pharmacy - Hairdresser - Scales - Tobacco

7. Kalisz village (Janek Orczykowski's room)

8. Travel and Polish forest

9. Colonial shop and kitchen (Agnieszka Grabarek room)

10. Shoemaker and Carpenter (Mietek Zimny's room)

11. Children's Lamus (Victor and Emma)

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