Museum of Far East Art in Star House

Welcome to the Museum of Far Eastern Art in the Star House (in Polish: Muzeum Sztuki Dalekiego Wschodu w Kamienicy pod Gwiazdą) one of the seven branches of The District Museum in Toruń (in Polish: Muzeum Okregowe w Toruniu).  The building is a unique monument, located in The Old Town Square (in Polish: Rynek Staromiejski) - at the heart of Toruń.  It is a bourgeois tenant house that was erected back in the Middle Ages and was later rebuilt several times. One of the owners of the tenement was the famous humanist, teacher of the royal sons, Philip Buonacorsi, known as Kallimach. The tenement bears traces of different eras - from the Gothic walls, through the richly decorated Baroque façade, to the interiors, which hide a magnificent spiral wooden staircase, decorated with figures of Minerva and the lion, and original polychrome Mannerist ceilings. Therefore, this tenement is one of the most magnificent and best-preserved examples of this type of architecture in Poland. At the end of the 17th century, the owner at the time - Jan Jerzy Zöbner - a wealthy merchant, alderman and city councillor decided to give the tenement a more modern and representative look. He decorated the façade with rich stucco decoration and crowned its top with a star. Since then, the building has been called the Tenement House under the Star. A sandstone portal, decorated with floral ornaments and two figures of angels, was also added at that time. At the beginning of the 20th century, the tenement received a new glazed door with applied zinc castings with ornamentation referring to the stucco of the façade.

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