Opening hours: Closed Mondays; in summertime, June-August, open Tuesday-Saturday, 10am-5pm, Sunday 11am-5pm; other months, open Tuesday-Saturday, 10am-4pm, Sunday 11am-4pm.
The opening of the restored Artus Court was a highlight of the Gdansk Millennium festivities in 1997. Constructed in 1476-81 in the Gothic style, Artus Court is the only building of its kind to have survived to date. In the past a number of such courts were built in the cities on the Baltic coast as meeting places for rich burghers. They were given the name of Arthur, the Celtic king revered by knights as well as by burghers, whose ambition was to live by some of the standards of the knightly ethos.
The Gothic Artus Court is decorated with paintings, sculptures and models of ships. Of the greatest artistic value is, however, a beautiful, tiled stove from 1545, the largest of all stoves built in the age of the Renaissance. A world-class object, this tapering stove is almost eleven meters tall and decorated with some 500 sculpted, glazed, colourful tiles (more than 460 of which are original) bearing the effigies of kings and allegorical characters. Coats of arms of Gdansk, the Royal Prussia and the Republic are mounted on the top. All these features make the Artus Court stove a unique, unparalleled work of art.
The Artus Court assembly includes also a late fourteenth century residential building redesigned in the Baroque style and called the New lawa House. Its historical interiors are referred to as the Gdansk Hall and date from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.In addition to the interiors - undoubtedly the major attraction of Artus Court - visitors can also see the permanent exhibition "The History of Gdansk's Artus Court".
Dwór Artusa
Oddział Muzeum Historycznego Miasta Gdańska
Długi Targ 43/44
80-830 Gdańsk
Region: pomorskie
Phone: (+48 58) 767 91 83
WWW: www.mhmg.gda.pl
Email: dwor.artusa@mhmg.pl