Opening hours: Closed Mondays and days after public holidays, open other days, 10 am - 4 pm.
The Museum of Romanticism opened in 1961 in a small Neo-Gothic castle from the early nineteenth century, which had once belonged to the Krasinski family. In the 1960s and 1970s, the Museum took over a former manorial outbuilding, the Gardener's House from the second half of the nineteenth century, and the House with Arcades. Situated in a twenty-two hectare (fifty-four acre) English park created in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the three buildings comprise the Museum of Romanticism's Romantic Architectural Complex.
The Museum collects objects connected with the history of the Krasinski family, especially those of Zygmunt Krasinski (1812-1859), the playwright and poet who was the leading representative of Polish omantic dramaturgy. His best-known work is Nie-Boska Komedia / The Undivine Comedy, written in 1835, in which Krasinski challenges the romantic myths of love, fame and idyllic happiness. A collection of Napoleonic memorabilia recalls the participation of Zygmunt's father, General Wincenty Krasinski in Napoleon Bonaparte's campaign. The Museum displays period interiors, decorative art objects and a variety of romantic souvenirs, including Napoleon's case taken by the Cossacks while he was crossing the Berezina River, a portrait of Zygmunt Krasinski painted by his wife, Eliza Krasinska, née Branicki, the Krasinskis' genealogical tree in the form of a silk imprint of a copper etching from 1772, seven portraits of the Krasinskis, a marble bust of General Wincenty Krasinski, sculpted by F. Bosio in 1808, and two Empire bookcases with seventeenth and eighteenth century collections of French books.
Permanent exhibitions: Inside the Castle: romantic interiors, mementos of the Krasinski family and Napoleonic campaign; inside the former manorial outhouse: the Krasinski family portrait gallery.
Muzeum Romantyzmu w Opinogórze
ul. Krasińskiego 9
06-406 Opinogóra
Phone: (+48 23) 671 70 25
WWW: www.muzeumromantyzmu.pl
Email: mr@muzeumromantyzmu.pl