Dressing up as the Copernicus family in Torun.

 

Part of our Grand Day Out in Torun was to visit the museum of Nicholas Copernicus. As we arrived at the door of what I though was the local art gallery/museum, I’m afraid I had to come clean and ask who he was.  Later I’m sure I made up for my ignorance by helpfully explaining what patterns were and why you wore them on your feet!!  

Nicholas Copernicus was the person who discovered that the earth and other planets and the sun rotate around each other, along the way he was involved with navigation and the armillary sphere, he was also a physician and herbalist and made time to become a priest, a Canon of the church and help his uncle, a bishop, negotiate peace between warring towns.  What a man, what a brain!

The museum was as it not only describes his life and achievements but vividly portrays life in a medieval town in a merchant family. Dressing up was a feature of Polish museums that day and we had great fun dressing up in costumes of the day.

The bus depot and an early start for Torun 


Coffee in the square in the sunshine 

Pretty Torun

















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