Muzeum Przyrodnicze UMK

Info Telefon: (056) 611 44 32
Besucher-Email: muzeum@biol.uni.torun.pl
http://www.mp.umk.pl...

Muzeum Sztuki Dalekiego Wschodu / The House under the Star

every day except Monday 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Art from the Far East.
 

The Museums of the ruins of the Castle of the Teutonic Order

The District Museum in Torun

9-19 h.

The museum covers the history of Teutonic Order, the castle itself, and the conflict between the order and town inhabitants 1454-1466.
 

Muzeum Pismiennictwa i Drukarstwa / Grebocin Village Museum

Fax.: (0 56) 674 92 00

Info Telefon: (0 56) 663 25 12, 674 92 00
Besucher-Email: muzeum@grebocin.pl
http://www.grebocin.pl...

The small museum with a main topic in small printing machinery was housed in a reconstructed village church.
 

Regional Museum and Castle of the Teutonic Order

9-16 h.

A castle of the 14th cent, chnged in the 17th cent.
 

Ciechocinek graduation towers

Info Telefon: +48 (0) 54 - 4161005

Open all year round.

Foto: Wikimedia Commons
 

Muzeum Brama Czluchowska / Museum Czluchów/Schlochau Gate

Mon closed.

Regional museum.
 

Borow Tucholskich National Park

Info Telefon: (+48 523) 988 397
Besucher-Email: maribor@kki.net.pl
http://www.mos.gov.pl/kzpn/ind_gb.htm...

Borow Tucholskich National Park is one of the smaller National Parks in Poland with an area of 4,789 ha, and was established on July 1, 1996. The Park comprises of 4,250 ha of forests in the community of Chojnice in the Bydgoszcz voivodship, and 530 ha of water including numerous lakes and the Brda River with its tributaries and streams. The Park is surrounded by a protective zone of some 10,286 ha. The whole protected area will soon be free of any human dwellings; a forester presently living there will move out of the Park area.
The major task of the Park, other than maintaining an environment unchanged by humans, is to become developed for tourist and educational activities in the future. These will be centered at the community of Chojnice, which is expected to be a center of international ecotourism. Furthermore, a promotional forest complex with its center in Tuchola has been established. The community of Tuchola hosts the model educational center and the Group of Forestry Schools, which have a long standing tradition. The Borow Tucholskich National Park will be the crucial element of a protection system, which joins the areas protected as parks, located in the western and northern Poland, with those located in the eastern and central parts of the country.
Vegetation
The Pomeranian Primeval Forest, located between the communities of Chojnice, Koscierzyna, Tuchola and Starogard, constitutes one of the largest forest systems in Poland, covering an area of over 120,000 ha (1.5 per cent of the national territory). The Tucholskie Forests, which are a part of this primeval forest, are 12.5 thousand years old and remain in relatively unspoiled shape. However, only recently a part of them has been granted the highest form of protection, that is, National Park status.
The lakes are rich in water flora, with nearly a hundred species of flowering plants. Owing it to the presence of lobelia and other relicts in its flora, the Park plays the role of a "bank of genes". Furthermore, in the flora of the Park, 56 communities of aquatic plants, 7 communities of moss vegetation, 15 communities of forest plants and as many as 206 species of lichen have been reported.
Fauna
The Park's fauna is also regarded as very rich. The following species have been listed:
• 43 species of mammals, including 7 species of bats,
• 144 species of birds, including 108 breeding species and 35 migratory species, occurring quite regularly,
• 6 species of reptiles (all of them typical for Polish Lowlands),
• 13 species of amphibians,
• 25 species of fish, including the rainbow trout and other types of trouts and graylines, as well as the brook and the river lamprey.
The most precious representatives of mammals in the Park include beaver, elk (North American - moose) and deer. The beavers were reintroduced into the local waters in 1974 and have lived there since. In the forest one can easily see the traces of their activity - felled and gnawed trees laying along the lake banks. The lakes and rivers are also a home to otter.
Among the bird species, the eagle owl, white-tailed eagle, crane, black stork, kingfisher, golden-eye and merganser are noteworthy. The rarer of them live in the drainage area of the Creek of Seven Lakes (Ostrowite, Zielone, Jelen, Plesno, Glowka, and Skrzynak with Mielnica).