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Rynek 20, 32-700 Bochnia, woj. małopolskie
A museum founded in 1959 by Stanisław Fischer (1879-1967), a teacher, researcher of Bochnia's past and outstanding collector. It is housed in a two-wing late Baroque building of a former Dominican monastery - one of the most valuable monuments of Bochnia.
The collection comprises over twenty thousand objects in five departments: artistic, historical, archaeological, ethnographic and natural. The permanent exhibition includes old folk sculpture and painting, the customs of Bochnia, non-European cultures (Africa, South America, Asia), archaeology and the history of the town with particular emphasis on the salt mine.
