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About the museum
The author of the “Trilogy” rarely visited Greater Poland and never set foot in this townhouse. It was Ignacy Moś, a charismatic collector, who linked him with Poznań: he devoted most of his life to gathering mementoes of the writer and gave the collection to the Raczyński Library.
The museum is housed in a historic townhouse whose former owners included Jan Baptysta Quadro, the builder of the Renaissance Town Hall, and the city's president Cyryl Ratajski.
What to see
The writer's death mask and a cast of his right hand, works by the sculptor Franciszek Black.
A personal copy of “Quo vadis” on Japanese paper, with heliogravures by Piotr Stachiewicz, from the writer's private library. Sienkiewicz's son gave it to Moś.
A replica of the Nobel Prize medal of 1905.
The sculpture “Ursus Fighting the Aurochs” by Marcin Rożek.
First editions of almost all of Sienkiewicz's novels and their translations into languages from all over the world, including such rare ones as Chinese, Japanese, Georgian, Arabic and Hebrew.
