Stefan Żeromski House in Gdynia, Literary museum in Orłowo district, Gdynia, Poland.
The Stefan Żeromski House is a literary museum in Orłowo, a district of Gdynia on the Baltic coast. The exhibition displays original manuscripts, personal belongings, and furnishings in the preserved residential rooms of this seaside residence.
Stefan Żeromski stayed in this house with his family from May to September 1920, writing Sambor i Mestwin and meeting Jan Kasprowicz and Jan Lechoń. After World War II it remained residential until 1985, then stood abandoned until 1989, when the Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Orłowa began renovation. The institution opened on 26 April 1997, and the museum exhibition followed in November 2000.
The house is run by the Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Orłowa, which has its office there and organises meetings, exhibition openings and shows. A café on the ground floor displays archival photographs of Orłowo and Gdynia and panels with the writer's life and portraits.
The museum is compact and can be toured in about half an hour. An on-site café provides a comfortable place to rest after your visit.
The ground-floor café displays archival photographs of Orłowo and Gdynia alongside panels on Żeromski's life and portraits. The museum occupies the house where he stayed from May to September 1920 and wrote "Sambor i Mestwin".
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