What to do and see in Kuyavia-Pomerania Province, Central Poland: The Best Lessons & Workshops

We warmly invite you to Gingerbread Bakery Master Bogumil, just in the heart of the beautiful Toruń's Old Town! If you are looking for a unique place to meet with unusual, somewhat mysterious but full of smiles and atmosphere of joy, we are best site for your needs! Gingerbread Bakery Master Bogumil organize unique Medieval Gingerbread Feasts. Our Guests celebrate together with taste of excellent gingerbread cookies, special gingerbread tee and coffee, delicious honey mead, along with candlelight and music of the Middle Ages. After every Feast, our Honourable Guests, like medieval artisans prepare decorative, ornamental, souvenir gingerbreads. All participants of our workshops are working with the matured raw gingerbread dough, root spices and wheat flour. Our Guests roll out dough and work with hand- carved wooden gingerbread molds. During each workshop, Guests learn about the colorful history of the most famous, spice cookie from Toruń, listen to legends and stories of gingerbread, and also learn the secrets of oldest gingerbread recipes.

Candy Manufactory is a place to produce sweets such as lollipops and candies. At every full hour we start with the production that everyone can see. On weekends, in addition to odd hours, we invite you to a lollipop workshop, you can twist your own lollipop! We also invite you for sweet shopping

Each visit to our museum is a journey into the depths of Africa and cacao tree plantation. Here you'll learn everything about cacao and chocolate history, its cultivation and road to Europe. You'll get familiar with packagings and various items connected to chocolate history. During the tour you'll have the opportunity to try our real chocolate, pralines and cacao beans.

Museum of Toruń Gingerbread The Museum of Toruń Gingerbread, a branch of the District Museum in Toruń, in the 19th c. gingerbread factory formerly owned by the Weese family, can be found at 4 Strumykowa St. It has taken three years to convert the building into a museum and prepare an exhibition space of some 1200 m2. The Museum of Toruń Gingerbread is likely to become a unique tourist attraction. Not only is it Poland's largest museum dedicated to the history of gingerbread but it is designed to be modern and interactive and solely dedicated to the long-standing European tradition of gingerbread making. Things to see and do in the museum Once you enter the former Gustav Weese gingerbread factory you are offered a tour during which you can learn many secrets about Toruń gingerbread: the ingredients necessary to prepare the dough, the baking techniques used as well as the gingerbread trade across the centuries. The Museum of Toruń Gingerbread features three exhibition floors. There are many surprises to be found here and attractions to enjoy, including a film about katarzynka (Little Kate), the most famous Toruń gingerbread biscuit, and an exhibition of early gingerbread moulds and ovens. In addition you will find an interactive recipe book, a multi-media show on the modern techniques used in Toruń-based Fabryka Cukiernicza 'Kopernik' S.A., and a 'meeting' with our own 'Gustav Weese', the former factory owner. You will also be invited to participate in a workshop giving you the hands-on experience of making your own gingerbread souvenir from dough prepared according to the original recipe, and then given a chance to taste this delicacy. The exhibition tour allows you to become familiar with a wide variety of gingerbread biscuits, a unique collection of former packagings, as well as gingerbread production techniques both past and present. On your own you can visit a café-club arranged in the style of the 1970s. Why is the Museum of Toruń Gingerbread worth a visit? Because Toruń is beautiful and the Museum of Toruń Gingerbread adds a taste and scent to its history. Welcome to the Museum of Toruń Gingerbread!!

We invite everyone to a unique workshop on soap making decorative and scented candles. Of course, each participant has their own single workplace and makes soap / candle. Participant can take their own prepared things to home as a souvenir.