The old pre-war villa and the beautiful Russian Blue Cat greets us in the yard. This legendary breed was the favourite race of tsars. The friendly bulldog wags his tail, and the charming shi-tzu entertains everyone with his ball. This villa is home to the famous traveller, a soldier of Squadron 303, Arkady Fiedler. To this day, it is the home of the Fiedler family. That place is also the Arkady Fiedler Museum, which promotes knowledge about other cultures and spreads tolerance. Arkady Fiedler was a Polish writer and traveler. He made 30 journeys in his life. He wrote 32 books, which appeared in 23 languages and sold over 10 million copies. His books enchant with the art of description, colourfully bring the reader closer to people with different cultures, teach respect for other cultures, and speak about the beauty of nature.
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| Squadron oryginal plane and picture of Arkady Fiedler with Witold Urbanowicz |
Arkady Fiedler bought a villa in Puszczykowo in 1946 after returning from emigration. During the war, he was in the famous No. 303 Squadron RAF and took part in the Battle of Britain. The 303 Squadron was the best air squadron and, by far, contributed the most to the victory of the Allies. For many years, the squadron was carefully wiped out of the memory of Poles and British, including by Churchill himself. In 2018 , two films about the division were made. Both films featured famous international actors, like Piotr Adamczyk or Mel Gibson's son. After many years, the forgotten squadron seems to be returning to the pages of history. The museum also has an exhibition about the history of the squadron. You can see, for example, original photos of soldiers made by Arkady Fiedler.
The information about Fiedler's travels was spreading fast, so the author decided to set up a museum to show people the different worlds. and, in this way, educated them. The writer decided to open a museum in his family home, showing travel exhibits related to religion, the folk craft culture of the countries he visited, and also his story of the Second World War. There are also many photos from travel. Arkady Fiedler loved animals, and on many of them he was with some animals.
Arkady Fielder was primarily interested in the period of geographic discoveries, and it presents mainly his collections. One of the assumptions of Arkady Fiedler and his museum was to show people the world that they could not see. During communist times, travel was very difficult, especially for those far away. The second most important thing was probably education by showing other cultures the science of tolerance and acceptance of otherness. This is the role of the museum until today, and it performs very well, especially nowadays when the work of this family is very important because tolerance begins to disappear again.
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| Moai |
The most important element of the assumption is a garden of tolerance in which replicas of sculptures and objects important for the development of various civilizations in the world are here, for example: the Sun Gate of Tiahuanaco, the Aztec calendar, the mouth of Quetzelcoatl, a monument of the famous Native American chief Sitting Bull, Moai, and the Toltec telemon. The last copy of the well-known sculpture is quite a sad monument. It is a copy of the Buddha's sculpture from Bamiyan in Afganistan, which the Taliban blew up. It was the largest Buddha statue in the world.
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| Copy of Bamiyan Buddha |
There is also a replica of the Santa Maria ship opened by the descenant of Columb himself and the original battalion 303 plane—the famous Hurricane. Since 2001, the state has no longer donated to the museum, and the family is working on it alone. That's how it is: if you are not following ideology, then the state will do everything to make the institution forgetful. Unfortunately, they have no money for modernization, but in fact, creating a from that place in the 21st century would make the place lose its climate. History has shown more than once that people like Fiedler can once again be condemned by the system, condemned to others, and in any case, they are used politically. It seems that the family does not want to have anything in common with any political system; it wants to primarily educate people about the fact that the world is different and that this divergence makes it beautiful.
This copy of Buddha's sculpture shows us how much such places are needed so that such things never happen again. This is a beautiful place where you can feel the unique spirit and family hospitality. A place nowadays is necessary because the acceptance of otherness becomes a prohibited thing again.
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| Toltec atlas |
International site about the place:(no) polish http://www.fiedler.pl/
If you will contact family also in English, they will always answer.
If you will contact family also in English, they will always answer.
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