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Author: Izabela Kołowska | Publish date: 05 December 2023

St. Nicholas Day in Ełk

05 December 2023, Author: Izabela Kołowska

Already once again, Santa Claus will arrive in a mail wagon to of our city to meet with the Elks. Historical Museum in Ełk invites you to St. Nicholas Day at MHE on December 6th. There are a lot of attractions, including the launch of the "Christmas locomotive", a meeting with Santa Claus and the opening of the exhibition "The World of Toruń Gingerbread". Hot tea for everyone! ECC Cinema has prepared a wide range of St. Nicholas' repertoire. Santa Claus will also visit Ełk Library.

Museum Historical in Ełk invites you to St. Nicholas Day at MHE on December 6th. The event starts at 4:30 p.m.

In The program is full of attractions:

Hours. 16.45 joint firing of the "Christmas locomotive" (before MHE building)

Hours. 16.45-19.30 meeting with Santa Claus (mail car)

Hours. 17.00 vernissage of the exhibition "The World of Toruń Gingerbread" + curatorial guided tour (MHE exhibition rooms)

Hours. 5.30 p.m. and 6.30 p.m.:

•How is it done? Traditional gingerbread baking show (exhibition halls MHE)

•Spectacle theatrical "Believe in Santa Claus" (Education Center Museum)

Hours. 16.30-19.30:

•Workshop tea infusions and decorating gingerbread cookies (Education Center Museum),

•Animations for children (in front of the MHE building),

•Hot tea for everyone (Museum Education Centre).

Admission free.

Exhibition: "The World of Toruń Gingerbread"

Museum Historical Monuments in Ełk invites you to visit the exhibition prepared by the by the District Museum in Toruń and the Society of Friends of the Museum Regional Court in Toruń.

Exposition It presents the history of Toruń's gingerbread making. The exhibition is filled with original museum objects, m.in. moulds for pound cakes and candies from turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Other important elements of the exhibition are copies of objects, as well as mannequins to complement the reconstruction a gingerbread stall, a bakery or a shop from the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries Age.

Exhibition is interactive, and an integral part of the exhibition are workshops on forming and baking decorative gingerbread (at MHE in as part of the educational activities "Around Christmas and Carnival").

Participants Meetings prepare decorative decorative gingerbread with their own hands with traditional shapes and discover the taste of Toruń Gingerbread!

Exhibition can be visited from 6 December to 11 February 2024, from Tuesday to Sunday from 9.30 a.m. to 4.30 p.m. in the exhibition halls of MHE, ul. Track 1.

Admission free.

St. Nicholas Day in the ECK cinema

We also invite you to familiarize yourself with repertoire of the cinema of the Ełk Cultural Centre, which prepared a wide range of offers for St. Nicholas Day, m.in. family films to watch "The Most Beautiful Christmas" or "How to Become a Saint Santa Claus 3".

More on: https://kino.elk.pl/

St. Nicholas Day in the library of Ełk

6 December Santa Claus will also be available in Municipal Public Library in Ełk from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

In The program of the event:

  • visit Santa Claus,

  • photograph with Santa Claus,

  • List to Santa Claus,

  • Decorate gingerbread.

Admission free.

The Mayor of Ełk, Tomasz Andrukiewicz, invites you to all events. Watch the video.

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