The Małopolskie Centre of Hunting Culture emerged in keeping with the tradition of royal hunting. Polish hunters display their trophies here. The largest trophy is the medallion of a moose hunted down in Kamchatka. The brown bear comes from Romania and the American black bear comes from Canada. Animals from the Polish forests and mountains can also be found here: a moufflon – an ancestor of the sheep, a chamois, a family of wild boar (male, female and squeakers) and a family of roe deer. There are the Mustelidae: an otter, a badger, beech marten and a common polecat, rodents: beaver, muskrats and mammals from the Canidae family: a wolf, fox and a raccoon dog recently acclimatised in Poland. There are also game birds: a woodcock, hazel grouse, geese, ducks, partridges, pheasants and the strictly protected black grouse and capercaillies. To the right of the entrance, visitors can see the antlers of a reindeer hunted down in Karelia (Russia) and skeletal vertebrae of a whale from Spitsbergen. The exhibition includes 19th-century hunting rifles from Krakow museums. The second room is decorated with stag antlers. For years, hunters have been celebrating the day of their patron, St. Hubertus, in the Niepołomice castle.
Hunting room, Niepołomice Museum
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