Kosciùszko Museum
Gurzelngasse 12, Solothurn 4500 - Switzerland
Phone: +41 (0)32 622 80 56
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Tadeusz Kościuszko (1746-1817) was a Polish-Lithuanian freedom fighter, who led the ‘Kościuszko Uprising’ against imperial Russia in 1794. He came to Solothurn in 1815 and died there in 1817 after falling from his horse; he was at the time suffering from poor health and old wounds. Parts of his remains are interred at Zuchwil, where a large memorial stone was erected in 1820 next to a Polish memorial chapel. The museum, opened in 1936, is where he died and exhibits original documents, coins, photographs, portraits, battle pictures and personal effects. Many places around the world have been named after Kościuszko.
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