Uphagen's House

Dom Uphagena. A mandatory stop on a trip to Gdańsk. This Tenement building at ul. Długa 12, was built in the 70s and 80s of the eighteenth century. On the site there used to be a fifteenth-century brick building, whose relics are in the basement of the present building. It was created to order by the merchant, amateur historian and bibliophile, John Uphagen, who was also a Gdańsk councillor. It is the only old house in Gdańsk which has retained its original character. Inside, we can admire the wood panelling, furnaces, textiles, window curtains, furniture, musical instruments, paintings and eighteenth-century ceramics. Reconstitution of this bourgeois building and its interior was made possible thanks to Uphagen's written entries, which forbade his heirs to make changes in the building's décor. For a long time the building remained in family hands, and finally a design museum opened in 1911, which operated until 1944. When the war entered into Gdańsk, the home's décor and furnishings waited patiently in the vicinity of the city. Since 1981, the house has been part of the Gdańsk History Museum, and its restoration and renovation lasted until 1998. Since then you have been able to instantly know the old bourgeois culture of living in Gdańsk. Every last Sunday of the month there are 'Musical Sundays in Dom Uphagen' concerts.