Museums
On the Rzucewo Cape, wedged into the waters of Puck Bay, a settlement of seal hunters thrived more than 5,000 years ago — one of the most important archaeological sites on the southern Baltic. Today it hosts a Cultural Park: reconstructions of prehistoric structures stand in the very places where their originals were discovered.
The settlement was discovered in 1894 and for over a hundred years has been a key research site on the first fishermen and sea hunters of the Baltic. It functioned from the 5th to the 2nd millennium BC, in the Stone Age. On the basis of finds from Rzucewo, a distinct cultural unit — the Rzucewo culture — was distinguished in 1930.
Between September 2012 and June 2013 an open-air museum was built here: a post-built house, a semi-dugout, a pottery kiln, a barrow grave and a shaman's hut, each marked with a board and erected where the original once stood. A permanent archaeological exhibition operates in the historic Kashubian Cottage from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, topped by a viewing platform with a panorama of the bay. A forest path of several hundred metres leads to the structures.
The settlement lies about 1 km north of the centre of Rzucewo, within the Coastal Landscape Park. On the way back, see the neo-Gothic palace from 1840 and the 17th-century Sobieski Avenue leading to Osłonino.
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