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Diary featuring a portrait of Copernicus
- Date: 20th century
- Description: Diary with its decorative motif impressed on the metal cover distributed in the ‘Cepelia’ chain of souvenir shops
- Location: Regional Museum in Toruń
Figurine of Copernicus with an astrolabe
- Technique: wood, fabric
- Date: 20th century
- Location: Regional Museum in Toruń
Ink pad
- Technique: Sheet metal, fabric, varnish
- Date: ca. 1923
- Description: An ink pad with the Warsaw monument of Copernicus
- Location: Regional Museum in Toruń
Jubilees and other celebrations
Library
Matchbox
- Date: 1973
- Description: Box with the inscription 'Międzynarodowy Rok Kopernikowski' (International Year of Copernicus) featuring a portrait of Copernicus in an oval
- Location: Regional Museum in Toruń
Matchbox
- Date: 1973
- Description: Box with the inscription 'Międzynarodowy Rok Kopernikowski' (International Year of Copernicus) featuring a portrait of Copernicus, the heliocentric pattern and an astrolabe
- Location: Regional Museum in Toruń
Mead
- Description: Mead bottle with a sticker with the image of Copernicus, 0.1 l
- Location: Regional Museum in Toruń
Mead „Nicolaus Copernicus”
- Description: Bottle for mead „Nicolaus Copernicus” with a sticker with the image of Nicolaus Copernicus
- Location: Regional Museum in Toruń
Miniature of the Copernicus statue in Kraków
- Creator: Zbigniew Nowak
- Technique: patinated plaster
- Date: 1977
- Location: Regional Museum in Toruń
Mug
- Date: 20th century
- Description: A mug with an image of Copernicus and the inscription 'Astronomer Copernicus, or a conversation with God 1871'
- Location: Regional Museum in Toruń
Mug, 19th century
- Date: 19th century
- Description: A mug with the figure of Nicolaus Copernicus and a decorative inscription „Copernicus Bräu Thorn”
- Location: Regional Museum in Toruń
Mug, 20th century
- Date: 20th century
- Description: A mug with an image of Copernicus based on the Kaufmann portrait from the 16th century
- Location: Regional Museum in Toruń
Multifunctional ruler
- Technique: etched copper-foil plastic laminate
- Date: 1983
- Description: Ruler displaying the face of Nicolaus Copernicus and mathematical formulae made in Toruń leading electronic plant outside normal production at the time of the People’s Republic of Poland (PRL), then under a communist regime
- Location: Artur Sikora’s Collection
Museums
Other forms of honoring the memory of Copernicus
Plaque with Copernicus’ portrait
- Technique: wood, glue, ink
- Date: 1973
- Description: Souvenir widely available around the time Copernicus’ 500th anniversary was celebrated throughout Poland
- Location: Regional Museum in Toruń
Plate
- Date: 20th century
- Description: A porcelain plate with the monument of Nicolaus Copernicus in Toruń from the Chodzież Porcelain Factory
- Location: Regional Museum in Toruń
Porcelain mug
- Date: 20th century
- Description: A porcelain mug with an image of Copernicus against a background of space
- Location: Regional Museum in Toruń
Puzzle
- Technique: cardboard, print
- Description: Puzzle with Jan Matejko’s painting 'Astronomer Copernicus, or a conversation with God'

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