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The project concerns converting a part of the castle building into a cultural facility. The investment project covers the castle wards, fortifications, the so-called dry moat and the bridge above it. It will also include several rooms of the castle’s ground floor, whose small part has been available to visitors or used for professional purposes so far. It’s an important component of the entire investment project as it will enable a significant increase in the number of indoor castle areas made available also to mobility impaired people – also those living in wheelchairs.
Thanks to the investment project, many visitors will be able to see the former castle kitchen and former bathrooms dating back to when the castle acted as an orphanage – both found in the west wing – and a Gothic chamber, unattractively converted into a screening room after WWII – found in the east wing. There will also be welfare rooms with a changing room and a washing facility on the 2nd floor of the west wing. The extent of conservation work will include the basement of the south-east corner of the castle and the pantry room (known as Bishop I. Krasicki’s study) on the 1st floor of the west wing. The basements of the south-east corner will feature exhibition rooms. The project involves also establishing a CCTV system covering all areas made available to visitors or requiring surveillance for safety reasons and not surveilled so far. It also involves modernising the lighting systems in the rooms and areas accessible and to be made accessible to visitors, installing an
emergency and exit lighting system in the attic, in the exhibition rooms on the 2nd floor, in the lower floor of the basement of the south and east wings – and in the staircase leading thereto, and in the lower rooms of the tower.