The town hall is a Gothic building located in the Old market in Torun. Town hall, built in the late thirteenth century, is one of the best examples of medieval architecture in Central Europe.

For centuries, the town Hall was the most famous secular building in Torun, where he concentrated in commercial and political life of the city. In the main hall housed the city court. Also in the town Hall stayed Polish kings and famous political figures. The building has witnessed important historical events: in 1454, the ambassadors of the king of Poland received the oath of allegiance from the representatives of Prussia, in 1645, at the initiative of king władysław IV, it hosted an important meeting between Catholics and Protestants (Colloquium Charitativum).

At the end of the thirteenth century town Hall consisted of two long parallel buildings. The current form of the building is largely associated with large-scale construction projects undertaken in 1391-1399. Then destroyed the old commercial building, and the administrative, commercial and judicial systems were combined in one building, which was a unique solution to Europe at the time. Town hall in the form of four integrated buildings with a courtyard, had a rectangular shape with dimensions of 44 to 52 m.

In the early seventeenth century with the participation of Dutch architect Antonin van Obbergen in the town Hall was an additional floor was built, and the building received Gothic forms. The first floor received a new interior with artistic decoration, a work of the painter Anton Moller. All the paintings were destroyed during the siege by the Swedes in 1703.

In the years 1957-1964 it was a major overhaul of the building with a view to its adaptation to the needs of the Museum. The most important was the strengthening of the walls and ceilings, restoring the interior, the discovery of some architectural elements of the middle ages, immured in a later time.

Today at city hall has a main branch of the regional Museum. On the first floor of the East wing contains a collection of Gothic works of art, mostly from Torun and Silesia. Especially valuable is the collection of Gothic stained glass, collected in different churches. In the West wing exhibited a collection of decorative art Torun. The second floor is reserved for temporary exhibitions.