"¡Buen Camino! Have a good journey!"

Second floor of the museum, Hall of Graphics and Drawing

The exhibition was prepared on the occasion of the Jubilee Year, whose theme is "Pilgrims of Hope."
Opened in April 2025, it will be available until the end of 2025. 
The exhibition takes visitors on an extraordinary journey through the most important pilgrimage sites visited by Christians - from the Holy Land, Lourdes, Fatima, Rome, Guadalupe, Czestochowa and Santiago de Compostela.

Wśród wyjątkowych eksponatów znajdują się m.in.  piękne grafiki Giovanniego Battisty Piranesiego, niezwykłe pamiątki z pielgrzymki do Ziemi Świętej należące do gen. Józefa Hallera, ciekawy wizerunek Matki Bożej z Guadalupe przywieziony przez ks. Józefa Jarzębowskiego MIC  z Meksyku, fotografie księży marianów, którzy pieszo pokonali ponad 800 km szlakiem Camino de Santiago.
Pilgrim in Latin means a foreigner, one who walks per agros - "through the field."

The phenomenon of pilgrimage is found in many religions. Christians took their pattern from the Old Testament. They made pilgrimages to a holy place for the purpose of repentance, to give thanks to God, to fulfill a vow, or with the hope of obtaining a favor. Initially, they traveled to places associated with the life of Jesus. The cult of saints, brought the cult of relics. The faithful traveled to the eternal resting places of those elevated to the altars and to Marian shrines. The most common were the so-called peregrinationes maiores, or religious journeys to Rome, Santiago de Compostela and Jerusalem. 

The apogee of pilgrimages, was the 11th and 13th centuries. That's when pilgrims were given special protection. The First Lateran Council (1123) certified that the Church takes into its custody "people wandering to Rome and visiting other holy places" and for wrongs done to them one could be "deprived of Christian communion."
Pilgrims were required to be modest and dressed appropriately, which included a pannier, a shell, a hat and a pilgrim stick.
The anklet not only helped on the road, but was also used for defense. Pilgrims almost always walked in a group. Along the way they had to face many difficulties, sometimes defying robbers or wild animals. On the way they often fasted, slept little, and filled their time with prayer. Since ancient times, pilgrims have brought with them "souvenirs" of the shrine they visited.
The oldest documented pilgrimage to Czestochowa set out in 1626 from Gliwice.