On June 11, at 11.00 - 17.00 the Toruń Archival Picnic will be held at M. Rapacki Square next to Caesar's Arch, organized for the first time jointly by Toruń archivists, librarians, genealogists and museologists. The main slogan of the Picnic is "Toruń, the City of Archivists", which is reflected in the number and diversity of institutions collecting materials relating to the history of our city. The University Library of the Nicolaus Copernicus University will also have a stand at the picnic, presenting collections of manuscripts and social life documents.

Among the inventory of over 5,000 manuscripts and records of a very diverse nature, there are both medieval codes and the legacies of scholars and people of culture and social activists, primarily professors of the Nicolaus Copernicus University. The library also has its own archive, which contains files created by its organizational units from its establishment in 1945 to the present day. These files, stored in two separate warehouses, now occupy over 100 meters of shelves.

A separate collection in the library is quasi-archival documents of social life - real treasures of everyday life, full of stories about past and present times. Invitations to exhibitions, leaflets from festivals, theater, film and election posters, photographs from anniversary celebrations are fragments of history, records of everyday events in cultural, economic, political, religious, social and family life. Toruniana constitutes the largest resource. Particularly noteworthy are the collections related to the history of the Nicolaus Copernicus University, the University Library, the Scientific Society, and the Wilam Horzyca Theater, galleries, museums and the 1989 elections. Thanks to these unusual publishing forms, everyday life becomes extraordinary.

The organizers of the Toruń Archival Picnic are: Association of Polish Archivists, Branch in Toruń, State Archives in Toruń, Military Archives in Toruń, Faculty of Historical Sciences of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Institute of History and Archival Studies of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Archives of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, University Library in Toruń, Archive of Old Records of the Diocese of Toruń, district Court in Toruń, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Genealogical Society, General Elżbieta Zawacka Foundation, Pomeranian Archives and Museum of the Home Army and Military Service of Polish Women, District Museum in Toruń, the Artillery Museum in Toruń Branch of the Land Forces Museum in Bydgoszcz, the Student Scientific Club of Archivists of the Nicolaus Copernicus University, the Archival Education Section of the Association of Polish Archivists, the Section of Archives of Scientific and Cultural Institutions of the Association of Polish Archivists, the Family Archives Section of the Association of Polish Archivists and the Polish Tourist and Sightseeing Society Branch Municipal name Mariana Sydowa in Toruń.