Abbot's Palace in Oliva
The Abbot's Palace at Oliva was built between 1754 and 1756. The building was donated by the last Polish abbot of the Cistercian monastery, Jacek Rybiński (1701–1782), as an extension of the so-called Old Abbot's Palace, which was built in the 15th century.
The building remained unused for a very long time, only in 1926 the State Museum of Gdańsk History was founded. Totally burned out in 1945, the palace was rebuilt in the 1960s as the seat of the ethnographic department of what was then the Pomeranian Museum. Since 1989 the contemporary art department of the Gdańsk National Museum has been established in the palace .
The monastery and the cathedral of Oliva are in the immediate vicinity .
Web links
- ODDZIAŁ SZTUKI NOWOCZESNEJ, Pałac Opatów. Muzeum Narodowe w Gdańsku, accessed July 18, 2014 (Polish).
literature
- Maria Bogucka: Das alten Danzig , Koehler and Amelang, Leipzig 1987, ISBN 3-7338-0033-8
Coordinates: 54 ° 24 ′ 39.1 ″ N , 18 ° 33 ′ 37 ″ E