Warsaw Archaeological Museum
The Warsaw Archaeological Museum (Polish: Państwowe Muzeum Archeologiczne ) is a state museum and has been located in the historic Arsenal building on Długa Street in the Muranów district of Warsaw since 1958 .
history
The State Archaeological Museum in Warsaw was founded in 1923 on the decree of the then Ministerstwo Wyznań Religijnych i Oświecenia Publicznego (today's Polish National Ministry of Education). In 1928 the statutes of the museum were approved by decision of the Polish President. In addition to scientific research on the prehistoric history of Poland, they provide for excavations and the preservation of finds and the dissemination of information on prehistoric knowledge.
In the interwar period, the museum became a center for collections of archaeological finds; The collections of the Muzeum Przemysłu i Rolnictwa w Warszawie (Industrial and Agricultural Museum ), Professors Józef Przyborowski and Adolf Pawiński, and the researcher and collectors Kalikst Jagmin, Wojciech Gerson , Bogusław Werner and Zygmunt Gloger were brought together here. 95% of all archaeological finds in Poland at the time were then in the archives of the museum. During this period, an archaeological reserve was created in the Neolithic flint mines of Krzemionki .
After 1945, the museum also took over the collections of the now defunct Muzeum Archeologiczne Warszawskiego Towarzystwa Naukowego im. Erazma Majewskiego as well as parts of the finds from Biskupin . Since January 1956, the Iron Age open-air museum in Biskupin has been a branch of the Warsaw Archaeological Museum. In 1958, the Warsaw Museum was relocated to the Arsenal building near the Old Town . Since 1964 the archive of the museum has been in the Rybno Castle near Sochaczew . Scientific work is carried out here. Since 1995 the museum has organized archaeological festivals (“Festyn Archeologiczny”) in Biskupin together with the University of Warsaw .
exhibition
Archaeological objects from former and present Polish areas are mainly shown. The age of the exhibits ranges from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age and the Middle Ages. Among other things, a model of the settlement of Biskupin and parts of the " amber treasure of Basson" from the 5th century are shown. On the second floor of the museum, pieces from other continents are also shown.
literature
- Arsenal in Warsaw. 12-page brochure on the building in English, translated by Danuta Romanowska, Wojciech Piotrowski and Jan Sieklicki, printed by WZKart, undated
- Marek Boruta, Wojciech Brzeziński: Arsenał Władysławowski w Warszawie, Państwowe Muzeum Archeologiczne w Warszawie. published on the occasion of the 214th anniversary of the Constitution of May 3 ( wydano z okazji 214 rocznicy Konstytucji 3 Maja ), Warszawa 2005, ISBN 83-60099-40-5
- Wojciech Brzeziński, Wojciech Borkowski: Państwowe Muzeum Archeologiczne - Informator. Wydawnictwo Naukowe - Instytut Technologii Eksploatacji - PIB, Warsaw 2009, ISBN 978-83-60099-22-3
- Poland. Baedeker Allianz travel guide. Verlag Karl Baedeker, ISBN 3-87504-542-4 , Ostfildern 1993, p. 405
- Reinhold Vetter: Between Wisła / Vistula, Bug and Karpaty / Carpathian Mountains. in: Poland. History, art and landscape of an ancient European cultural nation. DuMont Art Travel Guide, 3rd edition, DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 1991, p. 155, ISBN 3-7701-2023-X
See also
Web links
- Museum website (in Polish)
- Website for the excavation in Biskupin (in English)
References and comments
- ↑ Adolf Pawinski (1840-1896) was a Polish historian at the Szkoła Główna and the Cesarski University in Warsaw
- ↑ Zygmunt Gloger (1845-1910) was a Polish historian, archaeologist and ethnographer
- ↑ according to Information The Museum Overview of the Polish capital at Warschau.info
Coordinates: 52 ° 14 '44.3 " N , 21 ° 0' 4.9" E