Muzeum Warszawy

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The Warsaw Museum on the north side of the Old Town Market

The Warsaw Museum (Polish: “Muzeum Warszawy”) is a museum founded in 1936 in Warsaw's Old Town . Until 2014 it was called the Historical Museum of Warsaw (Polish: "Muzeum Historyczne m.st. Warszawy").

History of the museum

Originally known as the Museum of Old Warsaw (Polish: “Muzeum Dawnej Warszawy”), it was founded as a branch of the Warsaw National Museum . At that time, it moved into three houses on Warsaw's Old Market: the Baryczka House, the Kleinpoldt House and the Moor House (house numbers 32, 34 and 36), which the Warsaw city administration acquired for this purpose in 1937 and 1938 had been.

The first exhibits from the museum's collection were brought together during the reign of King Stanislaus II August Poniatowski at the beginning of the 18th century. In the 19th century the Society of Friends of Science (Polish: "Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Nauk"), the University of Warsaw , the city administration, the Towarzystwo Zachęty Sztuk Pięknych , the State Museum of Fine Arts (Polish: "Państwowe Muzeum Sztuk Pięknych") and the Museum of Antiquities (Polish: "Muzeum Starożytności") continued the collection.

Since 1906, exhibits on the history of Warsaw have been held by the Society of Friends of History (Polish: "Towarzystwo Miłośników Historii") and the Society for the Protection of Historical Artifacts (Polish: "Towarzystwo Opieki nad Zabytkami Przeszłości"), which began in 1914 Museum of Polish Antiquities (Polish: “Muzeum Starożytności Polskich”) in the Baryczka House. In 1916, this collection was taken over by the National Museum and finally allocated to the Museum of Old Warsaw , which was founded in 1936 .

The collection was largely destroyed or lost during the Second World War , especially during the fighting during the Warsaw Uprising . In 1948 it was decided to reorganize the museum under the name Museum of the History of Warsaw ("Muzeum Historyczne m.st. Warszawy"). A total of eleven former town houses in the rebuilt old town of Warsaw were assigned to the museum, eight of them on the Old Town Market and another three on Nowomiejska Street. The reconstruction of the buildings and their interconnection was carried out according to plans by Stanisław Żaryn. In 1955 the museum was able to reopen the permanent exhibition, which traced the history of Warsaw from the beginnings to the modern age. In January 1965 the exhibition was redesigned and has since been presented under the slogan “The Seven Centuries of Warsaw”. The museum's holdings now include around 250,000 exhibits. In 2014 the museum was given its current name. After several years of redesign, it was reopened in 2017.

Branch offices

In addition to the core collection in the houses in Warsaw's old town, the museum has several branch offices. These include the Museum of Wola , the Museum of the Warsaw printing system (Polish: "Muzeum Drukarstwa Warszawskiego") and the Antonina-Leśniewska Museum of Pharmacy (Polish: "Antonina Leśniewska Museum of Pharmacy.") In Warsaw, the memorial in Palmiry and the Korczakianum Research and Documentation Center . The Praga District Museum has also been part of it since 2006 .

References and comments

  1. Muzeum Drukarstwa Warszawskiego (Polish, English)
  2. ^ Antonina Leśniewska (1866–1937) was a Polish pharmacist and pharmacist.
  3. Muzeum Farmacji im. mgr farm. Antoniny Leśniewskiej (Polish, English)
  4. Muzeum - Miejsce Pamięci Palmiry (Polish, English)

See also

Web links

Commons : Warsaw Historical Museum  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 52 ° 15 ′ 0.8 ″  N , 21 ° 0 ′ 42.1 ″  E