Warsaw-Wola Museum

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The entrance to the museum with reference to the two permanent exhibitions: The history of the district and the silverware collection of local producers

The Museum Warsaw-Wola (Polish: Muzeum Woli ) is a museum in Warsaw that, in addition to special exhibitions, deals with the history of the historically important district of Warsaw-Wola .

The museum is located in the former Sikorski Palace at 12 Srebrna Street and is a branch of the Warsaw Museum . It was founded in 1974 on the initiative of the Wola Group of the Society of Friends of Warsaw (Polish: Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Warszawy ). It was the first District Museum in Warsaw.

The permanent exhibition on the first floor of the museum is dedicated to the history of Vola from 1367 to the present day. Artifacts, memorabilia, pictures, photographs and documents of the time are presented here. Particularly interesting is the processing of the importance of several - often of German descent - Wolas families, especially during industrialization.

On the ground floor there is - also permanently - an exhibition of the products of around 60 Warsaw silver and glassware manufacturers (Polish: Zbiór Platerów Warszawskich im. Anieli i Tadeusza Wysiadeckich ). The museum received the collection - named after the founders Aniela and Tadeusz Wysiadecki - in 1994.

Numerous special exhibitions presented in the past few years highlighted aspects of the history of the city district. In addition to these special exhibitions, lectures, conferences and cultural evenings are held on a regular basis. Special tours and presentations are offered for schools.

References and comments

  1. ↑ Here, for example, was the voting field in Wola , which had been in use since 1576 .
  2. ↑ Another city district museum, the Warsaw-Praga Museum , was founded in 2006.
  3. ↑ The collection includes products from manufacturers such as J. Fraget, Gebrüder Henneberg, Norblin, Gebrüder Buch, T. Werner, R. Plewkiewicz, K. Groszkowski, I. Altman, J. Chyliński, Sz. Zolberg, E. Sucharski, Schiffers and Plewkiewicz.
  4. ↑ Tadeusz Wysiadecki bequeathed the collection to the museum - Joanna Kowalska: Sól w srebrze zaklęta - z prywatnej kolekcji solniczek Andrzeja Kuleszy  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: "Historia", February 16, 2011 (in Polish)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.historia.org.pl  

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