Museum of Warmia and Mazury

Allenstein Castle

The Museum of Warmia and Mazury (in Polish: Muzeum Warmii i Mazur ) has been located in Olsztyn Castle , the former seat of the canons of the Cathedral Chapter in Warmia , since 1921 .

history

The museum was opened as a local history museum in July 1921 . It was under the direction of the archaeologist Leonhard Fromm and the teacher of the Allenstein Luisenschule Hugo Hermann Gross .

At the end of the Second World War , the museum was taken over on March 29, 1945 by the painter and art historian Hieronim Skurpski (1914–2006). At first it was called "Muzeum Mazurskie" (Masurian Museum), since 1975 it has been called "Muzeum Warmii i Mazur" (Museum of Warmia and Masuria). Hieronim Skurpski ran the museum until 1964.

The museum's collection mainly concerns exhibits from the fields of archeology , history, numismatics , art, literature, folk art and handicrafts. The collections come from the East Prussian museums, especially from the Allenstein Museum of Local History. The exhibits are divided into the areas of Gothic sculpture, Warmia sacred art, Dutch portrait painting, can foundry , red foundry and contemporary graphics . They include a total of 103,000 items of all kinds.

The collections are exhibited in rooms that formerly served the administrator of the property of the Allenstein cathedral chapters . Nicolaus Copernicus held this post from 1516 to 1521 . On the wall of the cloister is a plaque from 1517, the work of the astronomer himself. The only existing medical incunabula in Poland from the library of Copernicus is kept in the library of the museum .

The library collections also include works by Johann Baptist Homann and Christoph Hartknoch .

The museum has seven branches:

• Natural History Museum in Olsztyn ( Allenstein )
• Warmian Museum in Lidzbark Warmiński ( Heilsberg )
• The rebuilt house of "Gazeta Polska" in Olsztyn
• Gallery "Zamek" (The Castle) at Rößel Castle ( Reszel )
• Johann-Gottfried-Herder-Museum in the Dohna-Schlösschen in Morąg ( Mohrungen )
• Masurian Museum in Szczytno ( Ortelsburg )
• Museum in Mrągowo ( Sensburg )

Web links

Commons : Collections  - collection of images, videos, and audio files

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

• Official website of the museum (Polish)
• German information website of the Museum of Warmia and Mazury

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Christoph Hartknoch

Coordinates: 53 ° 46 ′ 39.5 ″  N , 20 ° 28 ′ 27.3 ″  E