Museum of Ethnology in Warsaw
The State Museum of Ethnology (Polish: Państwowe Muzeum Etnograficzne ) in Warsaw is the largest museum of its kind in Poland. It has been located in a 19th century building since 1973, which was built for the National Credit Society of the Kingdom of Poland ( Towarzystwo Kredytowe Ziemskie w Królestwie Polskim ). The address of the museum, located across from Galeria Zachęta in downtown Warsaw , is Ulica Kredytowa 1.
history
The Museum of Ethnology was founded in 1888 by JM Kamiński and Jan Aleksander Karłowicz. The first collection was in the Warsaw Zoological Garden, and in 1896 it was moved to the Museum of Industry and Agriculture (Polish: Muzeum Przemysłu i Rolnictwa ), at 66 Krakowskie Przedmieście Street.
In 1921, the archaeologist, ethnologist and museologist Eugeniusz Frankowski (1884–1962) took over the management of the collection and created a progressive museum which, in addition to collecting activities, carried out scientific research and held changing exhibitions. In 1922 the museum already had 9,000 exhibits and by 1939 the number had grown to around 30,000. These exhibits were divided into three areas - the Polish (among them around 3,000 parts for costumes and Huzuls -Folklore), the Slavic and the rest of the world (50% of all exhibits).
The growth of the holdings also resulted from donations from private collections such as B. the Polish meteorologist and ethnologist Leopold Janikowski (1855-1942), Jan Stanisław Kubary, Bronisław Piłsudski and Ignacy Belakowicz. In World War II, these collections were destroyed or lost.
In 1946 work began on rebuilding the collections - initially under the name Museum für Volkskultur (Polish: Muzeum Kultur Ludowych ). The new beginning took place in the Brühl-Palais in Warsaw's Młociny district on Ulica Muzealna there. In 1949 the first exhibition was opened with the name Polski strój ludowy , which was dedicated to Polish costumes.
In 1959, the former headquarters of the Landeskreditgesellschaft were assigned to the museum . The corner building on Kredytowa and Mazowiecka streets was renovated from 1962 to 1972 with the help of the Ministry of Culture and Art . The three-story building with a neo-renaissance facade was built according to plans by Józef Górecki and Henryk Marconi (facade) between 1853 and 1858. In 1964 the name of the museum was changed.
The museum was then opened on December 13, 1973. Today it has 76,000 exhibits, only a small part of which is in the six permanent exhibitions (“Asian Weapons”, “Africa”, “Australia and Oceania”, “Polish Folklore Art”, “Polish Handicrafts”, “Polish Customs of the Seasons ") to be shown. Special topics are taken up in up to twelve changing special exhibitions every year and presented on the ground floor. Up to 2013, modernizations in the exhibition rooms will be carried out in the order of magnitude of around 20 million zlotys.
See also
References and comments
- ↑ according to Article Modernizacja, czyli Państwowe Muzeum Etnograficzne rozwija skrzydła ( 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. from March 24, 2010 at ŻycieWarszawy.pl (Polish)
Web links
- ethnomuseum.pl (Polish / English)
- More detailed information on the main collections at Culture.pl (in English)
Coordinates: 52 ° 14 '17.3 " N , 21 ° 0' 43.8" E