National Museum Warsaw
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The National Museum in Warsaw ( Polish: Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie ) is the largest museum in the city with its branches in the Royal Castle and in the Palace of Wilanów .
history
It emerged from the Museum of Fine Arts , which opened on May 20, 1862, and was renamed Muzeum Narodowe in 1916.
In 1926 construction began on the current building on Aleje Jerozolimskie . In 1932 the first exhibitions of decorative art opened in the first two wings of the building. The entire building was officially inaugurated on June 18, 1938.
In the 2010s the museum owns around 780,000 works in collections of antiquity , Polish painting, foreign painting (e.g. the Nubian frescoes by Faras or Strolling at the fountain in the spa garden in Kissingen by Adolph von Menzel ) as well as handicrafts. It also has a coin collection and a dedicated wing for the Polish Military Museum . The museum also contains the old Zachęta collection.
In 2008 the project Polish Archaeological Mission Tyritake of National Museum in Warsaw started on the Crimean Peninsula ( Ukraine ) , directed by Alfred Twardecki , the curator of the Gallery of Ancient Art.
The removal of a work of art because of “immorality”, which shows a woman eating bananas, triggered a protest in April 2019 in which demonstrators in front of the museum building deliberately ate bananas.
Web links
- Official website (English)
- National Museum in Warsaw at Donajski's Digital Gallery (English)
- The National Museum in Warsaw at Google Cultural Institute
Individual evidence
- ↑ Unusual protest after art censorship because of "immorality" , Handelsblatt, April 30, 2019, accessed on June 27, 2019.
Coordinates: 52 ° 13 ′ 54.3 " N , 21 ° 1 ′ 29.2" E