Historical Museum of Warsaw
The Historical Museum of Warsaw (Polish: " Muzeum Historyczne including taxes Warszawy ") is a 1936 founded the Museum in Warsaw's Old Town.
History of the Museum
Originally as a museum of the old Warsaw (Polish: " Muzeum Dawnej Warszawy " ) denotes, it was founded as a branch of the Warsaw National Museum. It involved then premises in three houses at Warsaw's Old Market: the Baryczka House, the Kleinpoldt House and the Moor - house ( house numbers 32, 34 and 36) that were acquired in the years 1937 and 1938 for this purpose by the Warsaw City Council had been.
First exhibits of the museum's collection were gathered at the beginning of the 18th century already during the King Stanisław August Poniatowski government. In the 19th century, the Society of Friends of Sciences led (Polish: " Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Nauk " ), the University of Warsaw, the city administration, the Towarzystwo Zachęty Sztuk Pieknych, the State Museum of Fine Arts (Polish: " Państwowe Muzeum Sztuk Pieknych " ) and the Museum of Antiquities (Polish: " Muzeum Starożytności " ) continues the collection.
Since 1906 exhibits were about the history of Warsaw from the Society of Friends of the story (Polish: " Towarzystwo Miłośników historii " ) and the Society for the Protection of historical artifacts (Polish: " Towarzystwo Opieki nad Zabytkami przeszlosci "), which already in 1914 Museum of Polish Antiques (Polish: " Muzeum Starożytności Polskich " ) was established in Baryczka - house collected. In 1916 this collection was acquired by the National Museum, to be finally allocated, which was founded in 1936 to Museum of Old Warsaw.
During the Second World War, particularly in the fighting during the Warsaw Uprising, the collection was destroyed or lost. 1948, the refurbishment of the museum under the present name was adopted. A total of eleven former town houses in the rebuilt Old Town in Warsaw were allocated to the Museum, including eight in the Old Market and another three in the Nowomiejska Street. Reconstruction of buildings and their connection with each other was carried out according to the plans of Stanisław Zaryn. In 1955, the museum was able to reopen the permanent exhibition, which traces the history of Warsaw from its origins to the modern day. In January 1965, the exhibition has been redesigned and has since " The Seven centuries of Warsaw " presented under the slogan. The museum today comprise around 250,000 exhibits.
Besides the core collection in the houses in the Old Town of Warsaw, the museum has various branch offices. These include the Museum in Wola, the Printing Museum (Polish: " Muzeum Drukarstwa Warszawskiego " ) and the Antonina Lesniewska Museum of Pharmacy ( Polish: " Muzeum Farmacji in mgr Antoniny Leśniewskiej. " ) In Warsaw, the Museum of the armed struggle and the martyrs in Palmiry and the Research and documentation Centre Korczakianum. Since 2006, the Museum of Warsaw - Praga belongs to the Historical Museum.