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MARIA ZNAMIEROWSKA-PRUFFEROWA

ETHNOGRAPHIC
L INTRODUCTION

MUSEUM COLLECTIONS

AND GENERAL

CHARACTERISTICS

IN POLAND
OF MUSEUMS

The aim of the present article*) is to give an introduction to ethnographic
museum directing in Poland as well as to give a general characteristic
of
the museums. The paper contains a short summary of information
on the
ethnographic museums existing, nowadays, in Poland, and on ethnographic
sections in various multisectional
museums, in small collections found in
various museums of a regional type and finally in museums situated in
the open.
Ethographic museum collections in Poland suffered an enormous disaster
during the Second World War. The Central Ethnographic
Museum in Warsaw had been burnt, many coLlections were carried off, stolen, plundered
or destroyed.
After the war an action has been taken to resume the museum directing, to protect the extant collections, and to organize field research work
the main purpose of the latter being gathering and protection of relics the
state of which is in danger.
In the area of the reconquered northern and weste,rn provinces a further
development
of museums already existing and creation of new ones has
been carried out.
The period between 1946 and 1963 marked an intensive development
of
the museum directing in Poland especially in the line of interior organization of the museums and of the spreading of their activity.
Poland possesses in Warsaw the biggest Museum of Folk Culture and Art
organised after the war and having the character
of a central museum
- a continuation
of the pre-war
Ethnographic
Museum. Warsaw State
Ethnological. Museum and the Museum of Folk Culture and Art in Poznań
(a department
of the National Museum in Poznań) are directly sugordinate
to the Ministry of Culture and Art in Warsaw .
• This article has been written
on the initiative
of the polish Ethnographic
society
in concordance
with the Direction
of the Museums
and Relic Protection,
Ministry
of Culture
and Art on the basis of questionnaires,
ample correspondence
and personal
'field interviews
carried
out and closed at the end of 1963.

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The total number
of independent
ethnographic
museums
in Poland
amounts to 3 (in Warsaw, Cracow and Toruń). There is an Archaeologic
and Ethnographic
Museum (in Łódź).
The Museum in Łowicz is a Department
of the National Museum in Warsaw.
The Ethnographic
seum in Wrocław .

Museum

in Wrocław

is a Section

of the Silesian

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.There ~re 10 ethnographic
sections of District Museums in province capItals ,(BIałystok, Bytom, Gdańsk, Kielce, Koszalin, Lublin, Olsztyn, Opole,
Rzeszow, Szczecin, Zielona Góra).
The number of regional museums possessing ethnographic
collections and
being subordinate
to National Councils or to social institutions
is 90.
The t~tal amount of ethnographic
museums, ethnographic
departments
a~d sectIOns as well as social posts having ethnographic
collections together
wIth mu.seums in the open amounted in Poland at the beginning of 1964
to 110 wIth a total number of 177.196 relic exhibits*)

1. MUSEUMS

(EXCEPT

MUSEUMS

other Social institutions.
Dissipated ethnographic
collections are also found
in various art-and
artistic handicraft
sections of National Museums a,nd
Regional Museums, as well as in other ones, e. g. in museums of Techniq'ue
and Textile Industry,
in Museum of Musical Instruments
in Poznań, in
mining museums,
in catholic diocesan museums
and in private
hands.

IN THE OPEN).

Te following collections have in this country an all-Poland range: Warsaw State. Ethnological Museum the Ethnographic
Museum in Cravow, the
ArcheologlC and Ethnographic
Museum in Łódź as well as the Ethnographic
M~zeum (Department
of the National Museum) in Poznań. The Ethnograp.hlc Museum in Toruń has a northern-Polish
range and, in the domain of
fIshery a nation-wide
range.
T~e s~rvice. areas of the remaining
museums embrace major or minor
regIOns mhablted by particular
ethnic groups.
E~r?pean non·Polish
collecions with a considerable
material
of Slav
exhlglts are found in the Warsaw State Ethnological
Museum and in the
Ethnographic
Museum in Cracow.
Extra European collections are in the follorwing museums: the Museum
of Fol~ Culture and Art in Warsaw and in Poznań, the Ethnographic
Museum m Cracow, the Regional Museum in Pabianice
(province of Łódź)
and the Museum of Western Pomerania in Szczecin; the Museum in Bochnia (prov~nce of Cracow) has besides a collection of artistic handicraft.
There IS also a small number of ethnographic
collections in care cf
lyce~ms, schools and various institutions
such as the Polish Society for
TourIsm, Central Office of Folk Industry and Folk Art Houses of Culture and
• the total number
of ethnographic
relic exhibits
in Poland
amounted
in 1955 to
112.000 (See Bibliography:
M. Znamicrowska
Priifferowa.
Museums
and ethnograpric
'l~ctlOns
In Poland),
whereas
in 1958 their
total
was
115.000 (See
BibliographY:
~•. Gładysz.
The sCIentIfIc
actlvlty
of the museums
after
the war).
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2. MUSEUMS

LOCATED

IN THE OPEN

There are at the present time in Poland 13 museums of the skansen type,
located in the open. Apart from that, a fair number of such museums is in
the stage of organization
and of premilinary
preparatory
work. They arise
not only on the initiative of ethnographic
museum centres but also at the
suggestion and the aid of Keepers of Monuments in Province Capitals.
In the town of Sanok, province of Rzeszów, there is a Museum of Folk
Architecture
exclusively
devoted to this problem. A fairly big space is
occupied by sets of buildings arranged for the exposition in the Museum in
Nowogród, District of Łomźa, province of Białystok, in the museum of
Olsztynek, District of Ostróda, province of Olsztyn and in the Museum of
Zubrzyca Górna, District of Nowy Targ, province of Cracow.
There are in Poland besides museums located in the open, in form of
several buildings, farms or huts provided with authentic furniture originating from the same farm or purcn'ased in the nearest vicinity.
With the category of sui generis museums in the open are also ranked
regional museums, the so called Creative Dwelling Chambers inhabited by
their owners and in which art and artistic handicraft
is demonstrated,
e. g.
the Kurpian Creative Dwelling Chamber in Tatary near Kadzidło, District
of Ostrołęka, province of Białystok in which the visitors are shown the
manufacturing
of cutouts and decoration of interiors, or the Beskid Creative Dwelling Chamber in Istebna, District of Cieszyn, province of Katowice, where folk musical instruments
are exhibited, as well as the Łowicz
Creative Dwelling Chamber in Złaków Borowy, District of ł,owicz, province
of Łódź, where manufacturing
of paper cutouts is demonstrated
and also
making of paper flowers,
straw spiders
and ornamented
Easter
eggs,
together with the strewing of sand samples, etc.
Active
places:
Province

museums

organized

Province
Province

of Gdańsk:
of Katowice:

Province

of Kielce:

of Białystok:

in the open are, in Poland,

in the following

1. Nowogród. District of Łomża (a set of 7 buildings).
2. Wdzydze, District of Kościerzyna
(two huts) .
3. Istebna, District of Cieszyn (the Beskid Creative
Chamber).
4. Bieliny, District of Kielce (one hut)

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Province

of Koszalin:

Province

of Kraków:

Province
Province

of Kraków:
of Kraków:

Province
Province

of Łódź:
of Łódź:

Province
Province

of Olsztyn:
of Rzeszów:

Province

of Warszawa:

5. Kluki, District of Słupsk (the Slovinian farm,
a set of 5 buildings and household effects).
6. Kraków-\"'ola
Justowska
(small church, inn,
actual presbitery
and granary under the ca!.'e
of the parochial office).
7. Zakopane, (a hut called "Tea").
8. Zubrzyca Górna, District of Nowy Targ (set
of 12 buildings and household effects).
9. Łowicz, (set of 3 buildings).
10. Złaków Borowy (The Łowicz Creative Chamber),
11. Olsztynek (set of 13 buildings).
12. Sanok-Olchowce
(Museum of Folk ArchItecture, set of 13 buildings).
13. Tatary, District of Ostrolęka (Kurpian Creative
Dwelling).

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Map

1. Museums

of the Skansen

Type.

Furthermore,
many museums in the open are in the organization
stage,
other museums of this kind are being planned. In some areas it has be~n
decided to keep intact whole parts of hamlets as a sort of folk architecture
reservation
(e. g. village of Kościeliska District of Nowy Targ, Province of
Kraków).
In addition to that a great quantity of relic wooden churches, campaniles
and huts in the country are under the protection of province monuments
Keepers. Some churches still serve as places of religious worship.
There also exists in Poland social monuments
preservation
provided
for by law; either a natural person or a legal person, or else a collective
of persons, as well as an institution
may be the warden. This law does
much to further the interest in folk-culture
relics of the society at large.

II. AIMS, PROBLEMS

AND ACTIVITY

OF MUSEUMS.

Museums and ethnographic
sections in Poland are centres of scientific
research work and serve for social instructive purposes.
They carry into effect their aims and accomplish their plans by means
of field research
and stationary
investigations,
the result of which is
the gathering of collections, their documentation
and scientific or scientific
and popular publications
in form of major or minor monographs,
articles,
inventories, catalogues, pamphlets, bulletins, communiques, etc.
The Parliament
Act of 15 February 1962 concerning the safeguarding
of
achievements
of culture, particularly
museums, not onIy provides a legal
basis for the preservation
of monuments. By asserting both the scientific
Cind social value of monuments
of culture, as well as by stressing the
responsibility
of State and society to preserve them, the Act just mentioned
impels our society to hold them in due respect.
The Act purports that, besides their didactic-educational
activity, museums
conduct scientific investigation,
bring out the results of their research,
and may rightly strive for recognition as institutions for scientific research.
The general tendency
of the Polish museum directing is to link the
activity of museums with the life of the people, with the medium of
a respective region and with its social aud cultural requirements,
to engage
the museums in a struggle for progress and to let them expand humanitarian
ideas both on a national and world scale.
In connection with this, the museums try to expand the range of their
activities, they gather comparative
material and aim to establish closer
contacts and collaboration
with other countries.
The slogan launched by the Board of Museums and Protection of Monuments, Ministry of Culture and Art, voiced in this way: "Museums are
universities of culture" demands adequate efforts.
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Map. 2 Museums

and Ethnographic

Collection.> in Poland.

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The policy of the museums and of the ethnographic sections is to embrace,
within the limits of their possibilities, the whole of the folk material, spiritual and social culture, the stress being laid on the question of protection
of the folk culture relics and of taking good care of the contemporary
folk
creist; special importance is attached to the preservation
of artistic handicraft.
The question of linking the traditions of folk culture and handicraft with
modern life is also given consideration.
The social and instructive
activity comprizes an organization
of permanent and temporary exhibitions as well as ambulant ones for the circulation in the country and in foreign lands. The purpose of those exhibitions is either to characterize the culture and art of a particular region or
to illustrate
some chosen problems. At the same time the aim of the
museums is to stress by means of such expositions
the development
processes and the dynamics of social and cultural changes seen against
a historical background.
Side by side with their own expositions the museums demonstrate circulated expositions from other cities of Poland and from abroad. When speaking of exposition one must emphasize the contribution
of creative work
carried out by coworkers practising plastic arts and photography.
To the instructive activity of the museums belong numerous lectures and
talks with demonstrations
delivered in one's own museum, in other cities
and in the country, matinees and evening shows specially devoted to youth
and children, consultations
and various kinds of courses, questionnaires,
press,
radio
and
television
communiques,
ethnographic
accounts,
demonstration
of own films, competitions, etc.
The ethnographic museums serve as a kind of laboratories for the university chairs. In the museum halls and especially in the demonstration
stores
lectures, seminars, classes and museum practice training are being held
for students of university,
schools, teachers, instruktors,
specialists
and
for special chosen groups of youth, etc.
In connection with the above mentioned considerations
some museums
are setting up archives on a more or less planned basis: they gather manuscript material concerning material culture, oral folklore, music and dance
folklore as well as iconographic collections. The Ethnographic
Museum in
Toruń has, for example, a section devoted to researches in· the domain of
folk dance as well as to the the training in the making of notation by mear.s
of the kinetographic
method (this museum has also a Dance Group giving,
among others, performances
and intending in the future to make a demonstration in the scheduled Ethnographic
Park of a skansen type. A Song and
Dance Group attached to the Ethnographic
Park of Orawa exists also in
Zubrzyca Górna).

Independent
ethnographic museums have their own conservation laboratories, whereas ethnographic sections are attended by a common laboratory
of the respective museum. Small regional museums usually benefit by the
help of other museums in a casual way.
The maintenance
of the ethnographic
collections still suffering from
considerable
shortcomings,
efforts are being made to remove them.
The Museum ethnographic
section libraries fall short of foreign museum
literature.
The museums have also iconographic collections but not all of the ethnographic sections are provided with their own photographic
laboratories.
The ethnographic
museums and the ethnographic
sections collaborate in
the field of science with the university ethnography chairs in Cracow, Lublin, Łódź, Poznań, Toruń, Warsaw and Wrocław, with the centres of the
Institute for Material Culture History of the Polish Academy of Sciences,
with the Chair of Architecture
and Village Planning in Gdańsk, with the
Chair of Polish Architecture
History, with the Chair of Architecture
and
Village Planning and the Chair of Country Architecture
in Cracow, with
the Chair of Architecture
and Village Planning in Warsaw, with the Chair
of Country Architecture
in Wrocław, with the Plastic Arts, Architecture
and Decorative Arts Research Institution in Cracow and with the Folklore
Music Research Institution
of the State Institute
of Art, with the Province Offices for the Maintenance of Ancient Monuments, with the Polish
Ethnographic Society and with other scientific societies.
In the domain of social instructive works the Museums collaborate with
the Culture Departments
of the Province, District, Town and Community
National Councils, with the School Inspector-General
Offices, with the Polish Ethnographic
Society with the Polish Teachers Association with the
Polish Radio with the Polish Society for Tourism, with Musical Societies
and with other institutions.
III. SURVEY OF MUSEUMS AND ETHNOGRAPHIC

SECTIONS

The survey system of the ethnographic
museums, ethnographic
sections
and other centres having museum collections is as follows:
1. The information
on museums is classed according to administrative
units- Provinces, the total number of these being 17; they embrace all Poland.
2. The provinces are scheduled in alphabetic
order. The first number
in a Province is always given to the biggest Central, District or autonomic
museum' the next museums are listed in the alphabetic order of towns.
Museu~s in the open are given at the end of the survey of the respective
Province, exception being such museums which are located close to the
basic museum building. They are quoted together with the basic museum.

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In the survey text of the various museums in the column of Museums
in the open there are mentioned all kinds of monumental buildings or sets
of buildings which are destined to be transferred
into Ethnographic
Parks
of a skansen type or to be left in place as an inception of future museums
of this sort. Museums in the open which are in an organization stage have
been also quoted. But as they are not yet active and officially opened they
were not included in the total number of such museums.
Attention must be given to the fact that various museums having ethno~
graphic collections are in stage of organization, of transferring
their collections to other centres and of trying to augment considerably
their collections, thus there is a possibility that some inexactitudes
may occur in the
quoting of their exhibits; it even may happen that some museum centre
just springing up or even already existing will be involuntarily
omitted in
the register and on the map.
The quantity of exhibits mentioned in the register concerns only ethnographic collections actual up to the end of 1964 .

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and 1 scientific worker.
The collecting of exhibits began in 1945. The Museum was founded in
1949. Total amount of exhibits: 2360 (among others amber manufactured
exhibits). The Museum carries out research work and collects folklore material.
publications:
Regional

catalogues

in preparation.

Museum in Suwałki

(Ethnographic

Collections)

Address: Suwałki, ul. Kościuszki 81, phone 280.
Range of activity: the Suwałki Land.
Staff: Zygmunt Filipowicz M.A. Manager and 1 assisting
cational worker.
The Museum was

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Museums in Poland are closed on Mondays.
informa:tion in foreign languages it is desirable
in advance asking for entry hours.

1. Province

Museum in Łomża (Ethnographic Section)
Address: Łomża, Sadowa 10, phone 9-37.
Range of activity: North-Eastern
Mazovia, the Kurpian Virgin Forest and
the ancient Łomża Virgin Forest.
Staff: Janina Chętnikowa,
managing director, docent dr Adam Chętnik

founded

Museum carries out research
publication:
catalogues.

Because of the necessity of
to telephone to the museum

in 1958. Total

number

scientific-edu-

of exhibits:

54 The

work.

Museum in the open in Nowogród
Address: Nowogród, District of Łomża
Range of activity: The Łomża Land (Kurpian architecture
and apiculture).
The Managing Body is the Museum in Łomża.
The collecting was recommenced after the war in 1949. The Museum was
reopened in 1963. The quantity of relic buildings: 7 (one hut dating from
the XVIIIth-XIXth
century, one granary
dating from the XVII1th century, one windmill, one treadmill,
two fulleries
and one ancient gate).
Total number of exhibits: 592 (an entire equipment
of a hut and a granary about 150 exhibits, utensils for beekeeping and forest apiculture:
81
exhibits). Furthermore,
a whole equipment of a windmill, tools, ~or amber
treatment
and for the manufacturing
of musical instruments,
lmplement

of Białystok

Museum in Białystok (Ethnographic
Section)
Address: Białystok, Rynek Kościuszki, Ratusz, phone 29-04, 29-93.
Range of activity: Province of Białystok
Director: Zofia Sokołowska M. A.
Manager of the Ethnographic
Section: Joanna Maciejewska M. A.
The beginning of the collecting and the foundation of the Museum took
place in 1949. Total number of exhibits: 1727. The richest collections: weaving and ceramics. The Museum carries out research work.
Publications:
"Rocznik Białostocki"
and catalogues of exhibitions.

for wax candles

manufacturing.
2. Province

Museum of Forest and Natural Science of the Białowieża National Park
(Ethnographic
Collections)
Address: Białowieża, pow. Hajnówka, phone Białowieża 24.
Range: the Virgin Forest of Białov,;ieża
Manager: Engineer Czesław Okołów. M. A.
The beginning of the collecting and the foundation of the Museum took
place in 1920. 'Total number of exhibits: 83 (Białowieża forest apiculture).
Publications: catalogues.

of Bydgoszcz

Ethnographic
Museum in Toruń
Former Ethnographic
Section of the Municipal Museum
Address: Toruń, Wały Sikorskiego 19, phone 50-91 and 36-49.
Range: Northern Poland, Fishing: the whole of Poland.
Comparative material from other countries.
Director: Prof. Dr Maria Znamierowska-PrUfferowa.
The total number of scientific wor!{ers is 11.

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Collecting began in 1946. The Autonomous Ethnographic
Museum dates
from 1959. Total number of exhibits: 8044 (out of it about 200 pre-war exhibits). The richest collection: fisheryand
the whole complex of the Kujawy
folk culture. The museum is carrying out scientific research \vork and collects manuscripts,
folklore,
especially
in the field of folk dance. The
Museum has a Dance group called Oskar Kolberg's Dance Group. Iconographic archives.
Publications:

monographs,

(in organization
seum).

pamphlets

The collecting of ethnographic
exhibits commenced in 1946. The Museum
existed before the war. Total number of exhibits: 908. The richest collections are: garments, furniture,
household utensils and folk art exhibits.
The Museum is carryng out scientific research work and collects folklore
material.
Publications: Section catalogues.
The Żnin Museum (Ethnographic
Collections) - Polish Society for Tourism
Address: Znin, Plac Wolności, Baszta Ratuszowa, phone 310 and 199.
Range of activity: the historical Pałuki
Protectors:
Elżbieta Żurawska and Czesław Kawczyński.
The collecting commenced in 1960. The Museum was founded in 1963.
Number of exhibits: 150. The richest collections are: the Paluki dress, the
equipment of the interior of a hut, decorative art, embroidery, folk sculpture, weaving, kermis spice cakes.

and communiques.

Museum in the open at Toruń
stage, the basic institution being the Ethnographic

Mu-

Regional Museum (Ethnographic Collections)
Address: Chojnice, Brama Człuchowska, phone 319
Range of activity: District of Chojnice
Manager: Jan Rydzkowski
The collecting commenced
reactivated
in 1960. Number

before 1939. After
of exhibits: 213.

the war the Museum

was

Museum in the open in Pułkowo Wielkie
Address: Pułkowo Wielkie, District Wąbrzeźno, (the museum
nization stage)

Museum in Grudziądz (Ethnographic Section)
Address: Grudziądz, ul. Wodna 3/5, phone 31-39
Range of activity: The Land of Grudziądz and the vicinity
Manager: Jerzy Feldman
Manager of the Ethnographic
Section: Józef Błachnio
The collecting commenced in 1883. The Museum was founded in 1885.
Number of exhibits: 811. The richest collections: treatment of flax, agriculture, fishing. The Museum is carrying out scientific research work.

3. Province

of Mogilno and vicinities).

Museum chamber in Kcynia
Address: Kcynia, pow. Szubin, lVIiejska Rada Narodowa, Rynek 7.
Range of activity: Pałuki (District of Szubin, Znin and vicinities).
Patroness: Klara Prillowa
Collecting

was commenced

about

1957. Quantity

of exhibits:

about

of Gdańsk

Museum of Pomerania in Gdańsk (Ethnographic
Section)
Address: Gdańsk, Rzeźnicka 25, phone 31-40-31
Range of activity: the Kashubians with the Slovinians, the inhabitants
of
the Tuchola
Forest
called Kociewiacy and Borowiacy, the inhabitants
of the Lower Vistula (called Dolni Powiślanie) and of the Żuławy bay (called
Żuławianie as well as Warmia - Mazury and Jamno groups for the purpose of comparison.
Director: Dr Jan Chranicki.
Manager and Custodian of Ethnographic
Section: Dr. Longin Malicki.
Total number of scientific workers 4 (one of them being docent).
Collecting was initiated in 1958. The Museum was reactivated
in 1946.
Quantity of exhibits: 2.200. The richest collections concern: fishing, agriculture, ceramics, wickerwork,
weaving, cabinetmaking
and folk art. The
Museum is carrying
scientific research work and collects folklore and
other materials. Iconographic archives.
Publications:
folders
Museum in the open in Oliwa, near Gdańsk (a windmill has already been
erected as a beginning of a skansen type museum).

Publications:
Museum guidebook and catalogues.
Private Collection in Głucha Puszcza
Address: Głucha Puszcza, pow. Mogilno
Range of activity: Pałuki Land (part of district
Owner: Stanisław Pijanowski
Quantity of relics: 100

is in orga-

400.

Museum of the Kujawy Land in Włocławek (Ethnographic
Section)
Address: Włocławek, ul. Słowackiego la, phone 36-25
Range of activity: the Kujawy Land
Manager:
H. Królikowska,
assistant-ethnographer:
Zenobia
WitczakPietrzykowska
M.A.

Kashubian Museum in Kartuzy (Ethnographic
Section).
Address: Kartuzy, ul. Kościerska 1, phone 78.
Range of activity: Southern part of the Kashubian Land

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Manager: Adjunct Franciszek Treder
Collecting was initiated in 1932. The Museum was founded in 1947. Total
amount of exhibits: 842. The richest collections concern: fishing, agriculture: ho~sehold utensils, plastic art, ceramics, articles made of horn, masks,
musIcal Instruments;
rarity - Kashubian brocade and pictures painted on
glass.
Publications:
catalogue.

Museum

in Kwidzyn

(Ethnographic

4. Province

Upper Silesia Museum (Ethnographic
Section) in Bytom
Address: Bytom, Plac Thaelmana 2, phone 42-53
Range of activity: Upper Silesia
Director: Docent Józef Ligęza
Manager of the Ethnographic
Section: Dr. Barbara Bazielich and
scientific wOTker.
The collecting began in 1937. The Museum was founded in 1927.
The total number of exhibits: 7.583 The richest collection is: folk art. The
Museum does scientific investigations
and collects manuscripts,
folklore
and other materials. Iconographic
archives.
Publications:
Museum yearbook, catalogues of exhibitions, communiqli'~s.
Silesian Museum in the open (in organization stage).
The Museum of the Upper Silesian Village of a skansen type is going to
be organized in the grounds of the Province Park of Culture and Rest in
Chorzów by care of the Upper Silesian Museum in Bytom and of the Province Custodian of Ancient Monuments. In an area of 72 hectares 72 constructions of ancient wooden architecture
will be exhibited.
Address: Katowice, Jagiellońska 25.

Section)

Address: Kwidzyn, ul. Katedralna
l, phone 689
Range of activity: Lower Vistula Land
Staff: Adjunct Alfons Lemański, man'ager; l assistant in the ethnographic
section, one educational officer.
Collecting began in 1925; in the same year the Museum was founded. It
was reactivated in 1950. Amount of exhibits: about 550. The richest collections concern: fishing and agriculture,
folk furniture,
wickerwork
artioles,
ceramics, forms for textile printing, forms for gingerbread
making. Rare
exhibits: adorned distaffs. The Museum is cołlecting folklore material.
Collections apart from museums in the Province of Gdańsk
Address: Hel, District of Puck, National Town Council. Hel, pow. Puck.
MRN
Ancient, previously Protestant
church.
fishing of the Hel Peninsula"
Collecting began in 1960.
Quantity of exhibits: about 120.

Permanent

exhibition

Museum

"Deep-sea

Museum

which

is destined

to be the

in the open in Wdzydze

Address: Wdzydze, District
nian Museum in Gdańsk).

of Kościerzyna

Range of activity: Southern part
the villages in the neighbourhood).

(Departament

of the Kashubian

Land

of the Pomera(Wdzydze

and

of the huts:

(Ethnographic

Section)

Museum in Chorzów (Ethnographic
Section)
Address: Chorzów, ul. Powstal1ców 25, phone 401-14
Range of activity: Chorzów and its environs.
Manager: Custodian Janusz Modrzyński M.A.
Collecting had been started in 1925; the Museum was founded in the
same year. Number of exhibits: 1655. The richest collection: folk medicine.
The museum is carrying out research work and collects folklore material.

Collecting of the exhibits was commenced in 1906 and finished in 1958.
Quantity of exhibits: 2 huts. Completely fitted out, an apiaryand
a fishing
boat.
Quantity of exhibits in the interior
Publications: folder.

in Bielsko-Biała

Address: Bielsko-Biała,
ul. Wzgórze 16a, phone 53-53
Range of activity:
city of Bielsko-Biała,
District Bielsko and partiy
district of Cieszyn, Oświęcim, Zywiec and Pszczyna.
Manager of the Museum: Stanisław Oczko, M. A.
Manager of the Ethnographic
Section: Bernadetta Dubrawska-Turno
M. A.
(ethnographer).
Collecting of exhibits was commenced in 1895; in the same year the museum was founded. It was reactiv~ted after the war in 1948.
Number of exhibits: 722. The richest collections: guild and folk weaving.
Wilamowice and Cieszyn folk-dress, garments of the Silesian mountaineers,
works of modern painters
and sculptors, lace making. The museum is
carrying out scientific researches an collects folklore material.
Publications:
catalogue of the exhibition.

Address:
Starogard
Gdański,
Powiatowy
Dom Kultury.
The Dish-iet
Culture House) Depository which is destined to be the beginning of the
future museum
Address: Sztum. Zamek (Castle). Depository
beginniing of the future museum.

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Publications:
catalogue
Museum in the open (see Bytom and Katowice)
Museum in Cieszyn (Ethnographic
Section)
Address: Cieszyn, ul. Tadeusza Regera 6, phone 15-77
Range of activity: Cieszyn Silesia
Manager: Ludwik Brożek, and one scientific worker.
Collecing of exhibits was started in 1901. The Museum
about the beginning of the XIX th century.

dates

back

to

Number of exhibits: 2677. The richest collectiOn is the Silesian folk dress
and its decoration. The Museum does research work and collects folklore
material.
Museum

in Częstochowa

Address: Częstochowa,
44-24, 17-92 and 59-35.

(Ethnographic

Plac im. dr. Władysława

Section)
Biegańskiego

45, phone

Range of activity: CzęstOChowa and the following Districts: Częstochowa,
Kłobuck, Pajęczno, Radomsko, Myszków, Zawiercie and Włoszczów.
Manager of the Museum: Włodzimierz Blaszczyk M. A.
Manager of the Ethnographic
Section: Barbara Wolska M.A. Mgr. Piotr
Owczarski (ethnographer)
Collecting of ethnographic
exhibit!': was started in 1959. The Museum was
founded in 1909. Quantity of exhibits: 579. The richest collections are: agricultural and household tools.
The Museum
material.

is carrying

Publications:

Museum

out scientific

Yearbook,

investigations

and collects folklore

Częstochowa.

Museum in Gliwice (Ethnographic
Section)
Address: Gliwice, ul. Dolnych Wałów 8a, phone 49-16
Range of activity: Upper Silesia
Manager:
phers.

Dr Ludwik

Dubiel;

one scientific

worker;

both are ethnogra-

The collecting began after the war in 1946. The Museum was founded in
1905. Number of exhibits: 2460. The richest collection is the Silesian folk
art. The Museum is carrying out research work.
,Publications:
"Zeszyty
Gliwickie"
a Gliwice Bulletin and a catalogue
of the exhibition
(in press).
Museum

in the open (in organization

stage).

Museum in PSzczyna
Address: Pszczyna, Zamek
Range of activity: District of Pszczyna
Manager: mgr. Ignacy Płażek
Collecting of exhibits began in 1956

Quantity of relics: 16 (peasant art)
l\Iuseum in organization
stage in Rybnik (Ethnographic
Collections).
Address: Rybnik, Rynek 17, phone 923
Range of activity: District of Rybnik and of Wodzisław.
::\Ianager: Ryszard Wenglorz
Collecting of exhibits began in 1956. The Museum was founded in 1958.
Amount of exhibits: 126 (the Museum has mining relics).
The ::\luseum is collecting folklore material
(folk music).
Museum

in Tarnowskie

Góry (Ethnographic

Collections)

Address: Tarnowskie
Góry Rynek l, tel. 26-07
Range of activity: The land of Tarnowskie
Góry
Manager' Janusz Modrzyński, custodian.
collectin~ commenced in 1957. The Museum was founded in 1957/58.
Number of exhibits: 298 (The Museum has mining relics). The Museum
is carrying out research work.
l\Iuseum in Zabrze
Address: Zabrze, Plac Krakowski
9
Range of activity: Zabrze and the nearest vicinity
Director: Fulczyk Franciszek,
M.A.
Head of the Ethnographic
Section: Irena Bukowska M.A.
Museum was opened after the war in 1945
Quantity of exhibits: 300 (costumes and customs, peasant art)
The Museum is carrying out scientific researches.
Museum in the open
The Beskid Creative Chamber
Address: Istebna, District of Cieszyn, house Nr. 163 Jana Kawuloka, phone
Katowice CPLiA 396-48.
Patl'0nage: The Polish Union of Cooperatives
of the Folk Art Industry
and Artcraft (CPLiA) Katowice and the Silesian Museum in Bytom.
Range of activity: the village of Istebna.
The manager of the Chamber is Jan Kawulok.
The beginning of exhibits collecting took place in 1961. The Ch~mber
is active since 1962. Quantity of exhibits: about 65 pieces. To the nchest
collections belongs: the equipment of a mountaineer's
hut. Musical instruments (demonstration).
Museum

in the open in Katowice

In the Kościuszko Park there are: a small church and a wooden ~ampanile dating from 1510 transferred
from Syrynia, District of Rybmk and
a granary dating back' to the XVIIIth century. from Gołkowice, ~istrict of
Wodzisław, a wooden church from Miku1czyce near Zabrze datmg from

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1530 and a wooden fulling press; the above exhibits are destined for the
Museum of Upper Silesian Village of a skansen type in Chorzów (See also
Bytom and Chorzów).
5. Province

Museum

of Kielce

T~e Świętokrzyskie
Museum (Ethnographic
Section)
Address: Kielce, Plac Partyzantów
3/5 phone 67-64, Ethnographic
phone 43-91
Range of activity: Province of Kielce
Director: Alojzy Oborny M. A.
Manager of the Ethnographic
Section:
assistant. Barbara Erber M.A.

Aleksandra

Dobrowolska

Section

M .A. and

Collecting of the exhibits began in 1945; the Museum was founded in the
same year. Quantity of exhibits: 1326. The richest collection is: folk garments. ?h~ Museum is collecting folk songs. Archives of iconography.
PublIcatIons: Yearbook of the Świętokrzyskie
Museum.
Museum in Radom (Ethnographic Section)
Address: Radom, ul. M. Nowotki 12, phone 78-77
Range of activity: City and District of Radom
Manager: Anna Apanowicz M.A. Mglr Stefan Rosiński (ethnographer).
.The Mus~um was founded in 1923. Collecting of ethnographic
exhibIts began in 1958. Quantity of exhibits: 279. The Museum is carrying out
research work.
Museum in Sandomierz (Ethnographic
Address: Sandomierz, Rynek lO, phone 986
Range of activity: Former Province of Sandomierz.
Manager: Kamila Załuska M. A.
The Museum was founded is 1956. Collecting
began in 1960. Quantity of exhibits: 113

Section)

of ethnographic

Museum in the open at Bieliny
Address: Bieliny, pow. Kielce. Ethnographic
Centre
skie Museum in Kielce.

exhibits

of the Świętokrzy-

Active since 1957. Exhibits: a hut dating back from the XVIIth
and interior of a hut dating from the XIXth century.
6. Province

Director: Marian Sikora, M.A. assistant Maria Pocałujko-Kubielas
Number of exhibits: 370. The richest collections are folk household
and weaving.

of Koszalin

Museum in Koszalin (Ethnographic
Collection)
Address: Koszalin, ul. Czerwonej Armii 53, phone 37-30
Range of activity: Province of Koszalin

century

in Darłowo

(Ethnographic

M.A.
effects

Section)

Address: Darłowo, District of Sławno, Zamkowa 4, phone 151
Range of activity: District of Sławno and a part of the seaside territory
of the Koszalin and Słupsk Districts
Manager: Hieronim Fiodorow and 2 scientific-educational
officers.
The collection of exhibits dates from 1923. The Museum was opened after
the war in 1945. Total number of exnibits: 286. The richest collection are:
household effects, ceramics, equipment of the weaving chamber.
Publications:
folder
Museum

of Middle

Pomerania

in Słupsk

(Ethnographic

Section)

Address: Słupsk, Zamek KSIąŻąt Pomorskich,
ul. Dominikańska
6.
Range of activity: Province of Koszalin.
Director: Janusz Przewoźny, M. A, assistant
of Ethnographie
Section:
Hugona Ostrowska M. A.
Collecting of exhibits began about 1920. The Museum was foun,ded in
1924. Total number of exhibits:
563. The richest collection of exhibits
concerns the material culture of the Slovinians.
Museum

in Złotów

(Ethnographic

Section)

Address: Złotów, Plac Zamkowy 5, phone 376.
Range of activity: District of Złotów
Manager: Bogumiła Traczyk M. A. with one scientific worker.
The collecting commenced in 1962. The Museum was founded in the same
year. Number of exhibits: 332. The richest collection is: weaving (tools and
textiles). The Museum is carrying out field research work.
Museum

in the open at Kluki

(Slovinian

farm)

Address: Kluki, District of Słupsk, Province of Koszalin, phone Smołdzino 38. a branch of the Museum in Słupsk.
Range of activity: the Land of the Slovinians
Collecting of exhibits was started in 1959. The farm was opened to VISItors in 1963. Quantity of buildings: 5. Total number of exhibits 344. The
richest of exhibits concern the material culture of the Slovinians.
Publications:
Guidebook.
Museum in the open Jamno, District Koszalin (in organization).
Museum in the open Stara Święta, District Złotów (in organization)

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7. Province

of Kraków

Ethnographic
Museum in Kraków
Address: Kraków, Plac Wolnica 1, phone 571-53
Range of activity: the whole Poland and the Slav countries; furthermore,
exhibits from Africa, Java, New Guinea and separate objects from other
countries.
Director: Prof. dr. Tadeusz Seweryn. There are 13 scientific workers in
the Nluseum, one of them being a docent.
Collecting of exhibits began in 1905 and in the same year the Museum
was founded. The total number of exhibits amounts to 28671 (J5,950 Polish
exhibits, 10011 exhibits from other European countries and 2539 from nonEuropean countries). The richest coJJection is folk art of the Province of
Cracow. The Museum is carrying out research work and coJJects manu-'
scripts, folklore and other materials.
The inventory of the iconographic
archives counts about 20.000 items.
Publications:
Works and Materials of the Ethnographic
Museum in Cracow (a new publication in press) catalogues, guidebooks.
National Museum in Kraków
Address: AI. 3 Maja, Kraków. Main building and other buildings.
Changeable expositions and storehouses with ethnographic
exhibits: Kraków, Smoleńsk 9.
Range of activity: All- Poland and world-wide range.
Director: Dr. Andrzej Banach. Custodian of the Art Industry
Section:
Dr. B. Daszyńska. Custodian of the Weaving Section: Dr. Maria Rychlewsku. Custodian of the Ceramics: Dr. J. Taszycka.
Collecting of exhibits began in 1879. Quantity of ethnographic
exhibits:
over 2000. The richest collections are: ceramics from Poland and from other
Slav countires; ceramics from Kamerun, Peru and Bolivia, Tissues from
Slav countries and Hungary. The Museum is carrying out research work.
Publications:
dissertations
and reports of the National Museum in Cracow, monographs, catalogues, etc.
Publications:
dissertations
and reports of the National Museum in Cracow.
Museum in the open in Kraków
Address: Kraków - Wola Justowska.
The Museum contains a small
church, a presbytery
and granary
under the care of the parish Office
Number of ancient buildings: 3.

Director: docent, dr. Jerzy Dobrzycki.
The collecting of exhibits was commenced in 1899; the foundation of the
Museum took place in the same year. Number of ethnographic
exhibits: 47.
Cracow creches and puppet hobbyhorses
called lajkoniki.
The richest
ethnographic
collection concerns the historyand
culture of the City of
Cracow in the domain of folk customs; Jewish folklore. The Museum cal'·
ries out scientific investigations
and collects folklore material.
Publications:
Kronika miasta Krakowa
(HCronicle of the City of Cracow") and catalogues.
Museum in Bochnia (Ethnographic
Section).
Address: Bochnia, Rynek 18, phone 495.
Range of activity: District of Bochnia and the territory of Little Poland.
Director:
Prof. Stanisław
Fischer,
and 2 coworkers.
(ethnographer
wanted)
Collecting
of exhibits
began about 1897. The Museum was founded
in 1957. Quantity of exhibits: about 603. The richest collection is: folk art
(painting and sculpture).
The Museum has also a coUection of artistic
handicraft
from non- European Countries:
384 exhibits. The Museum is
carrying out research work and collects folklore material.
Publications:
Museum guidebook to be brought out soon.
Regional Museum 0f the PTTK (Polish Society for Tourism).
Muszyna. (Ethnographic
Collection).
Address: Muszyna, pow. N::-wy Targ, ul. Kity 16.
Range of activity: City of Muszyna with vicinity.
Social Custodian: Karol Rojna
Collecting began in 1943. The Museu~ was founded in 1958. Number of
exhibits: 39. The richest collection is folk aj:t. The Museum collects folklore
material.
Museum in Nowy Sącz (Ethnographic Section)
Address: Nowy Sącz, ul. Lwowska 3, phone 83-67
Range of activity: the territory of Ziemia Sądecka.
Manager: Zbigniew Borowski, and 1 scientific and educatioT1~1 coworker
(ethnographer
wanted).
Collecting of exhibits began in 1909. The Museum was founded in t938
and reopened after the war in 1946. Total number of exhibits 695, The Museum is gathering folklore material.
Museum in Nowy Targ (Ethhnographic
Collection).
Address: Nowy Targ, ul. Szaflarska 1, phone 334.
Attached to PTTK (Polish Society for Tourism) "Gorce"
Range of activity: The area of Nowy Targ and of the vicinity.
Manager: Czesław Pajerski, Custodian

The Historical Museum in Kraków
(Ethnographic
Collections)
Address: Kraków, Pl. SW. Ducha 5, phone 544-98
Range of activity: City of Cracow.
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Collecting of exhibits was commenced in 1959. The Museum was founded
is 1962. Quantity of exhibits: about 150. The richest collections concern the
culture of the ancient guilds and old-time house interiors. The Museum is
collecting folklore material.
Publications:
catalogues to be published shortly.
Władysław

Orkan's

Museum

in Rabka

(Ethnographic

Museum)

Address: Rabka, ul. Krakowska 36, phone 12-32.
Range of activity: District of Limanowa, northern part of the Nowy Targ
District, southern part of the Myślenice District, eastern part of the Sucha
District.
Manageress: Maria Lechowska-Bujakowa
M.A. (ethnographer).
Collecting of exhibits was commenced in 1928. The Museum was founded
in 1936. Number of exhibits: 1279. The richest collection is the folk art. Thc=
Museum is carrying out research work and collects materials
concerning
shepherd folklore.
Publications:
Museum guidebook.
Museum

in Tarnów

(Ethnographic

Section)

Address: Tarnów, ul. Kniewskiego 24, phone 194
Range of activity: Districts: Tarnów, Dąbrowa-Tarnów,
Brzesko, Dębno.
Manageress:
Paulina
Chrzanowska
M.A. and 1 assisting
coworker.
(ethnographer
wanted).
Collecting of ethnographic
exhibits began in 1957. The number of exhibits:
about 100.
The richest collections are paintings
from Zalipie and toys from Dąbrowa, Tarnów District.
Museum of the Cracow Salt Mines in Wieliczka (in organization
stage)
Address: Wieliczka, pow. Kraków, Park Kingi, skrytka pocztowa 20, phone 227.
Range of activity: salt mines in Wieliczka and Bochnia, Carpathian
submontane salt territories
and other salt mines, both unactive and exploited.
Director: Alfons Długosz.
Total

number

of scientific

worekrs

8. (ethnographers

wanted).

Collecting of exhibits was commenced in 1950. Number of exhibits 380 ancient tools and mining fittings; about 60 exhibits - sculptures carved in
salt and in wood. The Museum is carrying out research work and collects
folklore material.
Publications:
"Studia i Materiały z Historii Górnictwa Solnego" (Studies
and Materials on the Salt Mining History), catalogues, guidebooks, folders
and albums (in preparation).

(Attached to the Museum as its component part are 10 sets of ancient
wooden machines and mining gear dating from the XVIth up to the XIXth
century).
The Tatra

Mountains

T. Cha lubiński Museum in Zakopane (Ethnographic
Section)
ul. Krupówki 10, phone 30-05.
The Tatra Lower Highlands
(Podhale), Spisz and

Address: Zakopane,
Range of activity:
Orawa.
Director of the Museum: Prof. Juliusz Zborowski (died June 1965) with
his staff composed of 6 scientific workers, one of them docent.
Collecting of exhibits was commenced in 1889. The Museum was founded
in 1888. The "Tea" Department
was opened in 1910. Total amount of
exhibits: 5801. The richest collections concern shepherding,
decorative art
and pictures painted on glass. The Museum carries out scientific invest;gations and collects manuscripts,
folklore and other materials. Iconographic
archives.
Publications:
guide books and a folder.
Museum in the open
Address: Zakopane, Tea, Bulwar Słowackiego 39.
A hut fully equipped, dating from the XVUIth century.
Patroness:
Janina Szymańska
Museum in Zywiec (Ethnographic
Section)
Address: Żywiec, ul. Kościuszki 5, phone 21-24.
Range of activity: the Land of Żywiec.
Manager: Jan Studnicki, and 1 ethnographer.
Collecting of exhibits was begun in 1925. The Museum was founded in
1936. Total number of exhibits: 736. The Museum is carrying out research
work and collects folklore materials.
Museum in the open
The Orawa Ethnographic
Park in Zubrzyca Górna
Address: Zubrzyca Górna, pow. Nowy Targ, Dwór Moniaków.
Range of activity: 12 villages of the Polish Orawa Górna (Upper Orawa).
Manageress:
Wanda Jostowa M. A. Custodian of the Tatra Museum in
Zakopane.
Collecting of exhibits was commenced in 1955; the Museum was founded
in the same year. Quantity of exhibits: the Moniaków manor, farm buildings,
the inn from Podwik and other objects; the total amount of buildings and
household fittings is 12; inner equipment
of the houses
counting
363
exhibits.
A Song and Dance group is attached to the Museum.
Publications:
guidebook to the Museum.

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Museum in the open
Zakopane. Harenda. Ancient church dating from the XVIIIth century
transferred
from Zakrzów. District Wadowice Divine service is held there).

Quanitity
of ethnographis
exhibits: 806. The richest
weaving in the northern part of the Lublin Provrince.
Museum

8. Province

of Lublin

Museum in Lublin (Ethnographic
Section)
Address: Lublin, Zamek, phone 25-53, 89-77, 89-79.
Range of activity: Province of Lublin and the adjacent territories
(Provinces of Warszawa, Kielce, Białystok and Rzeszów).
Director: J. Iskrzycka M. A.
Manager of the Ethnographic
Section: Janusz Optołowicz M.A.
The total number of scientific workers and educational officers is 20 (3 of
them in the Ethnographic
Section).
Collecting of exhibits was started in 1901. The Museum was opened in
1906. Quantity of exhibits 9060. The richest collection is the folk art (ceramics, weaving, ornamented
Easter eggs, paper cutouts, sculpture and treatment of wood)
The Museum is carrying out scientific research and collects folklore and
other materials. The iconographic archives contain about 4000 items.
Publications:
Studia i Materiały
Lubelskie
(Lublin Studies and Mate~ials). Catalogues.
Museum in the open (in organization stage).
Museum in Chełm (Ethnographic
Section)
Address: Chełm, ul. Lubelska 55
Range of activity: District of Chełm.
Manager: Kazimierz Janczykowski
The Museum was opened in 1919, the Ethnographic Section in 1935. Quantity of exhibits: 786.
The Museum in Krasnystaw (Ethnographic Section)
Address: Krasnystaw, ul. Nicznickiego 3.
Range of activity: District of Krasnystaw.
Manager: Zygmunt Tokarzewski
Collecting of exhibits was commenced in 1930. The Museum was opened
in 1958. Number of exhibits: 358.
Publications: folder.
Museum in Łuków (Ethnographic
Section - in organization)
Address: - the Museum has not got any premises of its own.
Range of activity: northern part of the Lublin Province
Manager: Longin Kowalczyk ethnographer
Opening planned: 1964

Address:

Zamość,

Range of activity:
mcść and Biłgoraj)
Manageress:

in Zamość

ul. Ormiańska
southern

(Ethnographic
26, phone

collection

is the

Section)

24-83.

part of the Lublin

Province

(Districts

of Za-

Maria L.orentz M. A.

Collecting of exhibits was commenced in 1925. The Museum was founded
in 1937 and the Ethnographic
Section also in the same year. Quantity of
exhibits: 985. The richest collections concern the treatment
of flax and
clay, food preparation.
Museum

in the open (in organization

9. Province

stage)

of Łódź

Archaeologic and Ethnographic
Museum in Łódź
Address: Łódź, Pl. Wolności 14, phone 279-08, 348-90, 322-97, 339-13
Range of activity: the whole Poland.
Director of the Museum: Prof. dr. K. JaŻdŻewski.
Manager of the Ethnographic
Collective: J. P. Dekowski M.A. custodian, assistants
are 8 scientrric
workers
and 2 scientificeducational
officers.
Collecting of the exhibits was commenced in the period between the two
World Wars but the main part of collecting work was carried out in
1955-196:1. The Museum was founded in 1931 (up to 1956 it was an Autonomous Ethnographic
Museum) The total amount of exhibits reaches 11.202.
The most important collections are: folk art and folk clothing. The Museum is carrying out scientific researches and collects manuscript materials.
Folklore Archives.
Publications:
"Prace i Materiały Muzeum Archeołogicznego
i Etr.ograficznego w Łodzi, Seria Etnograficzna"
("Works and Materials
of the
Archaeologic and Ethnographic
Museum in Łódź, ("Ethnographic
series"),
guidebooks to exhibitions, catalogues.
Museum
Address:
Range

in Łęczyca
Łęczyca, Zamek,

of activity:

Head of the Museum

District

phone

603, 24-09

of Łęczyca

and Poddębice

and of the Ethnographic

Section:

Jadwiga

Gradzin

Collecting of exhibits began in 1957. Quantity of relics (peasant art):
The Museum is carrying out scientific researches. Folklore Archive

920.

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Museum

in

Łowicz

(Department
of the National Museum in Warsaw Ethnographic
Section)
Address: Łowicz, Rynek Kościuszki 4, phone 928.
Range of activity: the former Principality
of Łowicz.
Manager:
Henryk
Świątkowski,
M.A. and one scientific-educational
coworker.
Collecting of exhibits was commenced in 1952; the Museum was opened
in the same year. Quantity of exhibits: 3500. The richerst collection is composed of garments and paper cutouts.
The Museum is carrying out research work.
Publications:
catalogues of the exhibitions.
Museum in the open in Łowicz attached to the Museum of Łowicz.
Quantity of ancient buildings: 3 (a hut, a stable and a storeroom dating
from the XVlIIth century. Two peasant farms dating from the XVIIIth
and XIXth century are going to be transferred
in the future).
Regional

Museum

in Pabianice

(Ethnographic

Section)

Address: Pabianice, Pl. Obrońców Stalingradu 1, phone 25-02.
Range of activity: Districts of Łask, Łódź, Bełchatów.
Manageress:
Maria Kepler
M. A. and one scientific
worker
(ethnographer).
Collecting of exhibits was commenced in 1962. Quantity of ethnographic
exhibits: 203, (34 from Poland and 169 from Africa). The Museum is carl')'!ing out research work.
Publications:
catalogues.
Museum

in Piotrków

Trybunalski

(Ethnographic

Section)

Address: Piotrków Trybunalski,
Plac Zamkowy 4, phone 24_53.
Range of activity: District of Piotrków Trybunalski,
and partly Districts
of Bełchatów and Brzeziny and other territories
of Poland.
The post of the manager is vacant; 1 scientific-educational
worker.
Collecting of exhibits began in 1910; the Museum was founded about 1918
and the Ethnographic
Section in 1956. Quantity of exhibits: 488. The richest
collections are: the folk garments of the Piotrków region, ceramics (Opoczno, Iłża).
Publications:
guidebook to the museum and catalogue.
Museum of Rawa Land in Rawa
Address: Rawa Mazowiecka, Baszta Zamkowa
Range of activity: Rawa District. Head of the Museum: Józef Prociow
Collecting of exhibits began in 1960. Museum was opened in 1963. Quantity of exhibits:
165. The richest collection: weaving, costumes, papercutouts, painted eggs, paper decorations.

Museum in Sieradz (Ethnographic
Section)
Address: Sieradz, ul. Dominikańsh:a 2, phone 639.
Range of activity: District of Sieradz and Łask and partly
Wieluń and Radomsko.
Manageress:
Zofia Neymanowa

M. A.

and

Districts

of

scientific-educational

2

workers.
Collecting of ethnographic
exhibits was commenced and the ethnographic
section organized in 1950. The Museum was founded in 1937. Quantity of
exhibits: 1206. The most important collections are: folk art and folk garments. The Museum is carrying out scientific investigations
and collects
folklore materials.
Publications:
Studies
Regional

Museum

and Materials

to the history

of the Sieradz

of the PTTK (Polish Society for Tourism)
(Ethnographic
Collections)

Land.

in Sulcjów

Address: Sulejów na Podklasztorzu,
phone 58.
Range of activity: Sulejów and its nearest vicinity.
Custodian: Zacheusz Misiurski (social worker).
Collecting of exhibits was commenced in 1954. The Museum was founded
in 1950. Total number of ethnographic
exhibits: 24.4. The Museum is collecting folklore material.
Museum

in Tomaszów

Mazowiecki

(Ethnographic

Section)

Address: Tomaszów Mazowiecki, ul. Armii Ludowej 15, phone 748.
Range of activity: Districts: Opoczno, Rawa Mazowiecka, Brzeziny and
a part of the Piotrków District.
Manager: Józef Jastrzębski
M. A. and custodian,
1 adjunct
(both are
ethnographers)
and 1 educational officer.
Collecting of exhibits was commenced in 1927. Total number of exhibits:
2175. The most important
collections are: folk art and folk garments. The
Museum is carrying out scientific researches and collects manuscript
folklore materials.
Museum in the open in the Park surrounding
Museum
The Łowicz Creative

the Palace (in organization).

in the open

Chamber

in Złaków

Borowy

Address: Złakaw Borowy, pow. Łowicz, dom Justyna Grzegary.
Patronate:
The Folish Union or Cooperatives
of the Folk Art Industry
and Artcraft. (CPLiA) phone 853.
Range of activity: Złaków Borowy and a part of the Łowicz District.
The Chamber was opened 1962. Quantity of exhibits: about 250 items
(interior of a hut). Demonstration
of all kind of work e. g. handicraft, folk
art etc.

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Range of ativity: Mazuria, Warmia, and part of the Vistula Banks.
Manager: Józef Wieczerzak M.A. and 1 scientific worker.
The Museum was founded in Królewiec in 1909 and transferred to Olsztynek in 1938. The Museum was built up after the War. Quantity of ancient
buildings: 13. Quantity of movables: 157. The most important
collectio~s
are: wooden architecture
and equipment of the interiors. The Museum IS
carrying out scientific research ..,\Tork.

of Olsztyn

The Mazurian Museum in Olsztyn (Ethnographic
Section).
Address: Olsztyn, ul. Zamkowa 2, phone 24-74.
Range of activity: Warmia, Mazuria, aBnks of Lower Vistula.
Director of the Museum: Hieronim Skurpski.
Ethnographic
Section: Dr. Franciszek Klonowski, manager; 11 scientificeducational workers (1 in the Ethnographic
Section).
Collecting of the ethnographic
exhibits was commenced in 1945 and the
Museum founded in the same year. The total amount of the ethnographic
exhibits is 1405 items (including a pre-war collection). The main collection
is folk art (including tissues and artistic tiles). The Museum is carrying
out research work and collects manuscript
folklore and other materials.
Iconographic
archives.
Publications:
Rocznik Olsztyński (Yearbook of Olsztyn), catalogues.
Museum

in Kętrzyn

(Ethnographic

11. Province

Museum of the Opole Silesia in Opole (Ethnographic
Section)
Address: Opole, Mały Rynek 7, phone 28-73, 46-11.
Range of activity: Province of Opole
Director: Ignacy Kuźniewski
Manageress
of the Ethnographic
Section: Helena Jakubowska,
M. A.
Collecting of the ethnographic
exhibits was commenced in 1945; the ~IUseum was founded in 1900. Total number of exhibits: 2208. The most Important part of the collection concerns the folk art and folk dress (a sma~l
part of the garments was gathered
before the war). T~e Museum IS
carrying out scientific- investigations
and, collects manuscnpt
folklore and

Collections)

Address: Kętrzyn, ul. Powstańc6w Warszawy 1, phone 282.
Range of activity: environs of Kętrzyn.
Manageress: Zofia Licharewa, custodian.
Collecting of exhibits was commenced before 1944/45. The Museum
opened in 1947. Quantity of ethnographic
exhibits: 42.

was

other materials. Iconographic Archives.
publications:
The Opole Museum Yearbook

Museum of Lubawa Land in Nowe Miasto Lubawskie
Address: Nowe Miasto Lubawskie, ul. 19 stycznia 12
Range of activity: the neighbourhood
of Grunwald. Administration
head:
Maria N owińska
Collecting of exhibits began in 1957; the Museum was opened in 1959
Quantity of exhibits: 89
The Mazurian

Museum

in Szczytno

(Ethnographic

Catalogues to exhibitions.
Museum in the open: Birkowice,
Museum

Address:

in the

open

Olsztynek,

in Olsztynek

(Section

of the

Olsztyn)
pow. Ostróda, phone Olsztynek

Section)

Mazurian

Museum

District

("Opalski

Rocznik Muzealny").

.
.,
of Opole (m orgamzatlOn).

in Brzeg (Ethnographic

Section)

Address: Brzeg, Plac Zamkowy 1, phone 12-57
Range of activity: District of Brzeg.
Manager: Jan Przała M. A.
•
Collecting of exhibits was commenced in 1901. The Museum was rounded
in 1910. Quantity

Address: Szczytno, Plac Juranda, phone 437
Range of activity: District of Szczytno, Mrągowo, Pisz, Nidzica and part
of the Biskupiec Warmiński District.
Manager: Jan Jałoszyński
Collecting of exhibits was commenced about 1910. The Museum was opened in 1928. Quantity of exhibits: 588.
Publications:
a catalogue
The Museum is planning to equip the interior of a l\'Iazurian hut with
household effects for demonstration
purposes in Szczytno.
Museum

of Opole

of ethnographic

exhibits:

Jan Dzierżon

Museum

283.
in Kluczbork

Address: Kluczbork, ul. 15 Grudnia 12, phone 707
Range of activity: territory of the Opole Silesia.
.
Manager: Roman Pastwiński, M.A. and one scientific-educatIOnal
Collecting of exhibits began in 1956. The Museum was founded
Quantity

of exhibits:

about

50 (apiculture).

Museum in Nysa (Ethnografic

Section)

Address: Nysa, ul. Marcinkawskiego
l, phone 30-83.
Range of activity: District of Nysa.
Manager: Tadeusz Chruścicki, M. A.

in

164.

-

:varkel'.
m 1957.

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Collecting of exhibits was commenced in 1945. The museum was founded
in the same year. Number of exhibits: 350 (prewar collection). Publications: catalogues.
Museum

in Oleśno Śląskie,

Department
of the Museum of the Opole Silesia
(Ethnographic
Section)
Address: Oleś no Śląskie, ul. Pieloka 18, telephone 398.
Range of activity: District of Oleś n o Śląskie.
Manager: Konrad Hanisch, M. A; one ethnographer.
Collecting of exhibits was commenced in 1959. The Museum was founded
in 1960. Quantity of ethnographic
exihibits: 93. The richest collection: interior of a peasant hut completely set up. The Museum is carrying out
scientific investigations.
Museum in Racibórz (Ethnographic
Section)
Address: Racibórz, ul. Chopina 12, telephone: 901, 28-41
Range of activity: Districts of Racibórz, Głubczyce, Koźle and Prudnik.
Manager: Janusz Kozłowski, M. A., and two coworkers,
one of them
being an ethnographer
and the other a scientific-educational
officer.
The Museum was opened in 1927 and reopened after the war in 1948.
Total number of ethnographic
exhibits: 668 (part of them being a pre-war
collection of garments). The Museum is carrying ant research work.
12. Province
Ethnographic

of Poznań

in Poznań. (Department
of the National
Museum in Poznań)
Address: Poznań, Grobla 25, for correspondence:
Aleje Marcinkawskiego 9, telephones: 13-04, 21-04, 612-01 (extention 341).
Range of activity: al Poland with prevalence of exhibits from Great Poland and the Ziemia Lubuska territory, non-European
cOllections from Mexico, Africa, New Guinea.
Manager: dr Stanisław Błaszczyk, and three scientific workers.
Collecting of exhibits was commenced in 1910. The ethnographic
museum
collections were initiated in 1911; the Museum was reopened in 1949. The
tc'tal number of exhibits amounts to 4312, the Polish ones making 3196 and
the non-European
1116 items. The principal collection: folk garments. The
Museum is carrying out research work and collects manuscript
materials.
Iconographic Archives.

Address:

of the National
Museum
guidebook and folders.

Museum in Kalisz (Ethnographic
Ul. Kościuszki 12, telephone: 36-62.

Museum in Konin attached to PTTK (Polish Society for Tourism) (Ethnographic Collections)
Address: Konin, ul. Słowackiego 8, private phones: 599 and 760.
Range of activity: the District of Konin in its historical boundaries.
Manager: Social Custodian Zygmunt Pęcherski.
Collecting of exhibits was commenced in 1956 and the Museum was foun~ed in the same year. Quantity of ethnographic
exhibits: 28. The Museum IS
collecting folklore materials.
Museum

of the Krotoszyn

Section)

called

"Museum

Land

(Ethnographic

Section)

Range of activity: District of Krotoszyn.
"
.
Managers: address Krotoszyn, ul. Koźmińska
36: LudWIk KaczynskI.
Collecting of the Museum exhibits began in 1958. The Museum. was founded in 1957. Number of ethnographic
exhibits: 99. The Museum IS collectIng
folklore materials.
Museum

Museum

Publicatior:s:
a periodical
Studies" ("Studia Muzealne"),

Range of activity: the former territory of the Kalisz Land.
Manager: Bogumił Kunicki, M. A
Collecting of exhibits after the war began in 1957. The Museum was
founded in 1907. Number of ethnographic
exhibits: about 250. ~he most
important
collections are: agricultural
tools, tools for flax workmg, garments and folk art.

in Leszno

(Ethnographic

section)

Address: Leszno, Plac D-ra Metziga 17, phone 474.
.
Range of activity: Leszno, Wolsztyn, Kościan, Gostyń, Krotoszyn, RaWICZ,
Wschowa.
Manager: Stanisław Chmielewski M. A (ethnographer)
_
Number of exhibits: 872. The principal collection is: Folk castume ana
especially head-gear collection. The Museum is carrying out research work.
Publications:
folder (in the making).
Regional Museum in Pyzdry (Ethnographic
Collections)
Address: Pyzdry, powiat Września, Plac Wolności 17, phone Prez. MRN
nr 3.
Range of activity: the town of Pyzdry and its vicinity.
Manager: Kazimierz
Kraska.
.
Collecting of exhibits began in 1956. The Museum was founded m 1957.
Quantity of exhibits: 15. The Museum is located in an arcaded house of the
XVlIIth century.
Museum of the Sulmierzyce Land.
Attached to the F. S. Klonowicz' Society
Land. (Ethnographic
Collections)

of Lovers

of the Sulmierzyce

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Address: Sulmierzyce,
powiat
Council nr 18. Range of activity:
Manager: Leon Piątek.

Krotoszyn, phone of the National
Sulmierzyce and its vicinity.

Town

Collecting of exhibits was commenced in 1956. The Museum was founded
in 1957. Quantity of ethnographic
exhibits: 238.
Museum of the Szamotuły Land (Ethnographic
Section)
Address: Szamotuły, Baszta Halszki, phone 601, extention 47.
Range of activity: District of Szamotuły.
Manager: Janusz Łopata M. A. and one ethnographer.
Coll.ecting of exhibits began in 1956. The Museum was founded in 1957.
~u.anbty of ethnographic
exhibits: 185. The Museum is carrying out scienbflc researches.
Publications:
catalogues.

13. Province

of Rzeszów

Museum in Rzeszów (Ethnographic
Section)
Address: Rzeszów, ul. 3 Maja 19, phone 39-78 and 44-17.
Ran~e of a.ctivi ty: the whole Province and especially 3 regions: the regions
of t~e mhabltants
called Rzeszowiacy, Lasowiacyand
Podgórzanie.
DIrector: dr Franciszek Błoński.
!he. ~thnographic
sCIentIfIc workers.

Section:

Docent Dr Franciszek

Kotula managEr a"d two
..

Collecting of exhibits began
and continued
in ten years (between
the. t:vo World Wars.). The Museum was founded in 1935. Quantity of
eX~lblts: 7399. The most important collections are: folk garments
embroiderIes, sculptures and pictures, ritual objects, household effects' and agricultural. tools. The Museum is carrying out research work and collects
manus?rIp~ folklore and other materials. Iconographic Archives.
Pub:lcatlOns: Papers of the Museum in Rzeszów and Annals of the Museum m Rzeszów ("WYdawnictwo Muzeum w Rzeszowie", "Roczniki Muzeum w Rzeszowie") (in the making).
Regional Museum in Biecz (Ethnographic
Address: Biecz, powiat Gorlice, ul. Kromera.
Range of activity: the city of Biecz and its region.
Manager: Tadeusz Sławski, M. A.

Collections)

ThLe~Museum .was founded in 1953. Quantity of ethnographic
exhibits:
aeou, :10. The rrchest collection concerns the handicraft
and the
spiritual
culture of the middle class.

The Regional

Museum of the PTTK in Gorlice (POlish Society for Tourism)
(Ethnographic
Collections)

Address: Gorlice, ul. Wąska 11, phone 25.
Range of activity: District of Gorlice, the Lower Beskid (Beskid Niski).
Manager: Alfred Wacławski
Collecting of exhibits began in 1918. The Museum was founded in 1958.
Quantity of exhibits: 225. The most important collection concerns sculpture,
garments and petroleum industry. The Museum is collecting folklore materials.
Publications:
catalogues.
Museum

in Jarosław

(Ethnographic

Section)

Address: Jarosław, Rynek 4, phone 779
Range of activity: District of Jarosław and the villages in the neighbouhood.
Manager and custodian: Dr. Kazimierz Gottfried, one scientific worker.
Collecting of exhibits began in 1921. The Museum was founded in 1925.
Number of exhibits: 117. The most important collection concerns the middle
class ethnography.
The Museum is carrying out scientific investigations.
Museum

in Krosno

(Ethnographic

collections)

Address: Krosno nad Wisłokiem, ul. Nowotki 16, phone 63-76, 65-71.
Range of activity: District of Krosno
Manager: Józef Janowski M. A.
Colrecting of exhibits began in 1954; the Museum was founded in the
same year. Number of ethnographic
exhibits: 96. The richest collections:
garments and folk art; petroleum industry. The Museum is carrying out
scientific investigations
and collects folklore materials.
Publications:
cataloguQs.
Museum

in Przemyśl

(Ethnographic

Section)

Address: Przemyśl, Plac Czackiego 3, phone 23-35.
Range of activity: District of Przemyśl, Jarosław and Lubaczów; some
parts of the exhibits comes from the adjacent territories:
the area of the
Rzeszów Province, the land of the Bojki and of the Huzuls, Pokucie, Podolia and Volhynia.
The director of the Museum is Antoni Kunysz M. A. and one scientific
worker, Mgr Stefan Lew, ethnographer.
Collecting of exhibits began at the end of the XIXth century. The M~seum was founded in 1909. The total number of exhibits is 1360. The mam
collections are: fishing, beekeeping. agriculture, folk costumes, ornamented
Easter eggs. The Museum is carrying out research work.

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Address:

735
Museum in Sanok (Ethnographic
Sanok, ul. Zamkowa 3, phone 708.

Range of activity: District
of the Krosno District.

Collections)

of Sanok, Lesko, Brzozów, Ustrzyki,

and a part

Manager: Stefan Stefański;
three scientific-educational
officers.
Collecting of exhibits began in 1934; the Museum was founded in the
same year. Total amount of ethnographic
exhibits: 845. The main collection
concerns material culture and garments.
Museum

Address of the Exhibition
phone Sanok 24-01.

Center:

Park

Etnograficzny

are located

Kolbuszowa, District of Kolbuszowa.
Nature and Culture Relics Lovers.

Goslar's

Museum

of

Sanok,

Lubaczów,
Tourism.

Exhibits transferred:
an Orthodox church dating from the XVIIth cen_
tury with a small campanile and a charnel house; 2 peasant huts.
Relics stored up: Orthodox
church dating from the XVIIth century,
small wooden chapel dating from the XIXth century, oil mill and the hut
of an oil miller, granary dating from the XVIIIth century, 2 huts of Bojki
peasants and a country house.

The Museum is carrying out scientific investigations
and collects
script folklore and other materials. Iconographic archives.

collections

on the

Director: Aleksander
Rybicki, custodian of the Museum. Four Scientific
workers, three of them being ethnographers.
. Collecting of exhibits was commenced in 1958; the Museum was founded
In the same year.

1678.
manu-

Museum stations: Haczów, District of Brzozów - wooden church dating
from the XVth century; Ułucz, District of Brzozów - wooden orthodox
church dating from 1510; Blizno, District of Brzozów planned ethnographic
re~ervation with relics dating from the XVth and XVIth century
Furthemore,
there are other ethnographic
collections and reli~~ of folk
architecture
in the Province of Rzeszów which serve as museum buildings:
they are situated in the following localities:
Collections of various institutions:

of Ropczyce.

The ethnographic

So-

'

Dębica, District
ciety.

of Łańcut.

of the Social Cultural

w Olchoweach

of mobile exhibits:

District

Museum

Range of activity: southern part of the Rzeszów Province _ of Ustrzyki
Dolne, ~esko, Jasło, Gorlice, Strzyżów, Brzozów, a part of the District of
P:-zemysl (terr~tories inhabited by Bojki, Łemki, Dolinianie and Podgórzame) and the hIghland area of the Nowy Sącz District (Province of Cracow)
inhabited by the Łemki.

Total number of relic buildings: 13. The number
The richest collection: equipment of interiors.

Białobrzegi,
in a school.

Regional

in the open in Sanok

The Museum of Folk Architecture
in Sanok. Ethnographic
Park
borderline of the city of Sanok and the Olchowce village.
Address of the Direction
and Administration
of the Museum:
ul. Traugutta
3, phone 24-93.

Bartne, District of Gorlice (Ukrainian
Social - Cultural Society). Collections of the Łemki culture exhibited
in a wooden orthodox
church
dating from the XVIIIth century. Collections of Łemki stonework exhibits
in a stone granary dating from the XIXth cen tury and other ethnographic
collections in the village of Bielanka.

District

of Lubaczów.

Łańcut, District of Łańcut.
(Collections of Dr. Władysław

Museum

Social Museum.
Balicki).

of the
Polish

of the Society
Polish

Society

Ethnographic

for

Society

Przeworsk,

District

of Przeworsk.

Ropczyce,
Society.

District

of Ropczyce.

MUSeUlTIof the Regional

Social-Cultural

Strzyż ów, District

of Strzyżów.

Museum

Liceum-SchooI.

Szymbark,

of Gorlice.

Presidium
a Museum)

District

of the District

Social Museum.

National

connected

Council

(ancient

with

manor

changed

into

Private ethnographic
collections are also found in the following localities:
Jasło (folk art icons). Pruchnik, District of Jarosław. Sanok (the Huzul folk
art, especially ceramics, Rumanian ceramics-about
60 exhibits). Ustianowa
Dolna, District Ustrzyki Dolne (household effects and tools- about 70 exhibits) Wyszatyce, District of Przemyśl.

14. Pr.ovince of Szczecin
Museum of Western Pomerania,
Maritime
Section (Ethnographic
Hall)
Address: Szczecin, Wały Chrobrego 3, phone 422-56
Range of activity: Province of Szczecin
Director of the Mmeum: Władysław Filipowiak M. A.
Custodian of the Maritime Section: Dr. Wiktor Fenrych; One scientific
worker.
Collecting of the exhibits began in 1947. The Maritime Museum was
founded in 1945. The Museum of the Western Pomerania
was founded in
1950. Total number of exhibits: 1390 out of which 1100 are Polish and over
200 come from West Africa (some part of the Polish exhibits was collected

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before the war). The richest collection: water transport
an.d fishing. The
Museum is carrying out research work.
Publications:
West Pomerania
Materials ("Materiały
Zachodnio-Pomorskie"); catalogues.
15. Province
Warsaw

State

of Warsaw

Ethnographic

Museum

Address: Warszawa, ul. Szeroki Dunaj 5, phone 31-16-13.
Range of activity: all Poland, and the culture of primitive peoples of the
world.
Director: Prof. dr. Ksawery Piwocki
Assistant Director: Dr Kazimierz Pietkiewicz; total number of scientific
workers 16, scientific- educational officers 2; two of the scientific workers
are docents.
Collecting of exhibits began in 1947; the Museum was founded in the
same year. The total number of exhibits is 37.660, the Polish ones being
26.260, The rest i. e. 11.400 are exotic exhibits. The most important collection:
folk artistic culture. The Museum is carrying out scientific investigations
and collects manuscript materials. Iconographic Archives.
Publications:
"Zeszyty Etnograficzne
Muzeum Kultury i Sztuki w Warszawie" (Ethnographic Papers of the Museum of Culture and Art in Warsaw), catalogues of exhibitions.
Museum

in Płock (Ethnographic

Section)

Address: Płock, ul. Narutowicza 2, telephone 25-93, 28-31.
Range of activity: the Płock l\Iazovia.
Manager: Marian Sołtysiak M. A, 3 scientific workers, one of them being
an ethnographer.
Collecting of exhibits began in 1912; The Museum was founded in the
same year. Quantity of exhibits: 564. The richest collection concerns: sculpture, painted chests, paper-cutouts,
fishing. The Museum is carrying out
research work.
Publications:
"Kultura Ludowa Regionu Płockiego" (Folk Culture of the
Płock Region in preparation).
Museum in the open in Tatary
The Kurpian Creative Chamber
Address: Tatary pod Kadzidłem, pow. Ostrołęka, dom Czesławy Konopkówny. Patronage.
The Polish Union of Cooperatives
of the Folk Art
Industry and Artcraft Kadzidło. The Chamber is run by Czesława Konopkówna, a famous expert in paper cutouts. Quantity
of exhibits: about
50 including cutouts, chandeliers,
ritual pastry.

16. Province

of Wrocław

Demonstration
of cutouts making and of the decoration of interr'ors.
Ethnographic
Museum in Wrocław (Department
of the Silesian Museum
in Wrocław)
Address: Wrocław, ul. Kazimierza Wielkiego 33, phone 345-24.
Range of activity: Lower Silesia, Opole Silesia and Upper Silesia.
Manager and Keeper: Dr Leszek Itmann - three scientific workers.
Director of Silesian Museum: Mgr. Maria Starzewska.
Collecting of exhibits began after World War II, in 1947.
The Museum was founded in 1954. Total number of exhibits: 3035. The
iconographic archives have aoout 10,000 items. (partly pre-war collections).
The most important
collections are: folk plastic art, cabinetmaking
and
blacksmithery.
The Museum is carrying out research work and collects
manuscripts, folklore and other materials.
publications:
"Roczniki Ethnografii
Śląskiej,"
"Zeszyty Etnograficzne"
(Annals of Silesian Ethnography,
Ethnographic
Papers), catalogues.
Regional Museum in Chojnów (Ethnographic
Collections)
Address: Chojnów, pow. Złotoryja, Zamek Piastowski, Plac Zamkowy

3,

phone 163.
Range of activity: District of Złotoryja.
Manager: Adam Kogut.
Collecting of exhibits was commenced in 1959; The Museum was founded
in the same year. Quantity of exhibits: 103. The main collection is composed
of furniture tools for flax working, gingerbread
baking tins, pictures on
glass, bonnets.
Museum in Jawor
Address: Jawor, ul. Armii Radzieckiej 18, phone 107.
Range of activity: The Sudety submontane region and partly

Lower

Si-

lesia.
Manager: Włodzimierz Musiał.
Collecting of exhibits was commenced before the war. After the war the
Museum was opened in 1945. Quantity of ethnographic
exhibits: 127 (partly
pre-war collections). The richest collection: folk garments.
Regional

Museum

(Ethnographic

Section)

Address: Jelenia Góra, Matejki 28, phone 34-65.
Range of activity: the hollow of Jelenia Góra and Lower Silesia.
Manager: Zbisław Michniewicz M. A, and two scientific workers one of
them being an ethnographer.
Collecting of exhibits was initiated in 1912. The Museum was founded in
1914. Total number of exhibits: 1300 items (partly pre-war collections). The

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main collection concerns: glass painting
seum is carrying out research work.
Museum

and folk cabinetmaking.

in the open: a copy of a Lusatian

hut from Karpacz,

The Mu-

in 1960. Num'cer of exhibits: 397 (including also pre-war
Museum is carrying out scientific researches.
Publications: catalogue of a temporal exhibition.

dated 1914.

Museum in Kamienna Góra (Ethnographic
Collections)
Address: Kamienna Góra, Plac Wolności 24, phone 275.
Range of activity: District of Kamienna Góra, partly District
and Jelenia Góra.
Manager: Stanisław Sabak.

A guidebook

to the permanent

exhibition

of Jawor

to appear

shortly.

Museum in Wałbrzych (Ethnographic
Collection)
Address: Wałbrzych, ul. 19o Maja 9, phone 48-45.
Range of activity: Wałbrzych and its vicinity.
Manager: Eufrozyn Sagan.
Coll~cting was commenced in 1908. The Museum was opened in 1911.
Quantity of eth~ographic
exhibits: about 679. (Some of them belong to the
pre-war collection). The Museum has mining relics.
Publications:
A guidebook to the Museum.
Museum in Ziębice (Ethnographic
Collections)
Ziębice, powiat Ząbkowice Śląskie, ul. Przemysłowa

Address:
378.
Range: District of Ziębice Śląskie.
Manager: Wacław Brejter M. A.
Collecting of exhibits
founded in 1931.

after

the

10, phone

t.

ł

1

I
!

war

began

in 1950. The

Quantity of relics: 477 (some of them were collected
The richest collection: artistic handicraft.

Museum

was

before the war).

Museum in the open (a church where Divine Service is held).
Address: Karpacz-Bierutowice,
District of Karpacz, Province of Wrocław
(The little protestant
church called Wang dating from the XVIIth century
was transported
from Norway some 100 years ago).
17. Province of Zielona Góra.
Central Museum in Zielona Góra (Ethnographic
Section)
Address: Zielona Góra, Al. Niepodległości 15, phone 11-47.
Range of activity: Province of Zielona Góra.
Director: Klemens Felchnerowski
M. A.
Manager of he Ethnographic
Section: Barbara Kołodziejska
M. A.
Collecting of exhibits began after the war. The Museum was reopened

The

Museum in Gorzów Wielkopolski (Ethnographic
Collections)
Address: Gorzów Wielkopolski, ul. Warszawska 35, phone 28-43.
Range of activity: the City and the District of Gorzów, District of Strzelce
Krajeńskie, and a part of the Sulęcin and Rzepin Districts.
Manager: Henryk Przybylski
Collecting of exhibits was commenced in 1945; the Museum was reopened
in the same year. Quantity cf exhibits: 60 (including pre-war ones). The
most important collection: gingerbread baking tins.

C?l~ecting of exhibits was commenced in the XVIIIth century. Number of
e~hlbltS: abou~ 69~ (part of them belonging to the pre-war collection). The
rIchest collection IS weaving.
Publication:

collections).

Museum in Międzyrzecz Wielkopolski
(Ethnographic
Collections)
Address: Międzyrzecz Wielkopolski, Podzamcze 1/3 phone 567.
Range of activity: Dristricts of Międzyrzecz and Świebodzin and a part
of the Sulęcin and Sulech6w Districts.
Manager: Alfons Kowalski, and one scientific-educational
officer.
Collecting of exhibits was commenced in 1945; the Museum was reopened
in the same year. Quanity of exhibits: 536 (some part of them was collected
before the war).
Museum in Nowa Sól (Ethnographic
Section).
Address: Nowa S6l, ul. Świerczewskiego
26, phone 640.
Range of activity: Districts: Nowa Sól, Szprotawa,
Głog6w, Żary and
Żagań.
Manager: Aleksander
Fudalej, and one scientificeducational
officer
Collecting of exhibits was commenced in 1946. The Museum was reopened after the war in 1947. Quantity of ethnographic
exhibits: 223 (some part
of them was collected before the war).
Regional

Souvenir

Chamber in Babimost (The Society for Culture
Ziemia Lubuska Territory)
Address: Babimost, powiat Sulech6w, Dom Kultury.
Range of activity: District of Babimost.
Manager: Edward Rabiega M. A.
Opened since 1963. Quąntity of ethnographic
exhibits: 4.0. The
collection: agricultural
tools and folk garments.
IV. BIBLIOGRAPHY
OF THE POLISH ETHNOGRAPHIC
DIRECTING (CHOSEN WORKS AND ARTICLES)

of the

richest

lVIUSEUM

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Praca zbiorowa. Wydawnictwo Związku
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P i e ń k o w s k a H., The farm of the Moniak family in Zubrzyca Górna.
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Prace i Materiały
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R X, nr. 2 Warszawa
1957.
Specification
of wooden architecture
elaborated
by the Chair of Architecture and Village
Planning.
Annual reports.
(Wykazy inwentaryzacji
budownictwa
drewnianego.
Katedra
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Z n a m i e r o w s k a - P r li f f e r o waM.,
Protection
of folk culture relics.
Field guidebook, Toruń 1947. (Ochrona zabytków kultury ludowej. Poradnik terenowy.
Toruń 1947). Centralny
Instytut
Kultury.
Current continuous museum publications
of the
Board of Museums and Monuments
Protection.
Ministry of Culture and
Art. Zarząd Muzeów i Ochrony Zabytków,
Ministerstwo
Kultury
i Sztuki
Warszawa,
Krakowskie
Przedmieście,
15/17.
1. Information
Bulletin
(Biuletyn Informacyjny
Zarządu Muzeów i Ochrony Zabytków Ministerstwo
Kultury i Sztuki) A bimonthly edition.
2. Library
of Museum Directory
and Protection
of Monuments
(Biblioteka
Muzealnictwa
i Ochrony Zabytków).
3. Museum Directing
(Muzealnictwo).
4. Protection
of Monuments
(Ochrona Zabytków)
A quarterly
edition).
Furthermore,
permanent
museum publications
have been quoted in the
surveys of particular
museums (Białystok, Częstochowa, Gliwice, Grudziądz,
Katowice, Kielce, Lublin, Łódź, Olsztyn, Opole, Poznań, Rzeszów, Szczecin,
Toruń, Warszawa, Wrocław).
the open.

.

CURRENT

CONTINUOUS

.•.

.•.

ETHNOGRAPHIC

PUBLICATIONS.

Institute of Material Culture History. Polish Academy of Sciences. Instytut Historii Kultury Materialnej.
Polska Akademia Nauk. Warszawa, Nowy
Sw,iat 72, Pałac Staszica.
1. Library
of the Polish Ethnography
(Biblioteka Etnografii
Polskiej).
2. Polish Ethnography
(Etnografia Polska).
3. Polish Ethnographic
Atlas (polski Atlas Etnograficzny).
4. Works of The Ethnographic
Section. Institute
of the Material Culture
History. Polish Academy of Sciences (Prace Działu Etnografii
IHKM,
PAN).
Polish

Ethnographic

Society

(polskie Towarzystwo
Ludoznawcze,
Wrocław,
ul. Nankera 4)
1. People LUD (Rocznik PTL) Dział III Muzea.
2. Ethnographic
Archives
(Archiwum
Etnograficzne).
3. Atlas of the Polish Folk Costumes (Atlas Polskich
Strojów Ludowych).

(Biblioteka Popularna).
(Literatura
Ludowa). Bimonthly
edition. Address of the
editor's office: Warszawa, Nowy Swiat 72.
6. Ethnologic
Works (Prace Etnologiczne).
7. Ethnographic
Works
and Materials
(Prace i Materiały
Etnograficzne).
8. Oskar Kolberg's
Complete
Works
(Dzieła wszystkie
Oskara Kolberga).
Reedition containing the Polish verbal and musical folklore of the XIXth
and of the beginning of the XXth century. Up to now 38 volumes have
been published.
The total number of volumes planned is 65. Editor's

4. Popular
Library
5. Folk Literature

office: Poznań, ul. Kantaka
2.
9. Łódź Ethnographic
Stadi.es (Łódzkie
Institute

Studia

Etnograficzne).

of Art Polish Academy of Sciences (Instytu Sztuki PAN), Warszawa, Długa 26/28 ar Warszawa,
Srebrna 12 "Ruch")
1. Polish Folk Art (polska Sztuka Ludowa) a bimonthly
edition.
2. Bulletin of History of Art, A quarterly
edition.
3. Monographs
concerning the folk art.
In adition to the publications
mentioned
above, dispersed
ethnographic
articles can be found in University
Editions issued in parts (Zeszyty Uniwersyteckie)
and publi"hed
by the universities
of Kraków, Lublin, Łódź,
Poznań, Toruń, Warszawa
and Wrocław.
A delay in publishing
of this pamphlet,caused
an unvoluntary
omissio:1
of some newly organised or reorganised
museums (e.g. in Borzestawo, provo
of Gdańsk, distr. Kartuzy - (a museum in the open, one hut), in Sosnowiec, provo Katowice - (the Mining Museum of the Professional
Unions),
in Szreniawa,
near poznań - (Agricultural
Museum) etc., some inaccuracy
in the quantity
of given relics and names of new museum workers
etc.