National Museum, Wrocław
Muzeum Narodowe we Wrocławiu | |
National museum | |
Director | Dr Piotr Oszczanowski |
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Curator | Bożena Guldan-Klamecka |
Website | mnwr.pl |
The National Museum in Wrocław (Polish: Muzeum Narodowe we Wrocławiu), established 28 March 1947 and officially inaugurated on 11 July 1948, is one of Poland's main branches of the National Museum system. It holds one of the largest collections of contemporary art in the country.[1]
Conclusion of World War II
The holdings of Wrocław Museum are closely connected with the history of border shifts in
Most historic buildings in Wrocław were destroyed or heavily damaged during the Siege of Breslau. The new Polish Department of Museums and Heritage Protection (Referat Muzeów i Ochrony Zabytków, RMOZ) was entrusted with the task of selecting a suitable placement for the newly arriving cultural artefacts. The relatively undamaged location was chosen on January 1, 1947 among the ruins of the old city center, at the former Silesian regency office built in 1883–1886.[1]
Although the location of the National Museum and its collections were new in Wrocław, the actual tradition of art museums in the city was centuries old. Its predecessors included the Royal Museum of Art and Antiquity formed in 1815 (German: Königliches Museum für Kunst und Altertümer) and the Silesian Museum of Fine Arts created in 1880, as well as the Silesian Museum of Applied Arts formed in 1899. When Poland disappeared from the map of Europe at the end of the 18th century many artefacts produced by Polish artists and artisans were also displayed there.[1] In 2022, a painting by a follower of Lucas Cranach the Elder titled Lamentation completed in the 1530s, which had previously been stolen from the National Museum in 1946, shortly after the end of World War II, was returned to the museum.[3]
Permanent exhibits
Admission to the gallery is free on Saturdays. Among the permanent exhibitions set up on different floors of the museum are four distinct departments divided by art-periods and historical epochs. The oldest is the "Silesian Art of the 12th to 16th century", featuring tombs of Silesian princes and the most precious works of the
Apart from these exhibitions, the museum includes "Polish Art of the 20th century" collection with art of Tadeusz Makowski, Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Władysław Strzemiński, Henryk Stażewski, Alina Szapocznikow, Tadeusz Kantor, Tadeusz Makowski, Jerzy Nowosielski, Józef Szajna, Magdalena Abakanowicz, Paweł Althamer, Mirosław Bałka, Władysław Hasior, Katarzyna Kozyra, and many prominent others. Month of September 2011 marked the opening of "New Gallery of Contemporary Art" in the museum's remodelled attic.[5]
Gallery
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Pieter Brueghel the Younger, Winter Landscape (ca.1586)
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Georg Pencz, Christ in the Crown of Thorns (1544)
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Francisco de Zurbarán, Christ at the Column (1661)
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Lucas Cranach the Elder, Eve (ca. 1531)
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Bernardo Bellotto, Entrance of Jerzy Ossoliński to Rome in 1633, (1779)
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Vassily Kandinsky, The Evening, (1903)
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Józef Chełmoński, Hunting (1882)
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Jan Kazimierz(1893)
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Jacek Malczewski, Motherland (1903)
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Józef Brandt, Bogurodzica (1909)
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Tadeusz Makowski, The Pipe Smokers (1930)
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Stanisław Wyspiański, Double portrait of Eliza Pareńska (1905)
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Lovis Corinth, A Forest. Flooding on Lake Starnberg (1896)
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Anna Bilińska, Breton Woman Standing on a Doorstep (1889)
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Aleksander Gierymski, Boy Carrying a Sheaf (1895)
Museum divisions
- Ethnographic Museum (at the Palace of Bishops)
- The Racławice Panorama Museum
- Four Domes Pavilion at Centennial Hall
See also
- National Museum of Poland
- National Museum, Kraków
- National Museum, Poznań
- National Museum, Warsaw
- List of registered museums in Poland
- Portrait of a Clergyman (Helmich van Thweenhuysen II)
Notes and references
- ^ a b c Iwona Gołaj, Grzegorz Wojturski (2006). "The National Museum in Wrocław. History". Muzeum Narodowe we Wrocławiu. Przewodnik (in Polish and English). Muzeum Narodowe we Wrocławiu. Archived from the original on September 22, 2014. Retrieved October 9, 2012.
- ^ Ewa Likowska (2010). "Wędrówka do Rosji". Odzyskiwanie zabytków (in Polish). Tygodnik PRZEGLĄD, 40/2001. Retrieved October 9, 2012.
- ^ Harris, Gareth (2020-06-23). "National museum in Stockholm to return stolen 16th-century painting to Poland". The Art Newspaper. Retrieved 2023-02-27.
- ^ "Permanent Exhibitions European Art of the 15th – 20th". Retrieved 2017-03-27.
- ^ "The National Museum in Wrocław". Visitors guide. Visit Wrocław. 2011. Retrieved October 10, 2012.
- Media related to National Museum in Wrocław at Wikimedia Commons