Staszic Palace

Staszic Palace Pałac Staszica (in Polish)
Staszic Palace, seat of the Polish Academy of Sciences
General information
Architectural style	Neoclassical
Town or city	Warsaw
Country	Poland
Construction started	1620
Completed	1946-50
Design and construction
Architect(s)	Antonio Corazzi
Historic Monument of Poland
Designated	1994-09-08
Part of	Warsaw – historic city center with the Royal Route and Wilanów
Reference no.	M.P. 1994 nr 50 poz. 423[1]

Staszic Palace (

In 1818 the building was purchased by

On 11 May 1830 the diplomat and polymath, Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz, unveiled Bertel Thorvaldsen's monument to Nicolaus Copernicus in front of the palace.^[2]

After the November 1830 Uprising against the occupying Russian Empire, the Society was banned by the Russian authorities; they had controlled Warsaw for most of the time since the final partition of Poland in 1795. For the following 26 years, the palace was used by the organisers of a lottery.

In 1857–62 the palace was the seat of the Academy of Medical science, the first institution of higher learning re-established in the

After

French Institute

, and the Archeological Museum of Warsaw.

The palace was damaged during the 1939 siege of Warsaw and nearly razed during the 1944 Warsaw Uprising. In 1946–50 it was rebuilt in its original neoclassical form by Piotr Biegański who introduced minor modifications to the building's original design.^[4] Today it is the seat of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

Notes

1. ^ Zarządzenie Prezydenta Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej z dnia 8 września 1994 r. w sprawie uznania za pomnik historii., M.P. z 1994 r. Nr 50, poz. 423
2. ISBN 0-7385-0716-4
   , pp. 13-14.
3. ISBN 83-223-2047-7
   .
4. ISBN 978-83-280-3725-0
   .

External links

Media related to Staszic Palace at Wikimedia Commons

• (in Polish) Gallery of photos and a history

52°14′16″N 21°01′06″E / 52.23778°N 21.01833°E / 52.23778; 21.01833