Ethnographic Museum (Warszawskie Muzeum Etnograficzne) description and photos - Poland: Warsaw (Topic)

Ethnographic Museum (Warszawskie Muzeum Etnograficzne) description and photos - Poland: Warsaw. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photographs and a map showing the nearest significant objects. The title in English is Warszawskie Muzeum Etnograficzne.

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The Ethnographic Museum in Warsaw is one of the oldest museums of its kind in Poland, founded in 1888. The Ethnographic Museum was founded on the initiative of the lawyer Kaminsky and ethnographer John Karlovich. Initially, the museum was located at the zoo, and later was moved to the Museum of Industry and Agriculture. Many exhibits were donated to the museum from private collections of ethnographers: Leopold Janikowski, John Kubarego, Bronislav Pilsudski and many other specialists. In particular, a unique collection of objects from Indochina, Japan and the Middle East, donated by the collector Ignatiy Belakovich, deserves special attention.

In 1921, an expert and connoisseur of European ethnography Yevgeny Frankovsky was appointed head of the museum, who made an invaluable contribution to the development museum. From this period, the museum began to take an active part in European exhibitions and research. The collection increased from 8,954 pieces in 1922 to 30,000 in 1939. The permanent exhibition was divided into three main sections: Polish ethnography, the collection of Slavic ethnography, and the collection of other countries. In the pre-war years, the museum's library was one of the richest in the country, with 26,000 volumes of specialized literature in its collection. Most of the collection was destroyed during a military bombing.

In 1946, work began to restore the museum, and three years later the first exhibition opened in an 18th century palace, which became a temporary shelter for the museum. In December 1973, the inauguration of the museum took place in a new building of the 19th century.

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