National Museum of Poland
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"National Museum of Poland
" is the common name for several of the country's largest and most notable museum
s. Poland's National Museum comprises several independent branches, each operating a number of smaller museums. Poland's national museums include:
There is also a Polish National Museum
in Rapperswil
, Switzerland
.
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
" is the common name for several of the country's largest and most notable museum
Museum
A museum is an institution that cares for a collection of artifacts and other objects of scientific, artistic, cultural, or historical importance and makes them available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or temporary. Most large museums are located in major cities...
s. Poland's National Museum comprises several independent branches, each operating a number of smaller museums. Poland's national museums include:
- National Museum, Warsaw
- WilanówWilanówWilanów is a district of the city of Warsaw, Poland. It is home to historic Wilanów Palace, the "Polish Versailles," and second home to various Polish kings.-History:...
Poster MuseumPoster MuseumMuzeum Plakatu w Wilanowie is a museum in Warsaw, Poland. It was established in 1968.-Bibliography:* Plakaty w zbiorach Muzeum Plakatu w Wilanowie ed. Maria Kurpik, Agata Szydłowska, Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie, Warszawa 2008, pp. 293. ISBN 978-83-7100-865-8* Maria Kurpik: Chopin - polski plakat,... - KrólikarniaKrólikarniaKrólikarnia is a historical palace in Warsaw, Poland in classic style, as well as a neighborhood in Mokotów district of Warsaw. A museum of Polish sculptor and artist Xawery Dunikowski is located in the palace since 1965.-History:...
Museum of Sculpture of Xawery DunikowskiXawery DunikowskiXawery Dunikowski was a Polish sculptor and artist, notable for surviving Auschwitz concentration camp, and best known for his Neo-Romantic sculptures and Auschwitz-inspired art.- Biography :... - NieborówNieborówNieborów is a village in Łowicz County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. It is the seat of the gmina called Gmina Nieborów. It lies approximately east of Łowicz and north-east of the regional capital Łódź....
and Arkadia Museums - Otwock Museum of Design
- Łowicz Regional Museum
- Museum of Jerzy Dunin-Borkowski in KrośniewiceKrosniewiceKrośniewice is a town in Kutno County, Łódź Voivodeship, Poland, with 4,753 inhabitants .The European routes E30 and E75 used to intersect in the town until a bypass was built around the town in 2010. The main railway between Warsaw and Poznań passes through it...
- Łazienki Museum of Ignacy Jan PaderewskiIgnacy Jan PaderewskiIgnacy Jan Paderewski GBE was a Polish pianist, composer, diplomat, politician, and the second Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland.-Biography:...
and the Polish Emigration to America
- Wilanów
- National Museum, GdańskNational Museum, GdańskNational Museum in Gdańsk , established in 1972 , is one of the main branches of Poland's National Museum system....
- Gdańsk-Oliwa Etnographical Museum
- Gdańsk-Oliwa Museum of Modern Art
- Będomino Museum of the National Anthem
- National Museum, KrakówNational Museum, KrakówThe National Museum in Kraków , established in 1879, is the main branch of Poland's National Museum, which has many permanent collections around the country.-History:...
- CzartoryskiCzartoryskiCzartoryski is the surname of a Polish-Ukrainian-Lithuanian magnate family also known as the Familia. They used the Czartoryski Coat of arms and were the leading noble family of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 18th century.-History:The Czartoryski is a family of a Grand Ducal...
Foundation and Czartoryski MuseumCzartoryski MuseumThe Czartoryski Museum and Library is a museum located in Kraków, Poland, founded in Puławy in 1796 by Princess Izabela Czartoryska. The Puławy collections were partly destroyed after the November uprising of 1830–1831 and the subsequent confiscation of the Czartoryskis' property by the Russians... - SukienniceSukienniceThe Renaissance Sukiennice in Kraków, Poland, is one of the city's most recognizable icons. It is the central feature of the Main Market Square in the Kraków Old Town . It was once a major centre of international trade. Traveling merchants met there to discuss business and to barter...
- Jan MatejkoJan MatejkoJan Matejko was a Polish painter known for paintings of notable historical Polish political and military events. His most famous works include oil on canvas paintings like Battle of Grunwald, paintings of numerous other battles and court scenes, and a gallery of Polish kings...
Manor - Stanisław Wyspiański Museum
- Józef MehofferJózef MehofferJózef Mehoffer was a Polish painter and decorative artist, one of the leading artists of the Young Poland movement and one of the most revered Polish artists of his time.-Life:...
House - Szołayski Family house
- Emeryk Hutten-Czapski Museum
- MangghaMangghaManggha is a division of Poland's main branch of National Museum in Kraków.-History:...
- Centre of Japanese Art and Technology - Villa AtmaVilla AtmaThe Villa Atma in Zakopane, Poland, is a chalet housing the Karol Szymanowski Museum, a department of the National Museum in Cracow. It was built about 1890 in 'Zakopane style' for Józef Kasprusie-Stoch to designs by the architect Stanisław Witkiewicz...
, ZakopaneZakopaneZakopane , is a town in southern Poland. It lies in the southern part of the Podhale region at the foot of the Tatra Mountains. From 1975 to 1998 it was in of Nowy Sącz Province, but since 1999 it has been in Lesser Poland Province. It had a population of about 28,000 as of 2004. Zakopane is a...
Karol SzymanowskiKarol SzymanowskiKarol Maciej Szymanowski was a Polish composer and pianist.-Life:Szymanowski was born into a wealthy land-owning Polish gentry family in Tymoszówka, then in the Russian Empire, now in Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine. He studied music privately with his father before going to Gustav Neuhaus'...
Museum
- Czartoryski
- National Museum, PoznańNational Museum, PoznańThe National Museum, Poznań , Poland, is a national institution of culture and one of the largest museums in Poland. It comprise a rich collection of Polish painting since the 16th century and a collection of foreign painting...
- National Museum, SzczecinNational Museum, SzczecinNational Museum, Szczecin – a museum in Szczecin, Poland, established on 1 August 1945. The main part of an exhibition is placed in Landed Gentry House , Staromłyńska 27 Street...
- The Museum of the History of the City of Szczecin
- The Maritime Museum
- The Gallery of Contemporary Art
- National Museum, Wrocław
- Ethnographical Museum
- The Racławice Panorama Museum
- LubiążLubiazLubiąż is a village on the east bank of the Odra River, in the administrative district of Gmina Wołów, within Wołów County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. It lies approximately south-west of Wołów, and west of the regional capital Wrocław. The village has a population of...
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There is also a Polish National Museum
Polish Museum, Rapperswil
The Polish Museum, Rapperswil, was founded in Rapperswil, Switzerland, on October 23, 1870, by Polish Count Władysław Broel-Plater, at the urging of Agaton Giller, as "a refuge for [Poland's] historic memorabilia dishonored and plundered in the [occupied Polish] homeland" and for the promotion of...
in Rapperswil
Rapperswil
Rapperswil-Jona is a municipality in the Wahlkreis of See-Gaster in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland.Besides Rapperswil and Jona, which were separate municipalities until 2006, the municipality includes Bollingen, Busskirch, Curtiberg, Kempraten-Lenggis, Wagen, and Wurmsbach.-Today:On...
, Switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
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