Muzeum Miejskie w Grudziądzu po odzyskaniu niepodległości

• Authors: Kurzyńska Małgorzata

Title variants

DE

Städtmuseum in Grudziądz/Graudenz in der Periode nach der wiedererlangten Unabhängigkeit

EN

Municipal Museum in Grudziądz in reborn Poland

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

After Poland regained independence in 1920, the activity of the German Antiquity Society (Altertums- Gesellschaft), which had managed the Museum and Library, was suspended. In 1921 it was liquidated. The Municipal Museum was reactivated in 1921 under the management of Society of People’s Reading Rooms (Towarzystwo Czytelni Ludowych, hereinafter as T.C.L.). The T.C.L. managed museum collections through its museum section. It is not only the beautiful building that was a post-German legacy; there were also nearly 9,000 museum items, including 4,000 numismatic items and 5,000 archaeological relics as well as a small group of historical, ethnographic, natural and artistic monuments. In the interwar period, Rev. Dr. Władysław Łęga was the Museum’s honorary curator from 1922 to 1939. In 1922, Łęga established the Polish Sightseeing Society Circle [Koło Polskiego Towarzystwa Krajoznawczego, hereinafter as P.T.K.], in which he held the position of the president. The museum section of the P.T.K. was entrusted with the task of obtaining collections for the Museum. Thanks to Łęga’s actions, the existing collections were set in order, whereas as many as 461 new exhibits were acquired by purchases and gifts. The Municipal Museum was a public museum and operated in accordance with the Act of March 28th, 1933 on the care of museums. The building of the Municipal Museum in Grudziądz housed several institutions: the Secretariat of the Pomeranian T.C.L. in the basement, two exhibitions halls and the room of the secretary of the P.T.K. on the ground floor; T.C.L. Library, the Municipal Library and two rooms for temporary exhibitions (made available by the Municipal Board) on the first floor; the Wacław Szczeblewski Higher School of Fine Arts (later renamed to the Piórczyński Higher School of Fine Arts) on the second floor. All these institutions in the Museum were maintained by the city. In 1925, in recognition of his merits and academic qualifications, Łęga was appointed a correspondent member of the Conservation Committee at the Conservation Office in Poznań in 1925. This function also obliged him to take actions to protect movable and immovable monuments in the city and adjacent counties.

• Publisher: Muzeum w Grudziądzu
• Journal: Rocznik Grudziądzki
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 27
• Pages: 165-184

Dates

published

2019

Contributors

author

Kurzyńska Małgorzata

• Muzeum w Grudziądzu