The Most Valuable Collections of Religious Art of the Municipal Museum in Żywiec – History, Restoration and Exhibition of Monuments The Municipal Museum in Żywiec has an interesting collection of religious art of the Żywiec region (fourteenth–nineteenth century). The first exhibits, along with other witnesses of the past, were obtained by the director – Tadeusz Charlewski and schoolgirls of the State Teachers Women’s College in Żywiec in the course of extracurricular and field activities. In 1933, the school building was also able to organize an exhibition, which initiated the professional collection of the Museum, acquired in 1936 by Michał Jeziorski – the first curator of the Museum of Żywiec. The next important date in the history of the collection of religious art is the year 1938, when the Museum founded a separate exhibition hall, which presented works of religious art, including medieval objects from the Church of Saint Cross in Żywiec (fifteenth and sixteenth century). Currently, the collection of religious art in the collections of the City Museum in Żywiec is the largest part of the Museum’s historical, artistic and deposit collection. Since 2012 the Old Castle in Żywiec, the seat of the Museum, presents the largest in its history permanent exhibition entitled “Religious Art of the Żywiec Region”.
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