National Museum, Poznań

National Museum in Poznań
Established	1857
Location	9 Karol Marcinkowski Avenues Poznań, Poland
Type	National museum
Director	Wojciech Suchocki
Website	www.mnp.art.pl

The National Museum, Poznań (Polish: Muzeum Narodowe w Poznaniu), 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 (Italian, Spanish, Dutch and German). The museum is also home to numismatic collections and a gallery of applied arts.

History

The National Museum in Poznań was established in 1857, as the "Museum of Polish and Slavic Antiquities".^[1] During World War II the building was damaged, the collection looted by German soldiers, while numerous museum exhibits, including the natural and ethnographic collections, were destroyed.^[1] After the war the Polish Government retrieved many of the works seized by the Germans.

Collections

Gallery of Foreign Painting

The Main Building features one of the largest galleries of foreign painting in Poland, predominantly originating from the collection possessed by the Counts Raczyńskis:

The Siege of Asola, Tintoretto, 1544-1545.

Beach in Pourville, Claude Monet, 1882.

• Sofonisba Anguissola, The Chess Game,
• Angelo Bronzino, Portrait of Cosimo I dei Medici in armour,
• Alonso Sánchez Coello, The Royal Feast,
• Jan van Kessel, el Mozo, Dwarfs with a dog,
• Quentin Massys, Madonna and Child with the Lamb,
• Juan Carreño de Miranda, The Assumption,
• Claude Monet, Beach in Pourville, recovered on 12 January 2010.^[2]
• Johann Friedrich Overbeck, The Marriage,
• Francesco Raibolini, Madonna and Child with St. Francis,
• Jacob Ruysdael, Fishing,
• Frans Snyders, Wild Boar Hunt,
• Bernardo Strozzi, The Abduction of Europa,
• Jacopo Tintoretto, The Siege of Asola,
• Diego Velázquez (his studio?), Blind Woman,
• Francisco de Zurbarán, The Virgin of the Rosary venerated by Carthusians.

See also

• National Museum, Kraków
• National Museum, Warsaw

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "History". mnp.art.pl. http://www.mnp.art.pl/historia/index_a.html. Retrieved 2010-03-06. 
2. ^ Stolen Monet recovered in Poland, Sofia Echo, 15 January 2010, http://www.sofiaecho.com/2010/01/15/843015_stolen-monet-recovered-in-poland .

External links

• Official website
• National Museum in Poznań at culture.pl

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