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National Museum of Ethnography 
The neo-renaissance building of the museum designed by E. Marconi.Established 1888 Location Warsaw Type ethnography Director Adam Czyżewski Website Methnomuseum.website.pl Państwowe Muzeum Etnograficzne w Warszawie is a museum in Warsaw, Poland. It was established in 1888.
The collection is made of objects, folk art and art from Poland, Europe, Africa, Australia, Oceania and Latin and South America: costumes, crafts, sculptures, painting. The museum has a permanent exhibition, a library (around 26 000 volumes[1]), a Photographic and Film Records Studio and a Central Repository for Museum's Collections; it produces temporary exhibitions, research projects and publications. The museum is managed by a director and it is organized in the departments of Polish and European ethnography, Non-European ethnography, adult education, educational, communication and marketing, publications, organizational, archival material and photographic and film records, accounting and finance, personnel, administrative and technical, inventory and conservation. The Museum publishes the magazine "Zeszyty Muzealne" from the 1960s to the beginning of the 1980s; in October 2009 it starts a new quarterly magazine called "Etnografia Nowa" ["The New Ethnography"][2]. In 2011 the museum receives a grants to renew the museum and create a Children museum[3].
The permanent exhibitions presented inside the museum are:
- The Flight. Asian Magical Weapons, curated by Jacek Szelegejd.
- Africa, curated by Jolanta Koziorowska.
- Australia and Oceania, curated by Robert Andrzej Dul.
- Polish Folk Art Gallery, curated by Jagoda Migdał.
- Folk Handicraft, curated by Małgorzata Jaszczołt.
- Polish Annual Rites, curated by Barbara Ogrodowska.
- The Ordinary – The Extraordinary. The Ethnographic Museum's Fascinating Collections. The Museum's 120th anniversary exhibition, curated Joanna Bartuszek, Anita Broda, Robert A. Dul, Rafał Gorczyca, Małgorzata Jaszczołt and Jolanta Koziorowska.
The Polish collection is composted of around 13500 exhibited in the permanent collection and over 1000 in the deposits[4]; the African collection is the richest collection of the museum with over 10 thousand objects mainly form Sub-Saharan Africa. The African collection is based on a donation by Wacław Korabiewicz which includes domestic and agricultural utensils, arms, costumes and clothings, jewelry, royal insignia, sculptures, masks and objects related to religious practices. In 1988 also Aleksandra and Cyprian Kosiński contributed to the museum African collection with sculptures, masks and royal costumes of the Congolese tribes Bakuba, Bakongo, Chokwe. According to the museum[5], one of the most important object of the African collection is a helmet masks made by the East African Makonde tribe (Tanzania, Mozambique) coming from Wacław Korabiewicz's collection.
Notes
- ^ Description of the library on the museum website
- ^ Description of the museum magazine "Etnografia Nowa" on the museum website http://ethnomuseum.website.pl/en/doc_277.html
- ^ Project title "Increasing the accessibility of cultural infrastructure by modernizing the building of the State Ethnographic Museum in Warsaw", 2011.
- ^ Description of The Polish collection on the museum website 2011 http://ethnomuseum.website.pl/en/doc_polandeurope.html
- ^ Description of the Non-European collection of the museum http://ethnomuseum.website.pl/en/doc_288.html.
External links
Categories:- Museums in Warsaw
- Museums established in 1888
- Ethnographic museums
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