Łowicz - special place for Polish folk culture (6)

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Published Aug 8, 2019

The beginnings of museum collections in Łowicz date back to the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries and are associated with the figure of Władysław Tarczyński (1845 - 1918), collector and social worker, who in 1905 made available to the public under the name "Collections of Antiquities".

In 1907 Władysław Tarczyński's collection was transformed into the "Museum of Antiquities and Historical Souvenirs", receiving its own statute, approved by the administrative authorities. At the same time, the exhibition was moved from a private apartment to rooms provided for this purpose by the Board of Fire Guard Volunteer Fire, which W. Tarczyński was an active activist. The museum developed quickly and by the outbreak of the First World War it had over 3,200 exhibits along with a library. W. Tarczyński also included objects from the field of ethnography in the historical-artistic collection.

The Museum of Antiquity, destroyed several times by German troops occupying Łowicz, lost some of its valuable collections. Transferred to the city and created again after regaining independence, it began its activity in 1927, as the Municipal Museum. Władysława Tarczyński. Thanks to the efforts of Emil Balcer, another carer of the collections, the Museum has gained recognition of cultural and scientific environments, becoming a tourist attraction. In this organizational shape, it functioned until the outbreak of World War II.

The activity of the Municipal Museum was supplemented by the Ethnographic Museum of the Polish National History Society, which was established in 1910, based on the collection of the outstanding social activist Aniela Chmielińska (1868-1936).

The collections of the Municipal Museum and the Ethnographic Museum, originally located in a building purchased for museum purposes at Old Market Square 16, were made available to the public until 1939. The period of World War II caused further losses in museum collections.

In 1948, the collections of both museums were taken over by the National Museum in Warsaw (creating its branch until 1995). The new headquarters of the museum was a post-war building, rebuilt from war damage.

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