Автор: [автор не указан] Год: 1978 Издание:Аркады Страниц: 190 ISBN: [не указан] The decision to devote a separate volume to one of the departments of the National Museum is justified by the long history and great cultural, artistic, and patriotic importance of the Czartoryski collection, which formed an independent institution until 1950. This oldest Polish museum was founded at Putawy in 1801 and refounded in Cracow in 1876, three years earlier than the National Museum. It is for this reason that the second volume appears before the first one. Its publication nearly coincides with the hundredth anniversary of the foundation of the Czartoryski Museum in Cracow. The publication of the first volume of the album will celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the foundation of the National Museum. The catalogue of selected objects is preceded by an introduction which recalls to the reader the history of the Czartoryski collection, intimately connected with the stormy history of post-partition Poland. The collection was intended to form a kind of national...
