Open AccessWAWEL AND WARSAW – THE BIGGEST POSTWAR REPOSITORIES FOR RELOCATED CULTURAL GOODS IN POLAND. CONTRIBUTION TO BROADER ELABORATION
Author(s) -
Lidia Małgorzata Kamińska
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
muzealnictwo
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.101
H-Index - 1
eISSN - 2391-4815
pISSN - 0464-1086
DOI - 10.5604/01.3001.0010.3026
Subject(s) - requisition , opposition (politics) , elaboration , political science , state (computer science) , incentive , history , economy , law , art , archaeology , humanities , market economy , economics , computer science , algorithm , politics
The article continues the text Post-war repositoriesfor relocated cultural goods in Poland, published in2016 in the 57th issue of “Museology”. It is based on unpublishedarchival sources, as a result of basic research. It refersto the first two main repositories, i.e. at the Royal CastleState Art Collections at Wawel Castle and in the NationalMuseum in Warsaw including its branches founded in 1945in Wilanów, Nieborów and Łowicz. This is the first and preliminarydescription of the theme. It covers the results of theso-called requisition campaign, enumerates the transportsand the directions from where they came, and the numberof chests with cultural goods transported to Wawel and tothe National Museum in Warsaw. It examines the complexityof problems then faced by museum professionals whosalvaged cultural goods in opposition to the activities of thestate administration, and it describes their consequences.It describes the registration activities in repositories. Theissues treated still require further elaboration. The authordoes not tackle the legal aspects of moving cultural goods,such as the aspect of their ownership. The article may serveas an incentive to other researchers to investigate the problemin greater depth