Open AccessTHE ENGLISH VOYAGE OF MICHAŁ JERZY WANDALIN MNISZECH AND PLAN TO FOUND THE POLISH MUSEUM
Author(s) -
Michał Mencfel
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
muzealnictwo
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.101
H-Index - 1
eISSN - 2391-4815
pISSN - 0464-1086
DOI - 10.5604/01.3001.0015.2414
Subject(s) - lithuanian , commonwealth , promotion (chess) , plan (archaeology) , argumentation theory , state (computer science) , political science , institution , history , classics , law , archaeology , philosophy , politics , computer science , linguistics , epistemology , algorithm
It is the plan to found the Polish Museumdeclared in 1775 by Michał Jerzy Wandalin Mniszech(1748–1806) that is tackled in the paper. Argumentation ispresented that the major impulse for the idea to establisha museum in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was feltby Mniszech following his visit to the British Museum in1766. It is from the inspiration by that Museum that theoverall structural scheme of the Polish Museum, adjustedto the Polish potential and conditions was conceived. Justlike the latter, the Polish Museum was to be funded withpublic financing and opened to the general public, while itsmain raison d’être, similarly as that of the London museum,was benefit understood as supporting and popularizingknowledge, since Mniszech’s museum first of all was to be aneducational institution targeted mainly at young people andcalculated to yield future advantages. Next to the reformedgeneral public system and the academy of sciences, it wasto become an essential element of the coherent systemof science and education which M.J. Mniszech considereda condition and basis of the wealth and success of the stateand nation. The ambitious and unaccomplished plan tofound the Polish Museum formed part of the committedprogramme of the revival and civilizational promotion ofthe state suffering at the time the process of degradation.