The heart of the Ethnographic Museum in Krakow is its collections - a unique, valuable and very diverse collection. A collection of artefacts, documents and works of art, in which each exhibit has its own history, connected to the history of a given person. We present these testimonies of the past and these stories to those living today, while caring for them with great care, preserving them and duly storing them for future generations.
The Museum owns a collection of over 300,000 archival items: manuscripts, drawings, photographs, slides, as well as many valuable studies by the most eminent Polish ethnographers: Józef Lompa, Oskar Kolberg, Seweryn Udziela, Kazimierz Moszyński, Tadeusz Seweryn; sets of old glass plates, notes, interviews, memoirs. The collection is supplemented by a specialist library of around 30,000 volumes.
The collection of the Ethnographic Museum in Kraków is the largest and oldest ethnographic collection in Poland. It is an intriguing mix of everyday objects, working tools, toys, works of art, objects of worship and magic, photographs, manuscripts, drawings, and sounds. One can recognize in their testimonies of life, evidence of ingenuity and craftsmanship, a wealth of materials: wood, metals, paper, plastic, textiles, minerals, clay, parts of plants, and animals. In various ways, the collection allows you to find out what the world is made of and how man tries to cope with it. The core of the collection consists of objects from pre-war and present-day Poland. No less important and valuable are collections from other countries and other parts of the world (including the world's oldest Siberian collection, and collections from Asia, America, Oceania, and Africa).
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