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Tarnów - Museums
The Diocesan Museum in Tarnow - The Tarnow Diocesan Museum is the oldest of its kind in Poland, founded in 1888 by the priest Jozef Baba. At this time it was primarily located in the building of the Tarnow Seminary, until the period between WWI and WWII when the Town Hall was the seat of the museum. Currently, the Museum resides in three 16th century tenement houses near the Cathedral:
- the "Akademiola", named after the first school established in Tarnow, which was a branch of the Jagiellonian University,
- the Mikolajowski House, built in 1524 by Jan Mikolajowski, then serving as the house of the vice chancellor of the "Akademiola"
- the Mansjonariuszy House and the Scholasteria.
The houses are located west of the Cathedral creating a charming nook that carries the true essence of the Old Town.
The most important part of the Museum's collection is the exhibition of guild art containing Gothic sculpture and paintings from the Malopolska region. These artifacts are not only pleasing to the eye, but also important testimonials to the level and history of Polish Medieval culture. Another diocesan display includes church fabrics (vestments and covers etc) that are from as early as the Middle Ages to the 19th century. There is also a folk art department in the Museum luring visitors inside with impressive folk glass paintings collection. These paintings were donated to the Diocesan Museum of Tarnow in 1957 by Norbert Lippoczy, a widely-known Tarnow resident of Hungarian descent. Finally, the museum contains a collection of contemporary folk sculputure from the very lively city of Paszyn, near Nowy Sacz.
In 1988 the Diocesan Museum celebrated its 100th year of operation with a Jubilee, at which time the museum was also able to enrich its collection with new pieces of art from the beginning of the 20th century. They are the works of several Polish painters by the names of Jacek Malczewski, Vlastimil Hofman, Kazimierz Sichulski and Wojciech Weiss that were donated by a Tarnow collector, Olga Majewska, who also gave a collection of porcelain and clocks to the museum.
Ethnographic Museum - It is located in a 18 th century wayside inn that was renovated in the 1980's. Its most important feature is an exhibition illustrating the history and culture of the Gypsies in Poland, which is the only of its kind in Europe.
Regional Museum
Historical aracded houses at the Tarnow Market Square that hold collections of historical art, Polish and European painting, glass, and china.
Town Hall
The Renaissance Tarnow town hall that has collections of artifacts relating to Gen. J. Bem and the military, Polis (Sarmatian) portrait painting, Polish painting from the 19 th /20 th c., and glass and china from the 17 th/18 th c.
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