National Museum, Warsaw

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The National Museum, Warsaw, in Poland, was established on May 20, 1862, as the "Museum of Fine Arts, Warsaw", and in 1916 renamed "National Museum, Warsaw" (with the inclusion of collections from museums and cultural institutions such as the Society of Care for Relics of the Past, the Museum of Antiquity at Warsaw University, the Museum of the Society for Encouragement of the Fine Arts, and the Museum of Industry and Agriculture).

Sandro Botticelli, The Virgin and Child, St. John and Angels
Sandro Botticelli, The Virgin and Child, St. John and Angels

The collection, currently housed in Aleje Jerozolimskie, was developed between 1927 and 1938 (earlier the museum had been located at ulica Podwale 15). In 1932 an exhibition of decorative art was opened in the two earlier erected wings of the building. In 1935, the museum director was Stanisław Lorentz. A new building was inaugurated June 18, 1938.

During World War II the building was damaged and the collection looted by German soldiers. After the war the Polish Government, under the supervision of Prof Lorentz, retrieved works seized by the Germans. At present, the collection of the National Museum in Warsaw includes over 780,000 items displayed in many permanent galleries, including the Professor Kazimierz Michałowski Faras Gallery and galleries given over to Ancient Art, Medieval Art, Foreign Painting, Polish Painting, European Goldsmithing, Oriental Art, Twentieth Century Polish Art, Polish Decorative Art and European Decorative Art, as well as many temporary exhibitions.

[edit] Gallery of Western Europe Painting

Jacob Jordaens, The Holy Family with St. John, His Parents and Angels
Jacob Jordaens, The Holy Family with St. John, His Parents and Angels
Jan Matejko, Battle of Grunwald
Jan Matejko, Battle of Grunwald

[edit] Gallery of Polish Painting

[edit] Other

[edit] Gallery

Józef Chełmoński, Indian summer

Józef Chełmoński, Storks

Aleksander Gierymski, In the Gazebo

Jacek Malczewski, Death

Jacek Malczewski, Polish Hamlet

Henryk Siemiradzki, Dirce

Stanisław Wyspiański, Chochoły

Stanisław Wyspiański, Motherhood

Stanisław Wyspiański, Self-portrait

Silver regalia of King Augustus III of Poland and Queen Maria Josepha

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