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DOI Artikel:Załęski, Krzysztof: Stanisław Lorentz as the creator of the "Modern" National Museum
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officials, faculties, artists’, educational and social organisations. Additionally, it
developed programs, topics and methods for lectures connected with tours
geared to the needs and abilities of individual groups of visitors, co-ordinating
information and guidance for appreciation of the Museum’s collections and
furnishings. Studies were madę of Museum attendance and appropriate
promotional campaigns were developed. The department had both a screening
room and a reading room at its disposal. A social and educational service was
organised, and excursions were planned and conducted. Co-operative
programs with schools increased attendance at the Museum significantly and
created a basis for research into the problems of educational work in Warsaw
at large. The Museum’s scholarly activity yielded a number of publications:
Rocznik Muzeum Narodowego, conceived as a permanent journal, exhibition
catalogues, guides, and catalogues of the collections.
5. Exhibition
of Jan Matejko drawings
at the National Museum
in Warsaw in 1938.
Sitting:
prof. Zygmunt Batowski
on the left and director
Stanisław Lorentz
on the right.
Standing are ort history
students: Maria
todyńska (Kosińska),
Stefan Kozakiewicz,
Maria Tyszewiczowa,
Włodzimierz Cywiński,
Maria Zenowicz
(Brandysowa),
Zygmunt Miechowski,
Zbigniew Mroczek
(from left to right)
From its very beginning the Museum suffered from a lack of space, sińce it
had rented part of its building in a long term lease to the Museum of the Army.
Tack of space prevented expansion of the painting conservation workshop, the
department of decorative art, as well as the photographic laboratory (headed
by Zofia Tomaszewska from 1935). Ali three departments were modernised
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developed programs, topics and methods for lectures connected with tours
geared to the needs and abilities of individual groups of visitors, co-ordinating
information and guidance for appreciation of the Museum’s collections and
furnishings. Studies were madę of Museum attendance and appropriate
promotional campaigns were developed. The department had both a screening
room and a reading room at its disposal. A social and educational service was
organised, and excursions were planned and conducted. Co-operative
programs with schools increased attendance at the Museum significantly and
created a basis for research into the problems of educational work in Warsaw
at large. The Museum’s scholarly activity yielded a number of publications:
Rocznik Muzeum Narodowego, conceived as a permanent journal, exhibition
catalogues, guides, and catalogues of the collections.
5. Exhibition
of Jan Matejko drawings
at the National Museum
in Warsaw in 1938.
Sitting:
prof. Zygmunt Batowski
on the left and director
Stanisław Lorentz
on the right.
Standing are ort history
students: Maria
todyńska (Kosińska),
Stefan Kozakiewicz,
Maria Tyszewiczowa,
Włodzimierz Cywiński,
Maria Zenowicz
(Brandysowa),
Zygmunt Miechowski,
Zbigniew Mroczek
(from left to right)
From its very beginning the Museum suffered from a lack of space, sińce it
had rented part of its building in a long term lease to the Museum of the Army.
Tack of space prevented expansion of the painting conservation workshop, the
department of decorative art, as well as the photographic laboratory (headed
by Zofia Tomaszewska from 1935). Ali three departments were modernised
30