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BIALYSTOK
H i s t o r y -— collecting manuscripts and printed documerits
irom the 18th to the 20th centuries, relating to the history
of the town and of the voivodship, especially those con-
nected with the patronage oi hetman Jan Klemens Branicki.
The exhibition shows the history of the town from the 16th
century to the present day — its establishment, its flourish-
ing in the 18th century, the development of its textile indus-
try, the more important political and economic events, the
period of the Nazi occupation, the extermination of the
Jewish population, and the face of the city as it is today.
Special attention has been devoted to Ludwik Zamenhof,
creator of Esperanto, a native of Biaiystok. Alongside of
historical relics from the city and specimens of Polish crafts-
manship, a model of the Branicki palace and park in Bialy-
stok is exhibited as they looked in the 18th century;
Art — collecting Polish painting up to the present day
(including works of the Biaiystok artist Zygmunt Bujanowski),
sculpture — in particular the works of Alfons Karny, an
artist connected with Biaiystok, decorative art and numis-
matics. The exhibition comprises some scores of paintings
by outstanding Polish artists of the 18th—20th centuries,
most of them constituting a permanent loan from the Na-
tional Museum in Warsaw; it includes works by F. Smugle-
wicz, A. Kokular, P. Michalowski, J. Matejko ("Sigismund
Augustus and Barbara"), W. Gerson, A. Kotsis, J. Malczew-
ski, A. Gierymski, J. Chelmonski, J. Pankiewicz, W. Pod-
kowinski, J. Falat, S. Lentz and others. Of particular value
is a group of some forty 16th-century frescoes, representing
whole figures or busts of saints salvaged from a Uniate
church at Suprasl near Bialystok which was destroyed dur-
ing World War II;
Ethnography — presents exhibits picturing the tradi-
tional occupations of the Bialystok countryside: agriculture
(farming implements and those for farm home production,
such as wooden ploughs and harrows, wooden and straw
containers for keeping grain), animal breeding, pottery
(potter's bench with wheel and a model of potter's kiln,
hand-moulded earthenware, a collection of black pottery
called situak), and fishing (a collection of fishing spears and
nets, a fishing boat). A large collection of double warp folk
rugs, called Bialystok rugs — of the 19th century, and mo-
dern ones.
MUSEUM OF THE REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT. a
Branch of the District Museum, 6 Kilinskiego Street, tel.
43-81, 32-59. Open daily except Mondays and days following
holidays from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Established in 1962, it is
lodged in a palace from the middle of the 18th century.
The exhibition presents the history of the revolutionary
movement in Bialystok from the 1870's until the unification
of the Polish working-class movement in 1948. Shown is
the history of revolutionary movements and struggles for
national liberation, including the period of the Nazi occupa-
tion, up to the establishment and consolidation of people's
rule, in the Voivodship of Bialystok. The exhibits include,
among other things, banners, records of investigation and
court trials, objects connected with executions, arms, objects
from Nazi concentration camps, and mementoes.
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H i s t o r y -— collecting manuscripts and printed documerits
irom the 18th to the 20th centuries, relating to the history
of the town and of the voivodship, especially those con-
nected with the patronage oi hetman Jan Klemens Branicki.
The exhibition shows the history of the town from the 16th
century to the present day — its establishment, its flourish-
ing in the 18th century, the development of its textile indus-
try, the more important political and economic events, the
period of the Nazi occupation, the extermination of the
Jewish population, and the face of the city as it is today.
Special attention has been devoted to Ludwik Zamenhof,
creator of Esperanto, a native of Biaiystok. Alongside of
historical relics from the city and specimens of Polish crafts-
manship, a model of the Branicki palace and park in Bialy-
stok is exhibited as they looked in the 18th century;
Art — collecting Polish painting up to the present day
(including works of the Biaiystok artist Zygmunt Bujanowski),
sculpture — in particular the works of Alfons Karny, an
artist connected with Biaiystok, decorative art and numis-
matics. The exhibition comprises some scores of paintings
by outstanding Polish artists of the 18th—20th centuries,
most of them constituting a permanent loan from the Na-
tional Museum in Warsaw; it includes works by F. Smugle-
wicz, A. Kokular, P. Michalowski, J. Matejko ("Sigismund
Augustus and Barbara"), W. Gerson, A. Kotsis, J. Malczew-
ski, A. Gierymski, J. Chelmonski, J. Pankiewicz, W. Pod-
kowinski, J. Falat, S. Lentz and others. Of particular value
is a group of some forty 16th-century frescoes, representing
whole figures or busts of saints salvaged from a Uniate
church at Suprasl near Bialystok which was destroyed dur-
ing World War II;
Ethnography — presents exhibits picturing the tradi-
tional occupations of the Bialystok countryside: agriculture
(farming implements and those for farm home production,
such as wooden ploughs and harrows, wooden and straw
containers for keeping grain), animal breeding, pottery
(potter's bench with wheel and a model of potter's kiln,
hand-moulded earthenware, a collection of black pottery
called situak), and fishing (a collection of fishing spears and
nets, a fishing boat). A large collection of double warp folk
rugs, called Bialystok rugs — of the 19th century, and mo-
dern ones.
MUSEUM OF THE REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT. a
Branch of the District Museum, 6 Kilinskiego Street, tel.
43-81, 32-59. Open daily except Mondays and days following
holidays from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Established in 1962, it is
lodged in a palace from the middle of the 18th century.
The exhibition presents the history of the revolutionary
movement in Bialystok from the 1870's until the unification
of the Polish working-class movement in 1948. Shown is
the history of revolutionary movements and struggles for
national liberation, including the period of the Nazi occupa-
tion, up to the establishment and consolidation of people's
rule, in the Voivodship of Bialystok. The exhibits include,
among other things, banners, records of investigation and
court trials, objects connected with executions, arms, objects
from Nazi concentration camps, and mementoes.
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