Lorentz, Stanisław: Guide to museums and collections in Poland (Warsaw, 1974)

TARNOW

from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. The Library is open from 9 a.m.
to3p.m
The Municipal Museum in Tamow was established in 1927; it com-
prised the town archives irom the 15th—19th centuries, memoriais
ol the Tarnow guilds irom the 17th—19th centuries, and a collection
oi folk art. From 1915, the Museum has been lodged in the Old
Town Hall, a Gothic building from the 15th century, rebuilt in the
middle oi the 16th century. The Museum aiso occupies a Renaissance
house buiit in 1568, and a part oi the former Bernardine Church
from the 15th century, rebuilt in the middle oi the 19th oentury,
at 21 Kniewskiego Street. Transferred to the Museum have been
coiiectiions previously belonging to various country manors in the
region amd tatken over by virtue of the Land Reform — imciuding
the iarge collection from the former Sanguszko paiace at Gumniska.
The possessions of the Museum in Tarnow are divided into
the following sections:
Art and Historical — with a valuable collection of
Polish portraits from the 17th—18th centuries: paintings by
Polish artists and by foreign artists working in Poland
(J. P. Norblin, G. Grassi, A. Oriowski, Z. Vogel, J. Suchodol-
ski, J. Brandt, J. Kossak, J. Cheimonski, and others), and
paintings of the Italian, Dutch, German and French schools
from the 17th—19th centuries. The graphic art coiiection
contains prints, mostly foreign —- French, German, English,
Italian, from the 16th—19th centuries. A group of 18th-cen-
tury Italian drawings represehting the works of A. Canaletto,
G. Guardi, G. Diziani and others, and a group of Polish and
foreign architectural drawings of the 18th and 19th centuries.
The artistic craftsmanship exhibits include a rich collection
of table glassware from the 17th—19th centuries; alongside
of German and Bohemian specimens, it contains for the most
part the products of Polish glassworks at Lubaczow, Naliboki
and Urzecz. The collection of ceramics comprises specimens
of Far Eastern china and specimens from the leading Western
European manufactories from the 16th—19th centuries. Polish
ceramics are chiefly represented by products of the Korzec,
Baranowka and Horodnica manufactories from the 18th—19th
centuries. Metal objects include a tin jug commissioned by
the town councillors of Tarnow in Gdansk in 1639, clocks and
bronze candelabra. Military objects from the 15th—19th
centuries, a collection of European and Oriental pistols and
powder-flasks, two saddle-and-harness sets of the 17th and
18th centuries with rich embroidery in gold and silver,
harnesses adorned with impressed and engraved brass
plates. Specimens of old weaving, including a tapestry with
figurative representation from the 17th/18th centuries. The
craftsmanship collection comprises Polish and foreign furni-
ture of the 17th—l'9th centuries, including so-called Gdansk
wardrobes — carved and with inlaid works, and French
Baroque commodes and tables with decorative brass fittings;
Ethnographic — contains chiefly the art of the Dq-
browskie Powisle region in the fields of painting, sculpture,
costumes and furniture.
DIOCESAN MUSEUM, 5 Katedralny Square. Open daily,
except days following holidays, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., Sun-
days and holidays from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Group excursions;
and research workers are admitted at other times, too, upon
application. Non-exhibited possessions are accessible for re-
search purposes.

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