The National Museum in Warsaw, founded in 1862 as the Museum of Fine Arts, is one of the oldest art museums in Poland. After Poland regained independence in 1918, the National Museum found an important place in the plans of the new state and its capital – Warsaw. The modernist building, the seat of the museum, was erected in the years 1927-1938. Today, the collections of the National Museum in Warsaw number around 830 thousand works of Polish and world art, from antiquity to the present day, and include painting, sculpture, drawings and engravings, photographs, coins, as well as objects of applied art and design. The museum has four branches: the Poster Museum in Wilanów, the Xawery Dunikowski Sculpture Museum in Królikarnia, the Interior Museum in Otwock Wielki, and the Museum in Nieborów and Arkadia.
The arrangement of the permanent galleries aims to link many previous narratives into one universal panorama of art and culture – from the archaeological study of antiquity and classical antiquity through the Middle Ages to the new and most recent times. The aim of the new arrangement of the galleries is to show the common heritage of European civilization, while preserving the differences between eras and regions. The main intention was to create a coherent story about Polish, European and world art.
Permanent galleries:
- Faras Gallery;
- Gallery of Medieval Art;
- Gallery of Ancient Art;
- Gallery of 19th Century Art;
- Gallery of Polish Design.
In preparation: Ancient Art Gallery
CONTACT
National Museum in Warsaw
Al. Jerozolimskie 3, 00-495 Warsaw
Phone +48 22 621 10 31
e-mail: information@mnw.art.pl
www.mnw.art.pl
