MUSEUM OF PODKARPACIE IN KROSNO
ul. Piłsudskiego16
38-400 Krosno
tel.: +48 13 432 13 76
fax: +48 13 432 34 01
www.muzeum.krosno.pl
e-mail: promocja1@muzeum.krosno.pl, poczta@muzeum.krosno.pl
The Museum can be visited individually or with a
guide (English and French language guides available). Visiting
all exhibitions takes 1 to 2 hours. Also, available are guides
to historic places around town outside the museum.
Museum is open:
November – April:
Weekdays: 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Weekends: 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
May – October
Weekdays: 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Weekends: 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Tickets:
Permanent exhibitions – regular 6,50 PLN, discounted 3,50 PLN
Temporary exhibitions – regular 4,50 PLN, discounted 2,50 PLN
Sundays - permanent exhibitions : admission free
Museum guide – 16 PLN
Old town guide – 32 PLN
Foreign language guide – 54 PLN
The museum is housed in the old
Bishop’s Palace located within the limits of the old town complex
whose history goes back to the 14th century. The permanent and
temporary miscellaneous theme exhibitions are held in the original
old historic halls and rooms of the Palace. The museum also organizes
conferences and scientific symposiums for international participants
as well as meetings with interesting and outstanding personalities
of Podkarpacie as well as concerts. The museum co-operates with
many cultural and educational institutions domestically as well
as internationally.
The Museum holds the following permanent exhibitions:
Ancient History of Podkarpacie The living past – archeological
exhibition set around an exposed fragment of the 14th c. Krosno
city wall. The exhibition presents the history of the early settlement
in Podkarpacie. The exhibition has been awarded prizes by the
Minister of Culture and National Heritage.
History of Krosno and the region – this exhibition presents the
history of the Royal Town of Krosno based on the most recent archeological
discoveries (unique historical artifacts of the 13th and 14th
centuries) as well as documents, photographs, paintings, mementos
related to the 19th c. Galicia and the struggle for independence
from the 18th to 20th century.
History of Lighting and Collection of Kerosene Lamps – the main
attraction of this exhibition is the finest and largest in Europe
collection of original Kerosene lamps including exhibits by miscellaneous
European and American makers. The exhibition presents the most
popular sources of light in chronological order. The collection
includes also numerous mementos of the first Kerosene lamp inventor
Ignacy Łukasiewicz.
Gallery of the 19th and 20th c. Krosno Art – art gallery of both
painting and sculpture by artists of the town and region, graduates
of the Polish and foreign Schools of Fine Arts.
Glassware of Podkarpacie Glassworks – exhibition of everyday use
and artistic glass products manufactured by glassworks of Podkarpacie.
Patterns and products from the oldest European glass manufacturers
including the oldest European glass maker the Krosno Glassworks;
presented exhibits range from the everyday use glassware of the
interwar period to the contemporary art glass.
Playel Grand Piano dated around 1856 – the only fully operable
piano in Poland by Playel , a grand piano maker from Paris, France,
of whose instruments one of the greatest users was Frederic Chopin.
Captions under photographs:
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Portrait of a wife – Stanisław Bergma |
Winter – Seweryn Bieszczad |
Stanislaw-Bergman |
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Glassware
from Podkarpacie Glassworks |
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Early medieval arms |
Fragment
of exhibition set along the city walls of Krosno |
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Mammoth bones found by
the Wisłoka River |
Ashtray
– bronze period |
Treasure
of the bronze ornaments of Hłomcza |
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Cressets |
Commemoration Book and medal of
Ignacy Łukasiewicz dated 1878
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Hanukah lamp
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WWI armsj |
The WWII military uniforms of the Polish
Army |
Early medieval arms |
Pasiak (the striped clothing) from the
Dachau Concentration Camp |
Gold incrusted cup and the 15th century
pottery |
Legionnaires shield, Fragment of the
History of Lighting exposition |
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