National Museum, Warsaw. The National Museum in Warsaw, popularly abbreviated as MNW, is a national museum in Warsaw, one of the largest museums in Poland and the largest in the capital.
It comprises a rich collection of ancient art, counting about 11,000 pieces, an extensive gallery of Polish painting since the 16th century and a collection of foreign painting including some paintings from Adolf Hitler's private collection, ceded to the Museum by the American authorities in post-war Germany. The museum is also home to numismatic collections, a gallery of applied arts and a department of oriental art, with the largest collection of Chinese art in Poland, comprising some 5,000 objects.
The Museum boasts the Faras Gallery with Europe's largest collection of Nubian Christian art and the Gallery of Medieval Art with artefacts from all regions historically associated with Poland, supplemented by selected works created in other regions of Europe. The National Museum in Warsaw was established on 20 May 1862, as the Museum of Fine Arts, Warsaw, and in 1916 renamed National Museum, Warsaw.
The collection, on Jerusalem Avenue, is housed in a building designed by Tadeusz Tolwinski, developed between 1927 and 1938. In 1932 an exhibition of decorative art opened in the two earlier erected wings of the building.
The new building was inaugurated on 18 June 1938. From 1935 the museum director was Stanislaw Lorentz, wh
It comprises a rich collection of ancient art, counting about 11,000 pieces, an extensive gallery of Polish painting since the 16th century and a collection of foreign painting including some paintings from Adolf Hitler's private collection, ceded to the Museum by the American authorities in post-war Germany. The museum is also home to numismatic collections, a gallery of applied arts and a department of oriental art, with the largest collection of Chinese art in Poland, comprising some 5,000 objects.
The Museum boasts the Faras Gallery with Europe's largest collection of Nubian Christian art and the Gallery of Medieval Art with artefacts from all regions historically associated with Poland, supplemented by selected works created in other regions of Europe. The National Museum in Warsaw was established on 20 May 1862, as the Museum of Fine Arts, Warsaw, and in 1916 renamed National Museum, Warsaw.
The collection, on Jerusalem Avenue, is housed in a building designed by Tadeusz Tolwinski, developed between 1927 and 1938. In 1932 an exhibition of decorative art opened in the two earlier erected wings of the building.
The new building was inaugurated on 18 June 1938. From 1935 the museum director was Stanislaw Lorentz, wh
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