THE MUSEUM ASSOCIATION IN POLAND 1914–1939
Journal Title: Muzealnictwo - Year 2015, Vol 56, Issue
Abstract
The article presents basic information on the activity and changes of the organisation associating museums and their professionals in inter-war Poland. It recalls the personalities who influenced the development of museology, their opinions and the positions they held. It presents the organisation’s aims and tasks, as well as the problems which museum professionals had to face when rebuilding the Polish state after 123 years of occupation. 1914 marked the beginning of the organisation and foundation of the Polish Museum Professionals’ Delegation as a representation of Polish museums originating in the three partitions: Austrian, Russian and Prussian. In 1930 the name was changed to the Museum Association in Poland, and it was preserved until the end of the organisation’s existence in 1951. The 1930s saw a substantial development of organisations associating museums of various kinds: historical, artistic, natural, the Polish Geographical Society, specialist and ethnic.In 1939, the Association included 110 museums out of 125 in the country. The Museum Association in Poland co-authored legislative proposals related to museology, debated various general problems such as the role of museums in the state and society, relations with state authorities and local governments, the financing and development of museums, their aims and tasks, the level of museum offer as well as on training and paying museum professionals. Representatives of the Museum Association in Poland played a significant role in the National Museum Council, a consultative governmental body. One of the Museum Association’s achievements was the publication in 1947 of the Muzealnictwo handbook, as well as issuing periodicalsdevoted to museum matters.
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Agnieszka Murawska
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