Museum of Industry and Agriculture
The Museum of Industry and Agriculture (Polish: Muzeum Przemysłu i Rolnictwa) is a former museum of technology and agriculture at 66, Krakowskie Przedmieście in Warsaw, Poland.
History
[edit]It was founded in 1866 on the initiative of Jan Tadeusz Lubomirski and was chartered on June 5 1875. Among its notable co-founders were philanthropists count Feliks Sobański, Józef Zamoyski, Karol Dittrich and Hipolit Wawelberg, the Polish-Jewish banker.[1] From 1881 it was located on Krakowskie Przedmieście in a former guardhouse and Bernardine monastery. It contained archives of the history of Polish industry, agriculture and crafts.[2] It ran temporary exhibitions and opened permanently to the public in 1905 but was destroyed in 1939 during World War II.
It housed a physics laboratory run by Józef Boguski where the future double Nobel laureate, Marie Curie, began her scientific career in 1890–91.[3]
After World War II, the work of the Museum was divided among three other institutions:
- The Museum of Industrial History in Opatówek
- The National Museum of Agriculture in Szreniawa
- Warsaw University of Life Sciences
Notes
[edit]- ^ Koperska T., Łukomska E., Bibliografia do dziejów Muzeum Przemysłu i Rolnictwa za l. 1875–1939
- ^ E. Chwalewik, Zbiory polskie w ojczyźnie i na obczyźnie... (Polish Collections in Poland and Abroad...), vol. 2, Warsaw, 1927, pp. 353–56.
- ^ Turystyki, Stołeczne Biuro. "Warszawa śladami Marii Skłodowskiej-Curie | WarsawTour - Oficjalny portal turystyczny m.st. Warszawy". sklodowska.um.warszawa.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 2018-03-20.
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