 | The Tatra
Museum
in Zakopane |
W języku polskim
Tatra Museum Director: Teresa Jabłońska
Address: Muzeum Tatrzańskie im. Dra Tytusa Chałubińskiego
34-500 Zakopane, ul. Krupówki 10, tel. (+48)18-20-152-05
Oficjalna strona Muzeum Tatrzańskiego: www.muzeumtatrzanskie.pl
The Tytus Chałubiński Tatra Museum belongs to the oldest regional museums in
Poland. It originates in the second
half of the 19th century when the Tatra Mts and the region of Podhale began to
play an increasingly prominent role in Polish culture.
The activities of the Museum cover the area of the Tatra Mts, the regions of
Podhale, Spisz and Orawa at the foot of the Tatras, and the Pieniny Mts, all
having very distinct landscape assets, histories and ethnographic
characteristics.
The Tatra Museum is multidepartmental. The three collections-based departments
are those of natural science,
ethnography (both organized in the
first years of the Museum's operation) and
art. Among the auxiliary
departments mention is due to the
library and the archive of
literature from and on the regions specified in the Museum's statutes.
Besides its basic activities, such as the acquisition, elaboration, storage and
presentation of its holdings, the Museum has for many years been engaged in
restoration undertakings. The
'spatial museum', a display of
architectural relics in natural settings, results from the combination of
typical museum tasks and restoration endeavours.
Initially based in one building, with years the Museum has been extended to
include new branches and embrace time-honoured buildings and complexes
renovated or adapted for museum purposes. At present, exhibitions are
accessible in
the main buildings and branches in
Zakopane:
the Kornel Makuszyński Museum;
W. and J. Kulczycki Gallery;
Władysław Hasior Gallery;
and
the Stanisław Witkiewicz Museum of Zakopane Style.
Outside Zakopane are the Museum of the
Chochołów Uprising in the village of Chochołów
and the
Manorial Complex at Łopuszna near Nowy Targ. The Museum has two
branches in the Polish part of the region of Spisz:
the Korkosz Croft at Czarna Góra and
the Sołtys Croft at Jurgow.
Temporal shows are put on in addition to permanent exhibitions in the main
building and filial branches.
The Tatra Museum is the publisher of Rocznik Podhalański (Podhale Yearly) as
well as proceedings of scholarly sessions and guide-boks.
Within the framework of its educational activities, the Museum popularizes the region through lectures, talks, films and
excursions. The reactivated Tatra Museum Society, based in the Koliba House, operates in affiliation with the Museum. The
Society organizes lectures, meetings and exhibitions. The Society offers night's lodging to visitors to the Manorial Complex
at Łopuszna.
Zbigniew Ładygin ysladyg@cyf-kr.edu.pl
Last update 2 June 2002