National Museum in Warsaw
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National Museum in Warsaw, Masovian Voivodship, Poland - exists from May 20 1862 as Museum of Fine Arts in Warsaw, renamed in 1916 to National Museum in Warsaw (together with inclusion of collection from different museum and cultural institutions how: the Society of Care over Relics of Past, Museum of Antiquity at Warsaw University, the Museum of Society for Encouragment of Fine Arts and the Museum of Industry and Agriculture.) Current seat in Aleje Jerozolimskie was devleopoed from 1927 to 1938 (until the time the museum was based in 15 Podwale Street). In 1932 an exhibition of decorative art was opened in the two earliest erected wings of the new building. In 1935, the director of musema became a prof. Stanisław Lorentz. The whole seat was officially inaugurated on 18 June 1938. During the years of World War II building was damaged and the most valuable exihibit was taken away or they were in raked parts and destroyed by Hitlerites. After the war Polish Government onducted the action of revindicatoin (supervison by prof. Lorentz) seized by Germans of works of art from terrain of whole country. The quantity of exhibits increased in avalanche way. At present, the collection of the National Museum in Warsaw includes over 780 0000 items displayed in many permanent galleries (ex. the gallery of Ancient Art, The Professor Kazimierz Michałowski Faras Gallery, Gallery of Mediaeval Art, the Gallery of Foreign Painting, the Gallery of Polish Painting, Gallery of European gold smithery Art, Gallery of Orient Art, the Gallery of 20th century Polish Art, the Gallery of Polish Decorative Art, Gallery of European Decorative Art) and many temporal exhibition.
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