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After the war, the museum was reopened under its current name and buildings for it were rebuilt in the years 1948–1954 in the context of the unprecedented reconstruction of historic Warsaw. In 2010-2012 the eleven houses of the museum were renovated with the help of Norwegian funding. In April 2014 museum changed its name to Museum of Warsaw.
Kormchaia Book from Dzików: 15th century A collection of rules of the Orthodox Church from the 15th century, providing a unique example of the activity of canonists in the lands that once belonged to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. [29] New Testament from the 8th century: 8th century One of the oldest manuscripts in any Polish collection.
[6] [7] Today it is a part of the Polish National Library's Special Collections Section (specializing in manuscripts and old prints) from the Załuski Library (only 5% of the former collection remains in the palace, the rest was deliberately destroyed by the Germans after the collapse of the Warsaw Uprising in October 1944).
The Oneg Shabbat archive was a secret project of Jewish prisoners in the Warsaw Ghetto to record their histories as they awaited deportation to Nazi death camps during World War II. Lauren ...
The paintings have been created between the 7th and 14th centuries and were found on various layers of plaster (due to multiple stages of building of the cathedral and covering the walls with newer images). The wall paintings are images of Christ, Mary, angels and archangels, saints, bishops and rulers. They are painted al secco. [7]
After the outbreak of World War II, following the capitulation of Warsaw in September 1939, the Wehrmacht took control of the palace. Two months after the Warsaw Uprising, between 27 and 29 December 1944, the Saxon Palace was blown up by the Germans as part of their planned destruction of Warsaw. [6] [7]. Only a fragment of the arcades housing ...
Anna Maria Żarnowska (née Rozwadowska; 28 June 1931 – 9 June 2007, in Warsaw) was a Polish historian and researcher of the Polish labour movement and women's history at the University of Warsaw. She was invested with the Officer's Cross of the Order of Polish Revival in 2003.
The exhibit officially opened April 27, but in the first three weeks of a "soft opening" before then, more than 13,000 people from more than 32 states visited. Pete and Deb Pettit at The Rabbit ...