0 50 100 150km Russia Lithuania THE NATIONAL MUSEUM Baltic Sea GDAŃSK B OLSZTYN e l SZCZECIN a r BRANCH IN PRZEMYŚL u s Wydział Promocji y n WARSZAWA Urzędu Miejskiego w Przemyślu The Płk. Berak Joselewicz Square 1 a POZNAŃ m r tel. +48 16 670 30 00 e Rynek 1, 37-700 Przemyśl G www.muzeum.przemysl.pl WROCŁAW opening hours: Mondays – closed Czech Republic KRAKÓW Ukraine Tuesdays and Fridays - 10.30a.m.-5.30p.m., Slovakia Design & Photo: Grzegorz Karnas THE MUSEUMS IN PRZEMYŚL Wednesdays - 10.00a.m.-3.00p.m., Thursdays - 9.00a.m. -3.00p.m. Saturdays - 9.00a.m.- 4.00p.m., Sundays 11.00a.m.-3.00p.m. M o R o g s B e a . ki K R i KKS "Czuwaj" S t O s ra o a n i im H w s 3 g c z w e z ZASANIE ie ła c c . A z e k w ty a T lc w M s ic S a a s iń k E id k s a 2 R M ie A 2 rw g ra Ó o - o K a o J . on W N k Z s . ł o A l Byzantine intaglio, heliotrope, intaglio – 10th/11th century – obverse and reverse. ó g i .K z e R G c i W C y k . a E s T nt T W w ra e T u N d A g A y l. św The Museum was established in 1909, on the initiative of local social u S ez P K ta r P iana la P lor s M . F z o rz t P s b activists, as a Museum of the Society of Friends of Science in Przemyśl. o o t y r r i B n e W cji a m m a tytu . ons b a The festive celebration of its first exhibition was held on 10 April 1910. The r l. K P a k s ja l i k a s 3 M a n a k i rtow r source of the exposition was a private collection of Kazimierz and Tadeusz e Spo e g p o o a ac Ś z Pl K C Osińscy and numerous items contributed by the citizens. In 1921, w s M y . P d . o go h i lac o Z m M J arg g P r ó Sk z s P. u i z ł rląt e t e O following its accession to the Society of Historical and Artistic Museums in e m i t ln D m s f zemy- a a Pr y o . h s M skic O Poznań, the museum assumed the name of the National Museum of the I k y I i r n a c l ego ł ą n iecki w h Czarn a t ie P J Przemyśl Land, which was reactivated in 1984. During the interwar period, na A m Dworzec PKS Ja G a M że IE K ni ze LL sza the institution encountered financial problems and inadequate space, r W yb OŃ PKP W N T o . S A O d K changing its seat several times. »From 1946 the Museum was situated in S G K n Plac Rybi A IE o a K ś a W S c P w a D d iu Plac Legionów U z o ło a t the impressive building of the former palace, belonging to Greek-Catholic S j s Ratu w Ł W z s szo a P I c wa 1 a k o P la i . W P iń i P w bishops, located in the square of J m M o . o ł 5 Z a D i sk a RS y ań A g k W KIEWICZA T. Czacki 3, which it lost in April 2000, pursuant to a decision of the property M a A. MIC r . t Kazimierza Wielkiego YB a W Rynek 2 board.« kiewicza ka 3 D n A s . Sie iszkań W H ka . anc O z r Grod B F F A B R A new branch of the Museum was opened in September 2001. It was the r i i s b S s e li K k n o STARE MIASTO d u t I y e E p r go c G y e k i Museum of Bells and Pipes – in the renovated Clock Tower at ul. i rsk z O i u k a a nig n j ity . Ś a Km Bp O e P. a t raln a ted s n a Ka i ta Władycze. A branch of the Town History was opened in April 2005 in a ń j M e s e R k Plac cz . i T late-Renaissance bourgeois town house at Rynek 9. In 2006, the 4 c y K d F ckiego h a P a Cza ł . p a W S S kow it u Ł m M K V PDS am a construction of a new building was commenced at the Berek Joselewicz Al. XX Z ln elick O . r a arm o ó K W R l l k e o A i Square, financed by the Community, self-government and ministerial w ja C e K j I funds. On the eve of its 100-year existence, the Museum finally gained its J a E a G w d K o O w s t own, suitable seat. The ceremony of its opening took place on 16 i . z g J F. a s Rakoc i . zego k a s P r o B December 2008, thus commencing the exhibiting activity of the museum. Par a p k t i a e T łu Zamkowy s z The National Museum of the Przemyśl Land is a multi-branch k óżana i institution. Its collections cover 80 thousand exhibits in the scope of R archaeology, history, art and ethnography, almost 280 thousand 1. THE NATIONAL MUSEUM, branch in Przemyśl fragments of archaeological artefacts, mainly ceramics, over 550 deposits 2. THE MUSEUM OF THE HISTORY OF PRZEMYŚL and various supporting materials. The library operating at the Museum (division of the National Museum) holds 35 thousand books in its collection, including 98 manuscripts, about 3. THE MUSEUM OF BELLS AND PIPES (division of the National Museum) 400 antique books and 600 cartographic items. 4. THE ARCHDIOCESAN MUSEUM Its Archaeological Department collects artefacts from all epochs and 5. CAPONIER 8813 prehistoric periods, the Middle Ages and modern times. Among them we Museums Tourist information Bus station may enumerate Neolithic flint and stone goods, valuable bronze artefacts Historic buildings Youth hostels Railway station and grave inventories from crematory cemeteries from the Bronze Age, Churches Hotels Petrol stations local iron items and imported goods from the Roman period, early Monuments Taxi ranks Post office Bunkers P Car parks Parks www.przemysl.pl mediaeval artefacts, among others unique grave complexes of old Hungarian cemeteries in Poland, goods showing the influences of the THE MUSEUM Taking into account that the pipe collections of the Museum have grown Byzantine and old-Russian cultures. considerably over the last several years, the extension of both exhibitions The Ethnographic Department covers the material culture of villages OF BELLS AND PIPES has been planned for the near future. The lower storey will be enriched, from the Polish and Russian borderland. There is a large collection of among others, by a collection of water pipes (nargille), Ruhle-type pipes functional items – tools, appliances and garments, ritual items (nativity division of the National Museum and elements of pipe-smoking rooms, while the upper one will show the scenes, Easter painted eggs, ritual bread), folk and amateur art items, history of the pipe from the times of Wincenty Swoboda up to now. both old and modern ones. A bell-founding exhibition is located on the subsequent four storeys of the The Historic Department documents all evidence from the past Tower, starting from the second floor. The first one presents the very relating to Przemyśl and the Przemyśl Land within its historic borders. process of bell-manufacturing, unchanged since mediaeval times. The These collections are composed of the following: numismatic items, remaining three storeys show bells and other related articles. The bigger iconographic materials, historical souvenirs (among others, those bells are hung in the tower shaft, on special steel frames. The most belonging to Professor R. Weigel and the composer A. Malawski) and interesting ones are surely the bells made in the workshops in Gdańsk and Toruń in the 17th and 18th centuries: Gerhard II Beningk (1625), Beniamin I Wittwerck (1721), Immanuel Wittwerck (1751) and Nicolas Petersilge (1759). Two bells with elements of the town’s coat-of-arms are associated with Przemyśl: a bell from the town-hall (?) founded by the town Mayors, Czehowicz and Grzybowski, from 1740 and a bell from 1878, cast in the presence of Mayor Walery Waygart by the bell-founder Jan Jaroszewski. Another interesting item is the finely ornamented bell from Daromin near Sandomierz, made in 1935 by Ludwik Felczyński in Przemyśl, probably ordered by the contemporary Pope, Pius XI. The exposition is supplemented by documents and archive records relating to the Felczyński family, who have been connected with the bell-founding craft, since 1808 in Kałusz, and since 1915 in Przemyśl. Currently, the Felczyńscy family bells are manufactured in two bell-founding plants in Location: ul. Władycze 3, 37-700 Przemyśl, Przemyśl and in Taciszów near Gliwice.