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Muzeum Mazowieckie w Płocku
ul. Tumska 8, 09-402 Płock
Leonard Sobieraj
tel. (+48 24) 364 70 71 (siedziba),
262 25 95 (Spichlerz)
fax (+48 24) 262 44 93
www.muzeumplock.art.pl

The Museum of Mazovia (Muzeum Mazowieckie) is housed in the restored Castle of the Mazovian Princes, which is today a seventeenth to nineteenth century structure having eleventh century foundations and fourteenth century towers. The Museum was originally founded as the Public and School Museum of the Plock Voivodship on the initiative of members of the Plock Academic Society in 1821, it survived for approximately fifteen years, until 1836. Revived in 1907 as the Museum of the Plock Region of Mazovia, it was named after Professor Ignacy Moscicki in 1928. The present name has been in use since 1963, and since 1968, the Museum has specialized in Art Nouveau.

The Art Section holds the Art Nouveau collections, which include glass, pewter, silver, jewellery, ceramics, clothes and accessories, furniture and other items of interior decoration. Sculpture and painting are also strongly represented through works by artists such as S. Wyspianski, J. Mehoffer, E. Okun, K. Stabrowski, W. Weiss and others. The Art Section also has a collection of eighteenth through twentieth century silver made by Warsaw manufacturers.

The Historical Section presents regional history through cartography, seals, jewellery, postcards and photographs and family mementoes, as well as numismatic objects such as ancient and modern coins, banknotes, medals and plaques.

The Archaeological Section contains archaeological finds from the Plock Valley and Plock Mazovia and includes flint inventories from the Upper Palaeolithic and the Mesolithic as well as compact sepulchral groups from the eleventh to the thirteenth century and a sixteenth century chordophone.

On display in the Ethnographic Section is a collection of Mazovian sculptures, with images of Christ the Sorrowful, as well as textiles, ceramics and decorative paper cutouts.

Permanent exhibitions: Plock in the Earliest Times (To The Thirteenth Century); Art Nouveau; Gallery of Polish Painting and Sculpture of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century; Collection of Decorative Arts; Art Deco; Boleslaw Biegas: His Sculptures and Paintings; Inside the Plock Mazovia Museum; The People of Plock and their Fight for Freedom in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.

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