Archaeological Museum in Poznan - main entry
photo: Piotr Lubomirski
The museum is situated in a Renaissance palace, the city residence of Gorki family dating from the first half of the 16th century, with a preserved early Renaissance portal and a courtyard with a colonnaded cloister.
In 1857, the Poznan Society of the Friends of Learning at the Department of Historical and Moral Studies established a Museum of Polish and Slavic Antiquity. In 1923, these museum's collections were combined with similar collections from the former Provincial Museum, which had been founded by the Germans in 1894, thus forming a separate Pre-Historical Division of the Wielkopolska Museum, having its own building. An independent Pre-Historical Museum was opened in 1945, renamed as the Archeological Museum in 1950. Artefacts from archeological excavations, the first dating from 1857-1876, span from the Stone Age to the Middle Ages. Among these artefacts are groups of relics from burial grounds, settlements, fortifications and surface excavations. Some of the most valuable include a canoe dating from 1800 B.C. (Ciesle), a copper artefact dating from the early Stone Age (Skarbienice), copper oxen once yoked together, and 8 small axes from the Neolithic period (Bytyn), a bronze stiletto sceptre (Leki Male) and bronze artefact from the Unietic culture (Granowo), exhibits from Lusatian burial grounds in Gorszewice, a Pomeranian bronze breastplate (Mrowilo), an iron helmet covered with a gold-plated copper sheet (Giecz), silver ornaments (Psary), groups of relics from archaeological excavations in SudanZitems from a Neolithic settlement and burial ground in Kadero (Sudan), and relics from a pre-dynastic burial ground in Miinshat Abu Omar, Egypt.
Permanent exhibits: "The Prehistory of Wielkopolska," "Life and Death in Ancient Egypt".
Exhibition "The Prehistory of Wielkopolska"
photo: Piotr Lubomirski
Exhibition "The Prehistory of Wielkopolska"
photo: Piotr Lubomirski
Exhibition "The Prehistory of Wielkopolska"
photo: Piotr Lubomirski
Exhibition "The Prehistory of Wielkopolska"
photo: Piotr Lubomirski
Exhibition "The Prehistory of Wielkopolska"
photo: Piotr Lubomirski
Muzeum Archeologiczne w Poznaniu
ul. Wodna 27
61-781 Poznań
Region: wielkopolskie
Phone: (+48 61) 852 64 30 dyrektor
Phone/Fax: (+48 61) 852 82 51, 852 53 06
WWW: www.muzarp.poznan.pl
Email: e-mail: muzarp@man.poznan.pl