Opening hours: Closed Saturdays; Mondays 10am-3pm, Tuesdays, Thursdays 9am-3pm, Fridays 10am-5pm, Sundays, Easter Monday and Boxing Day 10am-3pm.
The Museum is housed in a group of buildings of the former Piarist monastery. Predominantly Baroque with some classicist elements, the buildings were designed by Antonio Solari, constructed in the years 1737-56, and restored in 1981-95.
The Museum originated from the private holdings of Priest Jan Wisniewski, who made them available for the public to see in his flat since 1910. He then presented the collection to the Radom Division of the Society for the Promotion of National Heritage and Nature, which opened a public museum in 1923. In 1933 the Museum was given the name of Jacek Malczewski on the 140th anniversary of the painter's birth.
The Department of Archeology preserves exhibits ranging in date from the Old Stone Age to modern times, with particular emphasis on bell graves and Roman influences. The Department of History collects documents, iconography, newspapers, posters and leaflets reflecting the history of Radom, its crafts and trades, of independence, social, and workers' movements. Of note is a valuable collection devoted to the January 1863 Rising and to the period of World War II. The Numismatics Section preserves Polish coins, banknotes, shares, treasury bonds and medals commemorating people and events, national orders and distinctions received by the distinguished citizens of Radom, military orders and distinctions from World War II, official seal pistons, business and personal stamps from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Department of Old Art displays paintings, graphics, sculpture and decorative arts from the second half of the nineteenth century to 1945. It has a number of paintings by painters of the Young Poland movement, especially by J. Stanislawski, L. Wyczolkowski and S. Wyspianski, with a considerable collection of works by J. Malczewski and J. Brandt. There is also a valuable collection of paintings of the inter-war period by T. Axentowicz, F. Pautsch, K. Sichulski and S. I. Witkiewicz, as well as a collection of sculpture, predominantly portraits, by J. Tatarkiewicz and others. The Department of Non-Professional Art holds oils and glass paintings as well as prints and drawings by H. Walicka, T. Ociepka, Nikifor, and other artists. The Department of Nature and Wildlife has holdings in paleontology, ornithology, zoology and entomology, and boasts a unique collection of birds, bird nests and eggs.
Permanent exhibitions: "Jan Kochanowski: Life and Work"; "Before There Was a Town: The Origins of Radom"; "A Castle Once Stood...".
Muzeum im. Jacka Malczewskiego w Radomiu
Rynek 11
26-600 Radom
Region: mazowieckie
Phone: (+48 48) 362 21 14, 362 56 94
Fax: (+48 48) 362 34 81
WWW: www.muzeum.edu.pl
Email: malczewski@muzeum.edu.pl