Opening hours: Closed Mondays and days following public holidays; open all other days, 9am-4pm.
The Zamosc Museum is housed in a group of the so-called Armenian Houses at the town's Grand Marketplace. Constructed in the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in the styles of Renaissance, Mannerism and Baroque, these buildings are a constituent part of the original urban and architectural design of the "gem of the Polish Renaissance" or the "Padua of the North", as Zamosc is referred to. Indeed, the town, built in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, had been planned in accordance with the Italian ideal town planning principles, and as such has been entered on the UNESCO's world heritage list.
The Museum opened in 1926 as the Museum of the Zamosc Region. Renamed the District Museum in 1975, it is now called the Zamosc Museum.
The Museum's archaeological holdings include exhibits ranging in date from the tenth century B.C. to the mid-thirteenth century A.D. and acquired following the 1950's research by the Czerwienskie Grody Commission and through excavation projects carried out locally. The ethnographical holdings include local folk art, costume from the area of Zamosc, Bilgoraj and Hrubieszow, ritual artefacts, household equipment, a collection of nineteenth-century sacred folk sculpture, and textile printing boards. The art holdings encompass a collection of sacred paintings and sculpture from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, portraits from the Zamoyski family palace at Klemensow, a collection of ex librises extending from the eighteenth century to the 1930s, and the 1619 verge of the Zamosc Academy. The Museum's special holdings include a collection of 152 old prints, of which 107 came out of the printing house of the Zamosc Academy in the sixteenth through the eighteenth century. On display are also manuscripts, archive records, with Zamosc's location act of 1580, as well as other materials presenting the history of the town, with a special focus on the role of the Zamoyski family. The numismatic holdings encompass banknotes, coins, medals and securities. There is a collection of seventeenth-century Polish and foreign coins, with sixty talars and two-szelags of the Pomeranian princes.
Permanent exhibitions: "The Region of Zamosc: Prehistory and Early Middle Ages"; "Folk Art of the Zamosc Region"; "Zamosc, the Zamoyskis and Their Estate: 1580-1939".
Muzeum Zamojskie
ul. Ormiańska 30
22-400 Zamość
Region: lubelskie
Phone: (+48 84) 638 64 94-7
Phone/Fax: (+48 84) 638 42 02
WWW: www.muzeum-zamojskie.one.pl
Email: biuro@muzeum-zamojskie.pl