Museum in Bielsko-Biała

The Bielsko-Biala Museum, with its main location in the historic Castle Museum has Bielsko traditions at the beginning of the 20th Designed to retain century, Galician than the local government of the Silesia Bielsko Biala and founded two separate museums. Erwin Hanslik by the City Council resolution of 19 December 1902 - The Municipal older Biała Museum was established on the initiative of a teacher of Bielsko Gymnasium (secondary school). At the same time, in a forum of the City Council of the adjacent Bielsko was similar initiative by Arthur Schmidt, a Protestant pastor over this church. In the months that followed by his request, in 1903 there were in Bielsko and the surrounding area a wonderful action of collecting artifacts of the museum's value to be carried out. His result was shown in June 1903 in Bielsko Shooting Gallery on a display of local antiquities. A few months later Bielsko City Council into being called Municipal Museum in Bielsko. Some time passed, but before both museum opened to the public.

The Biała Museum opened on 3rd December 1904 at City Hall, where he served until 1920. Then the activities of the museum were suspended, supported its exhibits in a room and the facility changed its purpose. It was not until 1932 that the museum was reopened, this time in the basement of the building, where he served until the outbreak of World War II when the museum closed.

The museum was Bielsko on to the general public 25th February 1906 in the building of the Old Town Hall opens at 9 Market Square, where it operated without a closure to 1941. During the period between the world wars, thanks to the efforts of its curator, Edward and whistles, the exposure has grown significantly in number. At that time it was one of the largest museums in the region in Poland, the third in Silesia, of which function in Katowice and Cieszyn advance.
In 1941 the Nazi authorities, the two municipal museums in the so-called local museum that was housed in the former Biała Guild Hall. Survived there until the end of World War II.

In 1945 a resolution was adopted to revive the museum. The Municipal Museum in Bielsko opened to the public from 14 February 1947. Since the seventies of the 20th Century there were founded its local offices: the Julian Fałat's Villa (1973), the Museum of Textile Technology - now the Museum of Technology and Textile Industry (1979) and Weber (1992). Since 2001, the Museum of the Bielsko-Biala was known museum.

The permanent exhibition in the castle Bielsko includes a series of rooms on the first floor. Accession to the runs along the 19th Vestibule century, restored in 2001. The west wing of the building, the hunting room and armory are. The rooms of the house south wing devoted part of the exhibition on the history of the city, its castle and artisan traditions and Bielsko Biala with neighboring Rococo and Biedermeier concert hall space. Antique stoves from the 18 and 19 Century, adding the size of the exhibition.

The east wing is occupied by an art gallery. The 19th Paintings displayed here are works of art, academia representing realism, Mloda Polska (Young Poland) works painting, with artists from Bielsko-Biala in the twenty years of independence after the First World War and during the combined period after World War II. The room presents Zaolzie art shows works by Polish artists create in the Czech Republic. In addition to the court directed apse there was a collection of graphic art by artists of the early 20th Century, and many portraits show people of Bielsko Biala and 19 in the and 20 Century appears prepared. Furthermore, the ground floor of the castle, there are three other rooms housing museum exhibitions.


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