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Szczecin National Museum

Muzeum Narodowe w Szczecinie
Main building of the National Museum in Szczecin
Established	1945
Location	Wały Chrobrego 3 Szczecin, Poland
Coordinates	53°25′48″N 14°33′53″E / 53.43°N 14.5648°E / 53.43; 14.5648
Type	National museum
Director	Lech Karwowski
Curator	Dariusz Kacprzak
Website	www.muzeum.szczecin.pl

The Szczecin National Museum (Polish: Muzeum Narodowe w Szczecinie) is a national museum in Szczecin, Poland, established on 1 August 1945. The museum features ancient and modern art, archaeological, historical, numismatic, nautical and ethnographic collections and is divided into six branches, five located in Szczecin and one in Gryfice.

Departments

The six branches are:

• Main Building of the Muzeum Narodowe w Szczecinie, Wały Chrobrego 3 – Maritime Museum
• Szczecin's History Museum, Old Town Hall, Księcia Mściwoja II 8
• Museum of Regional Traditions, Staromłyńska 27
• Museum of Contemporary Art, Palace of the Heads, Staromłyńska 1
• Dialogue Center "Breakthroughs" (Polish: Centrum Dialogu „Przełomy”), Solidarności 1 Square
• Narrow Gauge Railway Exhibition in Gryfice

• Szczecin's History Museum
• Museum of Regional Traditions
• Museum of Contemporary Art

Directors

• Lech Krzekotowski (1945–1949)
• Józef Marciniak (1949–1952)
• Natalia Pacanowska-Haltrecht (1952–1955)

• Władysław Filipowiak (1955–2000)
• Lech Karwowski (2001–present)

Old Art Gallery collection

• Columns from the Kołbacz Abbey
• St. John's Polyptych
• Part of the scene of baptism Christ in the Jordan (Quarter from the St. John's Polyptych)
• Portrait of Philip I, Duke of Pomerania, Lucas Cranach the Younger
• Sidonia von Borcke, by unknown artist
• St. John the Evangelist, Bernardo Cavallino
• Without land, Wojciech Gerson
• Grand kermess, David Vinckboons
• Zrękowiny, Włodzimierz Tetmajer
• View of Szczecin, Ludwig Eduard Lütke
• Portrait of the writer Georg Hirschfeld and his wife Ella, Lovis Corinth
• Portrait of a dancer Antonia Mercé called "La Argentina", Max Slevogt

See also

• List of museums in Poland

External links

• National Museum, Szczecin, Official website
• National Museum, Szczecin, Facebook fan page

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