Muzealnictwo (Sep 2019)
POLISH CENTRAL MUSEUM REPOSITORY FOR GDAŃSK VOIVODESHIP. PART 2: IN SOPOT AND IN OLIWA
Abstract
The second part of the paper on the repositories located in Sopot and Gdańsk-Oliwa refers to the articles on Polish conservation and museum repositories published in the previous issues of the ‘Muzealnictwo’ Annual, particularly in the 2018 issue No. 59. The paper covers the period 1945–1949, in which the first stage of the transport of the artistic collections to the Polish Central Museum Repository in the Gdańsk Voivodeship (PCZM) took place. Established in 1945 by the Ministry of Culture and Art (MKiS) and the Central Directorate of Museums and Collection Protection (NDMiOZ), the institution was meant to collect moveable heritage that on the grounds of the decrees issued at the time was becoming property of the Treasury of State. The main PCZM’s seat was located in Sopot, the second in Gdańsk-Oliwa. The activity of the Repository is described, and so are the responsibilities of its staff and management, number of monuments collected at a given period, operation principles, administrative reporting, financing, outlays on the edifices of the Repository buildings. Furthermore, legal and political conditioning for PCZM’s operations are given. The issued decrees and ordinances changing the political regime in the country are given; they had a direct impact on the property collected at the Repository: abandoned, former German, and former manorial and on its ownership transfer. Moreover, extracts from instructions, orders, and circulars issued by the then administration, and affecting PCZM’s goals and operating are quoted; additionally, localities from which objects were transferred to PCZM are given, and sources to further investigate the topic are pointed to.
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