Event
Presentation of the catalog of the exhibition "Lost, Saved"
From September 29 to October 31, 2023, the Gothic House hosted the "Lost, Saved" exhibition devoted to the history of the creation and dissolution of the collections of the Sądecka Land Museum and the post-war fate of the Museum in Nowy Sącz. Its main part were artifacts that found their way to museum collections before the war and luckily survived it. As we know, this is only a small percentage of what has survived from the original collections. In January 1945, an ammunition depot in the Nowy Sącz castle, where the museum was located, was blown up. The building was almost completely destroyed and the museum collections were also lost.
In parallel with the organization of the exhibition, Museum employees carried out research in the archives, looking for documents that would provide a picture of the losses suffered by the Nowy Sącz museology as a result of the destruction of the castle, the predatory activities of the occupier, as well as the dispersion of the collections (in an attempt to save the collections from annexation and destruction, some were hidden by private individuals. There are speculations that not all artifacts returned to the Museum). The result of the historians' work is the catalog of the "Lost, Saved" exhibition, the presentation of which we cordially invite you to.
In parallel with the organization of the exhibition, Museum employees carried out research in the archives, looking for documents that would provide a picture of the losses suffered by the Nowy Sącz museology as a result of the destruction of the castle, the predatory activities of the occupier, as well as the dispersion of the collections (in an attempt to save the collections from annexation and destruction, some were hidden by private individuals. There are speculations that not all artifacts returned to the Museum). The result of the historians' work is the catalog of the "Lost, Saved" exhibition, the presentation of which we cordially invite you to.
In parallel with the organization of the exhibition, Museum employees carried out research in the archives, looking for documents that would provide a picture of the losses suffered by the Nowy Sącz museology as a result of the destruction of the castle, the predatory activities of the occupier, as well as the dispersion of the collections (in an attempt to save the collections from annexation and destruction, some were hidden by private individuals. There are speculations that not all artifacts returned to the Museum). The result of the historians' work is the catalog of the "Lost, Saved" exhibition, the presentation of which we cordially invite you to.
Catalog contents
Piotr Wierzbicki
The image of the Nowy Sącz castle over the centuries - analysis of the state of research
David Golik
The Nowy Sącz Castle during World War II and its destruction
Leszek Migrała
Museums in Nowy Sącz until 1945
Maria Marcinowska
District Museum in Nowy Sącz from 1975 to the present day.
Selected activities
Bartłomiej Czech
An attempt to classify war losses incurred by the Nowy Sącz Museum based on
museum inventories and preserved archival documentation
Justyna Stasiek-Harabin
The origin and fate of the exhibits of the Sądecka Land Museum until 1945.
Joanna Hołda
Collections of the Ethnographic Department
Beata Wierzbicka
Collections of the Historical and Archaeological Department
Edyta Ross-Pazdyk
Art Department Collections
The image of the Nowy Sącz castle over the centuries - analysis of the state of research
David Golik
The Nowy Sącz Castle during World War II and its destruction
Leszek Migrała
Museums in Nowy Sącz until 1945
Maria Marcinowska
District Museum in Nowy Sącz from 1975 to the present day.
Selected activities
Bartłomiej Czech
An attempt to classify war losses incurred by the Nowy Sącz Museum based on
museum inventories and preserved archival documentation
Justyna Stasiek-Harabin
The origin and fate of the exhibits of the Sądecka Land Museum until 1945.
Joanna Hołda
Collections of the Ethnographic Department
Beata Wierzbicka
Collections of the Historical and Archaeological Department
Edyta Ross-Pazdyk
Art Department Collections
