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On the ruins of the prewar institution, the City Museum organised by Polish authorities began to operate as early as in 1945. It took over the building which during air raids and artillery fire ravishing the city in March 1945…

The manner of operation of the photography lab of the City Museum in Gdansk (Stadtmuseum Danzig) was reconstructed on the basis of pre-war negatives and archival documents. Owing to the surviving negatives immortalising mainly the collections and displays of the…

Until 1939, for more than fifty years of its existence, Stadt- und Kunstgewerbemuseum built up rich collections representing various genres of fine and decorative arts. From the very beginning, the creators of the institution were guided by the idea to…

The State Archives in Gdansk keep a precious source for research into the wartime losses of the City Museum and the Decorative Arts Museum in Gdansk (Stadt- und Kunstgewerbemuseum Danzig). It is an inventory of pre-war glass negatives belonging to…

Kowalska, Straty wojenne Muzeum Miejskiego (Stadtmuseum) w Gdańsku. Seria nowa, t. 1, Malarstwo, Gdańsk 2017. Straty wojenne. Kolekcja Jacoba Kabruna, t. 1, Historia i dokumentacja, oprac. K. Zabuska, Poznań 2000. Straty wojenne. Kolekcja Jacoba Kabruna, t. 2, Katalog, oprac. K.…

Results of investigations into wartime losses, conducted by employees of the National Museum in Gdansk, have been published consistently since 2000. The first to be issued was Kalina Zabuska’s three-volume work devoted to prints from Kabrun’s collection. Published in 2006,…

The National Museum in Gdansk has been conducting investigations into its wartime losses for many years. The first attempts at the estimation of their volume were undertaken soon after the discontinuation of wartime operations. The inventory of the surviving historical…