Z dziejów Działu Etnografii Pozaeuropejskiej Muzeum Etnograficznego w Krakowie

• Autorzy: Kamocki J.

Warianty tytułu

EN

On the history of the Non-European Ethnography Division of the Ethnographic Museum in Cracow

• Języki publikacji: PL

Abstrakty

EN

The oldest ethnographic collections from outside Europe which today form part of the collection of the Ethnographic Museum in Cracow were first exhibited in 1886 and came, on the one hand, from the Siberian collection of Bendykt Dybowski, which he had brought along when returning from his exile, and on the other hand, from the Cameroon collection that had been gathered by the first Polish expedition to Africa. At that time Cracow (Kraków) lacked the necessary institutions to deal with such collections, and that is why a permanent exhibition could be organised only after the Ethnographic Museum was set up in Cracow in the year 1911, and when it obtained exhibition space at the Royal Castle in Wawel. In 1939, the Second World War caused a break in the Museum's activities and the Museum had to abandon the castle. After the war, the Museum was housed in the former Town Hall of Kazimierz (now part of Cracow), and it was there that the Museum's exotic collections were transferred. It was not until 1951, however, that the possibility appeared of making them available to students and research workers. Soon afterwards, in response to an attempt by the emergent Museum of Folk Cultures in Warsaw to take over all the collections of non-European collections in Poland, a special division of Non-European Ethnography was established at the Cracow Ethnographic Museum, headed by J. Kamocki, which, in the years to follow, organized several dozen exhibitions in Cracow and in other cities in Poland. As time went by, the exotic collections grew, supplied by donations from other museum which had small exotic ethnographic collections, as well as from soldiers of the Polish Aremd Forces in the West, who donated exhibits that they had gathered in the Middle East and Africa during the war, from Polish missionaries to Oceania, from B. Małkin (Latin American exhibits) and A. Wawrzyniak (exhibits from Indonesia and Nepal). Membeers of the Museum's staff, J. Kamocki and K. Wolski, conducted research and amassed collections for the Museum in Indonesia, India, Nepal and Afghanistan. The growing collections could have allowed the Museum to work out a conception of a permanent exhibition of the Musem and they even would have made possible the establishment of a separate Museum of Non-European Ethnography. Unfortunetaly the Ethnographic Museum abandoned any such plans and today its exotic collections are exhibited only on an occasional basis.

Słowa kluczowe

PL

etnografia; egzotyka; zbiory etnograficzne

EN

ethnography; exotics; ethnographic

• Wydawca: Instytut Historii Nauki im. L. i A. Birkenmajerów Polskiej Akademii Nauk
• Czasopismo: Kwartalnik Historii Nauki i Techniki
• Rocznik: 1998
• Tom: R. 43, nr 3/4
• Strony: 87--110
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 18 poz.

Twórcy

autor

Kamocki J.

• Kraków