About museum
The museum preserves, researches, protects, makes available, and disseminates the rich material and spiritual heritage of past generations.
The core of our collections are valuable artistic, historical and ethnographic souvenirs, which are testimony to the culture, history and aspirations of the inhabitants of Leszno and the region. It consisted of - apart from contemporary acquisitions obtained through gifts and purchases - collections secured after World War II in the Monuments Depository of the Western Institute in Leszno, transfers from local government institutions and argentaria and other movables taken away by the Nazis from the Church of the Czech Brethren, reclaimed in 1962 from area of the former German Democratic Republic. Historical collections illustrating the culture of former Leszno also include: coffin portraits of the Calvinist nobility from the church of St. Jan, portraits of the rifle kings - members of the Leszno shooting brotherhood from 1715–1936, court images of representatives of the Leszczyński, Sułkowski families and other aristocratic and noble families from the region of southwestern Greater Poland.
In addition to these historical collections, which document the state of possession of institutions, religious communities and bourgeois houses, the Museum has been collecting artistic collections since the beginning of its existence. Our leading collections include, among others, a collection of Polish paintings with rural themes from the 19th and 20th centuries and portrait paintings.
The museum is active through various exhibition, educational and publishing activities. The Painting Objects Conservation Studio, which has been operating in the Museum continuously since 1976, guarantees high care for the collected works.
The core of our collections are valuable artistic, historical and ethnographic souvenirs, which are testimony to the culture, history and aspirations of the inhabitants of Leszno and the region. It consisted of - apart from contemporary acquisitions obtained through gifts and purchases - collections secured after World War II in the Monuments Depository of the Western Institute in Leszno, transfers from local government institutions and argentaria and other movables taken away by the Nazis from the Church of the Czech Brethren, reclaimed in 1962 from area of the former German Democratic Republic. Historical collections illustrating the culture of former Leszno also include: coffin portraits of the Calvinist nobility from the church of St. Jan, portraits of the rifle kings - members of the Leszno shooting brotherhood from 1715–1936, court images of representatives of the Leszczyński, Sułkowski families and other aristocratic and noble families from the region of southwestern Greater Poland.
In addition to these historical collections, which document the state of possession of institutions, religious communities and bourgeois houses, the Museum has been collecting artistic collections since the beginning of its existence. Our leading collections include, among others, a collection of Polish paintings with rural themes from the 19th and 20th centuries and portrait paintings.
The museum is active through various exhibition, educational and publishing activities. The Painting Objects Conservation Studio, which has been operating in the Museum continuously since 1976, guarantees high care for the collected works.
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