Czartoryski Museum - Krakow, Poland
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N 50° 03.896 E 019° 56.435
34U E 424177 N 5546387
This Museum was established in 1878.
Waymark Code: WMQ263
Location: Małopolskie, Poland
Date Posted: 12/04/2015
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Wikipedia (
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"The Czartoryski Museum and Library (Polish: Muzeum Ksiazat Czartoryskich w Krakowie) is a museum located in Kraków, Poland, founded in Pulawy in 1796 by Princess Izabela Czartoryska. The Pulawy collections were partly destroyed after the November uprising of 1830–1831 and the subsequent confiscation of the Czartoryskis' property by the Russians. Most of the museum holdings, however, were saved and moved to Paris, where they reposed at the Hôtel Lambert. In 1870 Prince Wladyslaw Czartoryski decided to move the collections to Kraków, where they arrived in 1876. The city was granted a degree of autonomy after the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867.
The best-known work on display at the museum is The Lady with an ermine by Leonardo da Vinci, the only painting of the artist which still remains in a private collection, as well as the only work of the Italian genius conserved in a Polish museum. As such, it is one of the best known works of Da Vinci. Other the highlights of the collection are two works by Rembrandt, several antiquities, including sculptures, Renaissance tapestries as well as decorative arts, and paintings by Luca Giordano, Pieter Brueghel the Younger, Dieric Bouts, and the Master of the Female Half-Lengths."
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