Muzeum Etnograficzne
Seweryn Udziela’s ethnographic collecting lies at the origin of this museum’s mission, and the building you’re approaching connects that mission to Kazimierz’s civic past. Plans began in 1902, linked to an exhibition of folk art drawn from Udziela’s collection, arranged through the Polish Applied Arts Society. In 1904, the National Museum created an ethnographic department and opened a permanent ethnographic display in the Cloth Hall. That arrangement shifted in 1910, when the Society of the Ethnographic Museum was founded and took over the collections. A year later, in 1911, the museum expanded with a separate branch at Studencka Street, with Udziela as director; the collections were later moved to Wawel. After World War II, the museum’s seat moved to Plac Wolnica 1. …
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