Muzeum im. Emeryka Hutten-Czapskiego
Emeryk Hutten-Czapski wasn’t a museum founder in the usual sense—he was a collector whose life was shaped by risk. Born in 1828 and dying in 1896, Count Hutten-Czapski served as Vice-Governor of Saint Petersburg and assembled a major collection of books, prints, and numismatics at his family estate in Stankow. Fearing for its safety while remaining close to Russia, he moved the collection to Kraków. In 1894 he bought a 19th-century palace on Piłsudskiego Street and had an addition built to house it; he even personally catalogued the collection. When he died before the addition was finished, his wife, Baroness Elzbieta Meyendorff, completed the work. In 1904—at her husband’s request—she donated the collection to the city of Kraków, creating the basis for this branch museum of the National Museum of Kraków. …
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