University Museum
This University Museum grew out of a collection that began as an academic “cabinet,” not a public institution: the *Gabinet Archeologiczny* was founded in 1867 by professor Józef Łepkowski. In the years around after 1860, Austrian authorities prevented the university from using the official term “museum,” so the holdings were re-framed politically as the “Cabinet of Art and Archaeology”. You can see the museum’s present home in the building of Collegium Maius, on the corner of ulica św. Anny and Jagiellońska. Its modern form is tied to Karol Estreicher, whose work helped shape the site after the war—supported by the fact that the Jagiellonian Library left Collegium Maius in 1940. Full renovation linked to that transition ran from 1949 to 1964, and the museum is effectively dated to 1964. …
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