Szczecin National Museum

Szczecin National Museum
Muzeum Narodowe w Szczecinie
Main building of the National Museum in Szczecin

Established	1945
Location	Wały Chrobrego 3 Szczecin, Poland
Coordinates	53°25′48″N 14°33′53″E / 53.43°N 14.5648°E / 53.43; 14.5648
Type	National museum
Director	Lech Karwowski
Curator	Dariusz Kacprzak
Website	www.muzeum.szczecin.pl

The Szczecin National Museum (Polish: Muzeum Narodowe w Szczecinie) is a national museum in Szczecin, Poland, established on 1 August 1945. The museum features ancient and modern art, archaeological, historical, numismatic, nautical and ethnographic collections and is divided into six branches, five located in Szczecin and one in Gryfice.

Departments

The six branches are:

Main Building of the Muzeum Narodowe w Szczecinie, Wały Chrobrego 3 – Maritime Museum
Szczecin's History Museum, Old Town Hall, Księcia Mściwoja II 8
Museum of Regional Traditions, Staromłyńska 27
Museum of Contemporary Art, Staromłyńska 1
Dialogue Center "Breakthroughs" (Polish: Centrum Dialogu „Przełomy”), Solidarności 1 Square
Narrow Gauge Railway Exhibition in Gryfice

Szczecin's History Museum
Museum of Regional Traditions
Museum of Contemporary Art

Directors

Lech Krzekotowski (1945–1949)
Józef Marciniak (1949–1952)
Natalia Pacanowska-Haltrecht (1952–1955)

Władysław Filipowiak (1955–2000)
Lech Karwowski (2001–present)

Old Art Gallery collection

Columns from the Kołbacz Abbey
St. John's Polyptych
Part of the scene of baptism Christ in the Jordan (Quarter from the St. John's Polyptych)
Portrait of Philip I, Duke of Pomerania, Lucas Cranach the Younger
Sidonia von Borcke, by unknown artist
St. John the Evangelist, Bernardo Cavallino
Without land, Wojciech Gerson
Grand kermess, David Vinckboons
Zrękowiny, Włodzimierz Tetmajer
View of Szczecin, Ludwig Eduard Lütke
Portrait of the writer Georg Hirschfeld and his wife Ella, Lovis Corinth
Portrait of a dancer Antonia Mercé called "La Argentina", Max Slevogt