Collections
Ceramic Collection
The ceramics collection accompanies the activities of the Castle Museum in Malbork from the beginning of its establishment in 1961. In the first year, it collected only specimens of porcelain from 19th-century Volhynia manufactories, and a year later it started to buy utility ceramics from Polish and European workshops and faience factories. In 2000, the […]
Amber Collection
Christoph Maucher, The Casket, end of the 17th century, collection of the Castle Museum in Malbork, photo: Bożena and Lech Okońscy A lump of amber with animal inclusion Figure of an athlete, workshop of Jacob Dobbermann (?), 2nd quarter of the 18th century Kolia Sferowiec, Paulina Binek, purchased in 2009. The construction of the […]
Architectural Detail Collection
The collection of architectural details is related to the scientistic restoration of the castle, during which it was regothised using medieval elements of architecture found in the rubble. The initiator of this undertaking was Conrad Steinbrecht, who eagerly brought to the Malbork castle all the architectural details that could be obtained without major detriment to […]
Historical Documentation
Map of the Kingdom of Prussia and Polish Royal Prussia, along with marked postal routes. Map from Johann Baptista Homann Neuer Atlas bestehend in einig curieusen Astronomischen Mappen und vielen auserlesenen allerneuesten Land-Charten über die Gantze Welt … from 1710; Homann’s heirs; Nuremberg, after 1729, handmade paper, copperplate engraving manually colored with watercolors A postcard […]
Albums of the Castle Recovery
The 19th and 20th century studio of the History Department stores, among others photographic documentation called Albums Rebuilding the Castle. It is a set of 49 volumes containing about 2,400 photos, which is one of the most important sources of the iconographic history of reconstruction and conservation works from the first years after the war […]
Exlibris Collection
The bookplate collection includes over 22,000 objects, which are small, graphic prints with a dedication in the composition field, which includes the phrase ex libris (“from the book”) or its substitute, and the name and surname of the owner or the name of the institution (e.g. museum or libraries). They are related to the custom […]
Tile Collection
The collection of tiles and antique stoves is one of the newest collections of the Castle Museum in Malbork, established in 1990. It has over 1,100 inventory entries, which translates into several thousand monuments. Its core is made of tiles and their fragments from archaeological and architectural research carried out on the grounds and in […]
Painting Collection
The present painting collection of the Castle Museum in Malbork was completely created from scratch along with his appointment. Thus, she is only an ideological heir of the castle’s old collection of paintings, either completely lost or dispersed after World War II. The first purchases of paintings took place in 1961. In the following 1960s […]
Malbonaria
The collection of architectural details is related to the scientistic restoration of the castle, during which it was regothised using medieval elements of architecture found in the rubble. The initiator of this undertaking was Conrad Steinbrecht, who eagerly brought to the Malbork castle all the architectural details that could be obtained without major detriment to […]
Furniture Collection
Furniture is one of the oldest types of objects found in the Malbork castle. In the Middle Ages, they were produced on site in a woodcarving workshop, and stored in several dozen rooms of the castle complex. The conscious creation of the furniture mobilizer’s collection began at the end of the 19th century with the […]
Historical Metal Collection
Elaborate metal products, especially silver, began to be collected in the Malbork Castle at the very beginning of the concept of creating a museum institution there, which took place in the 1820s. When the castle was turned into an interior museum, which happened at the end of the 19th century, the rooms were equipped with […]
Military Collection
The armament is one of the oldest types of objects found in the Malbork castle. In the Middle Ages, they were produced on site in a smithy, bell foundry and woodcarving, while they were stored in several armories. The creation of the military collection began at the beginning of the 19th century with the romantic […]
Numismatic Collection
The numismatic collection of the Castle Museum in Malbork consists of two collections kept in Malbork (approx. 7,500 items, divided into three collections: Coins, Medals, Copies, Banknotes and others) and in Kwidzyn (442 items). In both castles, relics were stored in pre-war times. Until World War II, Malbork housed one of the richest research workshops […]
Timer Plates and Monuments
In the Castle Museum in Malbork there is a collection of 32 tombstones and monuments from various historical periods. This collection was created in 1993. The greater part of it are objects that are the legacy of the pre-war Castle Reconstruction Authority in Malbork. All objects are presented on the grounds and in the castle […]
Sculpture Collection
The collection of architectural details is related to the scientistic restoration of the castle, during which it was regothised using medieval elements of architecture found in the rubble. The initiator of this undertaking was Conrad Steinbrecht, who eagerly brought to the Malbork castle all the architectural details that could be obtained without major detriment to […]
Cabinet of Prints
The collection of prints of the Castle Museum in Malbork contains over 1000 monuments. This resource includes engravings, drawings, watercolors and graphic plates, created over five centuries, from the 16th to the 20th centuries. The most important group of over one hundred compositions, made in various graphic and drawing techniques, is a set of historical […]
Artistic Glass Collection
In 1968, following the needs of the moment, and due to the lack of its own artefacts destroyed or looted during the war and shortly after the war, the Castle Museum in Malbork began by exhibiting and collecting contemporary art. On May 16, 1970, there was an opening of 169 unique glasses by Zbigniew Horbowy […]
Monuments of Technology
LorMonuments of Technology is the youngest of the castle collections – it was established in 2003. At present, it has 25 objects divided into three groups: the first one includes mechanical devices that constitute the permanent equipment of the groats mill at the High Castle. The team includes: a mill, walker, sifter, mill and treadmill. […]
Fabric Collection
FaThe collection of historic fabrics was formally created only in 1978, although the first textiles: tapestries and carpets, were purchased in 1961, shortly after the establishment of the Castle Museum in Malbork, with a view to furnishing empty castle chambers. These first acquisitions marked a practical direction for the development of the future collection, oriented […]
Collection of Stained Glass
The stained glass collection includes 211 objects. It consists mainly of the nineteenth and twentieth century remains of the old stained glass glazing of the castle complex, as well as the relics of the Malbork stained glass glazing of the New Town Hall, from 1927-1929 by Fritz Burmann. In the group of nineteenth-century stained glass […]
Archaeological Laboratory
The archaeological collection is one of the largest collections created since the beginning of the museum’s existence. Today, the core of this collection, numbering about 11,000 artifacts, are objects obtained from numerous research expeditions led by the employees of the department in Lower Powiśle over the course of sixty years. A small number of relics […]
Tapesteries
There are five tapestries in the fabric collection of the Castle Museum in Malbork. All of them were made in Flanders (Brussels, Oudenaarde, Antwerp) in the period from the end of the 16th century to the beginning of the 18th century. Tapestry is a monumental multi-colored decorative fabric with figural, landscape-plant or heraldic representations. In […]
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