Museum of the University of Wroclaw

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Museum of the University of Wroclaw - an academic museum collecting collections related to the history of the University of Wroclaw.

The Museum was established on August 6, 1992, as a result of the transformation of the Museum Collections Department of the University of Wrocław Archives into an independent university unit. On May 13, 2005, the Department of the University of Wroclaw 'House of Archaeologist' was established on the campus at ul. Koszarowa 3 (building No. 8), where temporary exhibitions related to archaeological research are presented.

The museum is located in the main university building in Wrocław, a baroque building designed by Christoph Tausch, located on the banks of the Odra River (University Square 1). Its architectural silhouette, enriched by a wonderful sculptural and painting design, is one of the most valuable Baroque monuments in Poland and Central and Eastern Europe.

The Museum consists of the following historic rooms:

• Leopoldin's Hall - the largest and most representative hall of the main building - the only such well-preserved secular baroque interior with full decoration, which consists of the illusionistic wall painting of Johann Christoph Handke of Olomouc, and decoration and sculptural equipment by Franz Mangoldt from Moravia and Italian master Ignatius Provisore.

• Marianum Oratorium with the baroque décor and furnishings as rich as the Baroque style, was founded as a chapel in 1728-1741. After the secularization of the Jesuit Order and the establishment of the University in 1811, the interior was transformed into a concert Hall of Music.

• The Mathematical Tower with an observation deck at the height of 42 m is a former University of Longinus Longinus Anton Jungnitz professor of the University of Longinus in 1791, with the first device - marked on the floor of the tower room by the meridian line. This is the only instrument of this type in Poland.

• and three exhibition rooms: Sala im. Romana Longchamps de Bérier, Sala im. Stefan Banach and Sala Pod Filarem.

The museum has a historical profile, and its collections are largely devoted to the broadly understood history of the university - from the fifteenth century to the present. The oldest collections still have a birth certificate of the Leopoldian Academy, most of it comes from a later period, after 1811. Bibliography

Henryk Dziurla, University of Wrocław, Wrocław-Warsaw-Kraków-Gdańsk 1975.

Henryk Dziurla, Christophorus Tausch. Student Andrei Pozza, Wrocław 1991.

Ks. Zdzisław Lec, Jesuits in Wroclaw (1581-1776), Wrocław 1995.

Carsten Rabe, Alma Mater Leopoldina. Collegium and University of Jesuits in Wroclaw 1638-1811, Wrocław 2003.

Urszula Bończuk-Dawidziuk / Magdalena Palica: Collections of works of art, in: The Memorial Book of the Jubilee of the 200th anniversary of the establishment of the State University in Wrocław, ed. Jan Harasimowicz, vol. 2: Universitas litterarum Wratislaviensis 1811-1945, Wroclaw 2013, p. 528-545.

Urszula Bończuk-Dawidziuk / Magdalena Palica: Collection of monuments of ancient architect Eduard Schaubert (1804-1860) from the collections of the former Wroclaw University Museum, in: The Memorial Book of the 200th Anniversary of the establishment of the State University in Wroclaw, ed. Jan Harasimowicz, vol. 4: University of Wrocław in European culture of the 19th and 20th centuries. Materials of the International Scientific Conference, Wrocław 4-7 October 2011, ed. Jan Harasimowicz, Wrocław 2015, pp. 231-238.

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