THE ENGLISH VOYAGE OF MICHAŁ JERZY WANDALIN MNISZECH AND PLAN TO FOUND THE POLISH MUSEUM
It is the plan to found the Polish Museum declared in 1775 by Michał Jerzy Wandalin Mniszech (1748–1806) that is tackled in the paper. Argumentation is presented that the major impulse for the idea to establish a museum in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was felt by Mniszech following his visit t...
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Index Copernicus International S.A.
2021
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| Summary: | It is the plan to found the Polish Museum
declared in 1775 by Michał Jerzy Wandalin Mniszech
(1748–1806) that is tackled in the paper. Argumentation is
presented that the major impulse for the idea to establish
a museum in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was felt
by Mniszech following his visit to the British Museum in
1766. It is from the inspiration by that Museum that the
overall structural scheme of the Polish Museum, adjusted
to the Polish potential and conditions was conceived. Just
like the latter, the Polish Museum was to be funded with
public financing and opened to the general public, while its
main raison d’être, similarly as that of the London museum,
was benefit understood as supporting and popularizing
knowledge, since Mniszech’s museum first of all was to be an
educational institution targeted mainly at young people and
calculated to yield future advantages. Next to the reformed
general public system and the academy of sciences, it was
to become an essential element of the coherent system
of science and education which M.J. Mniszech considered
a condition and basis of the wealth and success of the state
and nation. The ambitious and unaccomplished plan to
found the Polish Museum formed part of the committed
programme of the revival and civilizational promotion of
the state suffering at the time the process of degradation.
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