Digitization and sharing the museum collections

In 2019, thanks to the fi­nan­cial support of the Min­istry of Culture and Na­tional Her­itage, within the frame­work of the col­lec­tion dig­i­ti­za­tion project, the Museum of Ar­chi­tec­ture began to share its re­sources. In the first stage, we made avail­able col­lec­tions related to 20th century ar­chi­tec­ture, in­clud­ing ar­chi­tec­tural designs, models, pho­tographs and archives related to the work of promi­nent Polish ar­chi­tects in­clud­ing Bohdan Lachert, Józefa Szana­jca, Maciej Nowicki, Andrzej Fry­decki, Helena and Szymon Syrkus, Maria and Witold Molicki, Tadeusz Teodor­ow­icz-Todor­owski, Stefan Müller and many others. In this stage, more than 5,000 ex­hibits were dig­i­tized, processed, and made available.

The next stage of dig­i­tiz­ing and sharing the col­lec­tions in­cludes 3,500 items gath­ered since 1965 in all of the Museum’s de­part­ments. They were se­lected par­tic­u­larly to enable a wide au­di­ence to learn as much as pos­si­ble about the Museum’s diverse assets. It’s a cross-sec­tion of the im­pres­sive col­lec­tion of the only museum solely devoted to ar­chi­tec­ture in Poland, which com­prises several hundred thou­sand ex­hibits created from an­tiq­uity to the present day, in­clud­ing ma­te­r­ial remains of no longer ex­ist­ing ar­chi­tec­tural works, iconog­ra­phy and doc­u­men­ta­tion of ar­chi­tec­tural ideas, as well as works of con­tem­po­rary art. A special place in the col­lec­tion is oc­cu­pied by objects related to the ar­chi­tec­ture, culture and history of Wroclaw.

The search engine works like a web browser. If the number of results is to be limited to the exact phrase, it should be put in in­verted commas. As you type in the subject you are looking for, prompts will help you to find a par­tic­u­lar artist. The absence of a hint means that an author of this name does not appear in the part of the col­lec­tion made avail­able. The tab also con­tains down­load­able ma­te­ri­als – com­plete data­bases from the sec­tions of In­ter­war Ar­chi­tec­ture and Con­tem­po­rary Architecture.

Dig­i­ti­za­tion and sharing the col­lec­tions of Museum of Ar­chi­tec­ture in Wrocław (part II)

Digital Culture Pro­gramme

Total value of the task: 56,800 PLN

The project was co-fi­nanced by the Min­istry of Culture and Na­tional Her­itage from the Culture Pro­mo­tion Fund – a state spe­cial-pur­pose fund.

Funding value: 45,000 PLN

Date of signing of the funding con­tract: July 2023