The Princes Czartoryski Foundation was established by Prince

Adam Karol Czartoryski Prince Adam Karol Czartoryski (born 2 January 1940) is a Polish and Spanish aristocrat who is head of the Polish House of Czartoryski. He is related to both the Spanish royal family (House of Borbón-Anjou) and to France's House of Orléans. In ...

in 1991 to administer the Czartoryski Museum under the auspices of the

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in Kraków, Poland. Through 2016, the Princes Czartoryski Foundation was the controlling entity of the collections. The Foundation, however, now exists in name only: on 29 December 2016, its Founder and President, Prince

, donated to the Polish Nation, on his own behalf and that of his direct ancestors, all the Foundation's buildings (arsenal, monastery, museum, and library), with all their contents, valued at some 3 billion

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