The Museum of Architecture (in

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: ''Muzeum Architektury'') is in

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.Wroclaw Museums and Wroclaw Art GalleriesWroclaw, PolandWorld Guides
The museum was founded in 1965 and located in the historic Old Town. The museum is the only

architecture Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and constructing building ...

museum in Poland.Museum of Architecture in Wroclaw, Wroclaw Online, Poland. www.wroclaw-online.eu/68-museum_of_architecture_in_wroclaw-museum It is located in a 15th-century post- Bernardine set of buildings, including the St Bernardine of Sienna Church and a monastic quadrangle with a garden. The Museum of Architecture was a founder-member of the

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(ICAM). The museum's collections illustrate the evolution of architecture in general, although with a specific focus on Poland. The largest collection of stained glass in Poland can be found here. Permanent exhibitions on display are: "Relics of Wroclaw's Mediaeval Architecture"; "Architectural Craft from the Twelfth to the Twentieth Century"; "Wroclaw: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow"; "The Art of Geometry: A Gallery of Polish Geometrical and Constructivist Art".

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