The Bielsko-Biała Museum, also known as the Castle of the Sułkowski Princes (

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: ''Zamek książąt Sułkowskich'') is a museum for the city of

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located in the historical Bielsko Castle. Three local branches of the museum have been established since the 1970s: the

Julian Fałat Julian Fałat ( Tuligłowy, near Lwów, 30 July 1853 – 9 July 1929, Bystra Śląska) was one of the most prolific Polish watercolorists, one of the country's foremost landscapists, and a leading impressionist. Life Fałat studied at the ...

Museum, the Museum of Technology and Textile Industry, and the

Weaver's House Museum The Weaver's House is a unique example of the 18th-century American Craftsman, craftsman architecture. Located in Bielsko-Biała, it is situated in the Old Uptown in a log cabin with its characteristic hay store. The building is a museum branch be ...

History of the Museum

The Bielsko-Biała Museum, with its main location in the historical Bielsko Castle has maintained museum traditions conceived at the beginning of the 20th century, when the local government of

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n Bielsko and Galician Biała founded two separate museums. The older Biała Municipal Museum was set up upon the initiative of Bielsko Gymnasium (lower secondary school) teacher Erwin Hanslik by virtue of the

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Resolution of 19 December 1902. At the same time, in a forum of the City Council of neighbouring Bielsko, similar initiative was taken by Arthur Schmidt, a

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of that town. In the months that followed, by his application, in 1903 there was undertaken in Bielsko and its surroundings a splendid action of collecting artefacts of museum-value. Its outcome was shown in June 1903 at Bielsko Shooting Gallery at a display of local antiquities. A few months later Bielsko City Council called into being Municipal Museum in Bielsko. Some time passed, however, before both museum opened to the public. The Biała Museum was opened on 3 December 1904 in the

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, where it functioned until 1920. Then the activities of the Museum were suspended, its exhibits stored in one room and the facility changed its purpose. It was not until 1932 that the Museum was reopened, this time in the basement of the building, where it functioned until the outbreak of World War II when the Museum closed down. The Bielsko Museum was opened to the general public on 25 February 1906 in the building of Old

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at 9 Rynek, where it operated without a closure until 1941. During the

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, thanks to the endeavours of its

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, Edward Schnack, the exposition significantly grew in number. At that time it was one of the largest regional museums in Poland and the third in Silesia, preceded by those functioning in

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and Cieszyn. In 1941, the

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authorities joined the two municipal museums in the so-called Heimatmuseum, which was housed in Biała in the former

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house. There it survived until the end of World War II. In 1945 a decision was passed to revive the museum. The Municipal Museum in Bielsko opened to the public on 14 February 1947. Since the 1970s, several local branches have been established: the

Museum (1973), The "Museum of Textile Technology" – at present the Museum of Technology and Textile Industry (1979) and the

(1992). Since 2001 the museum has been called the Bielsko-Biała Museum and since 2013 the Bielsko-Biała Historical Museum.

The Castle

Towering in the

city centre, the Castle is the oldest and largest construction of historical importance, erected in the old town of Bielsko. A legend says that in its place there used to be a settlement of robbers who attacked travelling

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s. The Opole Prince, Casimir (1229/30) of the

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s is said to have conquered that fortalice, wiped out the robbers and had the hunting palace erected in that place, which over the years grew into a magnificent castle around which the city of Bielsko developed. The oldest part of the Castle dates back to the 14th century. Over the next centuries the Castle gradually developed and transformed. It is a city castle in its nature, incorporated into the system of Bielsko

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from the beginning, at the same time providing their strongest section. Over the centuries it performed the function of a

n border-

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, first guarding the borders of

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and

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district duchies and then in the second half of the 15th century it protected the

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and

state border and from 1526 - the Austrian-Polish border. Starting from the close of the 16th century, its defensive role was declining and the Castle gradually transformed into a

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. The present appearance of the castle dates back to the last, thorough reconstruction undertaken in the second half of the 19th century, which entirely wiped out its previous characteristics of style. During the years 1899-1973, in place of brick breast wall presently seen on the east part of the Castle, there used to be a parade of bazaars, constituting an attractive architectural foundation for the body of the Castle. The bazaars were pulled down in connection with widening of Zamkowa Street. The Castle erected by Piasts ruling over the Cieszyn Dutchy was one of their residences for over two centuries. From 1572 it was the administrative and commercial centre of the independent class-based Bielsko state, governed by representatives of nobleman's families of the Promnitzes,

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es, Sunneghs,

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es and

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es. In 1752, the position of that state was raised to the position of duchies which went into the rule of the

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s family. The Bielsko Dutchy existed until 1849, when

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introduced modern administrative division, thus doing away with old

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structures and was incorporated into Bielsko District Starosty. The Castle itself and numerous estates in the vicinity of the city remained in the possession of the Sułkowskis until 1945. After

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the Castle was taken over by the Polish State as the property left by the

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and was facilitated as the seat of many cultural institutions. Since 1983 the Castle sole usufructary has been the national Museum in Bielsko-Biała, subordinated to Silesian local government in

Permanent exhibition

The permanent

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in the Castle encompasses a number of rooms on the first floor. The accession to it runs along the 19th century vestibule, restored in 2001. In the west wing of the building the

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room and

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are located. The next two rooms display three centuries of

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from the 15th to the 17th century. Neighbouring with these rooms are a

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and a

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room. The Castle's east wing contains a gallery of the 19th and 20th century

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and

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traditions of old Bielsko and Biała. The east wing of the castle is occupied by

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. The 19th paintings displayed here include works of art representing

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and

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, Młoda Polska (Young Poland) paintings, works of artists connected with Bielsko-Biała during the twenty years of independence after

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and during the modern times. Along the courtyard-facing vestibule there has been displayed a collection of graphic art produced by artists of the early 20th century as well as

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s showing inhabitants of Bielsko and Biała in the 19th and 20th century. Furthermore, on the ground floor of the Castle there are three other rooms housing museum's temporary exhibitions.

Museum of Technology and Textile Industry

The Museum preserves traditions of the

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industry in Bielsko-Biała, by means of collecting machines, equipment and documents related to this field of

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. The exhibits are stored in four rooms. Each of them is commensurate with division of old

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– preliminary treatment mill,

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mill and finishing mill. A separate unit consists of machines for making

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s. The display is complemented by exhibition devoted to the history of Bielsko-Biała

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and of municipal

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. There is also a little

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and a so-called museum granary, where all the historical

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equipments,

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sets,

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s etc., are being stored. The historical

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machines and

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tools remind of the traditions of

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processing

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in Bielsko.

The Weaver's House

Reconstruction of the interior of a

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's house and

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owned by a

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underlies the exhibition housed in the Weaver's House. Its arrangement is an attempt to bring closer the living and working conditions in a house of the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. A hall splits the house into two major sections – workshop on the left of the entrance and living quarters on the right, with a kitchen and a bedroom. The Weaver's House reveals an original example of the former wooden town

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. It is a unique attempt to show

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's work, fully shaped by strong guild's position.

Julian Fałat's Villa

The museum of

in Bystra Śląska is housed in a historical

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of the artist, called “Fałatówka” and its visitors are introduced to the art and some biographical details of the artist. This is the house where the artists lived upon retirement from the position of a rector of the Cracow Academy of Fine Arts. The exhibition presents

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s and

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self-portrait Self-portraits are Portrait painting, portraits artists make of themselves. Although self-portraits have been made since the earliest times, the practice of self-portraiture only gaining momentum in the Early Renaissance in the mid-15th century ...

s of his family and friends,

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s from his numerous travels and hunting-related works. The exhibition is enriched with archival material devoted to the life artistic output and social activities for the benefits of society. Exhibits include School Certificates, photographs of Fałat with his family and friends,

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s, honorary mentions, distinctions, letters and souvenirs related to his travels around the world.

Gallery

File:Carl von Blaas - Włoszka w stroju narodowym.jpg, ''Italian Woman in National Costume'', Carl von Blaas, 1880 File:Henryk Siemiradzki - Portret kobiety - Rzymianka.jpg, ''Portrait of a Roman Woman'',

Henryk Siemiradzki Henryk Hektor Siemiradzki (24 October 1843 – 23 August 1902) was a Polish painter. He spent most of his active creative life in Rome. Best remembered for his monumental academic art, he is particularly known for his depictions of scenes from th ...

, 1900 File:František Šimon - Targ.jpg, ''Street Market'', František Šimon, ca. 1910 File:Paul-Albert Girard - Kobieta z instrumentem muzycznym.jpg, ''A Woman with a Musical Instrunent'', Paul-Albert Girard, ca. 1875 File:Bertold Piotr Oczko - Mężczyzna w czerwonej chustce.jpg, ''Man Wearing a Red Scarf'', Bertold Piotr Oczko, ca. 1935 File:Carl Moll - Wzgórze wartownicze w Wiedniu.jpg, ''Guard Hill in Vienna'',

Carl Moll Carl Julius Rudolf Moll (23 April 1861 – 12 April 1945) was an Austrian Art Nouveau painter active in Vienna at the start of the 20th century. He was one of the artists of the Vienna Secession who took inspiration from the pointillist techniqu ...

, 1903 File:Abraham Neumann - Pejzaż z małego miasteczka.jpg, ''View of a Small Town'', Abraham Neumann, ca. 1910 File:Jacek Malczewski - Studium kobiety przy oknie.jpg, ''Study of a Woman by the Window'',

Jacek Malczewski Jacek Malczewski (; 15 July 1854 – 8 October 1929) was a Polish symbolist painter who was one of the central figures of the patriotic Young Poland movement. His works combined the predominant style of his time with historical motifs of Pol ...

File:Peter Michal Bochúň - Scena miłosna w parku.jpg, ''Love Scene in a Park'',

Peter Michal Bohúň Peter Michal Bohúň (29 September 1822, Veličná - 20 May 1879, Bielsko-Biała) was a Slovak painter, primarily of portraits, although he also did landscapes and altarpieces. Biography His father was a Lutheran minister. He went to the public s ...

, ca. 1860 File:Tadeusz Popiel - Na podkrakowskiej drodze.jpg, ''A Countryside Road Near Kraków'',

Tadeusz Popiel Tadeusz Popiel (1863, Szczucin - 22 February 1913, Kraków) was a Polish painter, known for his religious and historical scenes; especially his work on several famous panoramas. His brother was the sculptor, Antoni Popiel. Biography He was bor ...

, ca. 1890

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