The Museum of Architecture (in
Polish: ''Muzeum Architektury'') is in
Wrocław
Wrocław is a city in southwestern Poland, and the capital of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship. It is the largest city and historical capital of the region of Silesia. It lies on the banks of the Oder River in the Silesian Lowlands of Central Eu ...
,
Poland
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Wroclaw Museums and Wroclaw Art Galleries
Wroclaw, Poland
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The museum was founded in 1965 and located in the historic Old Town
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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 construction, constructi ...
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. Bernardino of Siena Church and a monastic quadrangle with a garden.
The Museum of Architecture was a founder-member of the International Confederation of Architectural Museums
The International Confederation of Architectural Museums (ICAM) is an organisation of architectural museums, centres and collections. It was founded in 1979.ICAMAbout retrieved 1 August 2014
Members
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* Architekturzentrum Wien
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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".
References
External links
Museum website
Architecture museums
Architecture
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