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 ...

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The museum was founded in 1965 and located in the historic

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. The museum is the only

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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

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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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Museum website

Architecture museums

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 ...

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