The Museum of "Goldsmithing Art" (in Polish museum"Sztuki Złotniczej") in Kazimierz Dolny was established in mid-1978. It was located in the basement of a bourgeois tenement house, located just off the Kazimierski Market Square. It was intended to exhibit and popularize this wonderful field of art. The first permanent exhibition was opened in 1979, and consisted of the collection of Jędrzej Jaworski, one of the initiators of the museum, who decided to donate his collection as the beginning of the museum collection, as well as deposits from the National Museum in Warsaw, the District Museum and the Diocesan Museum in Lublin.
The museum collects primarily Polish silver as well as foreign centers that influenced the shaping of our goldsmithing art.
The exhibitions are presented in thematic blocks:
cult Christian and Judaic silver of the XV-XX century
table silver of Russian and Western European masters of the 18th and 19th centuries
table silver of Polish goldsmiths' centers of the 18th and 19th centuries
Warsaw silver from the end of the 17th century to the end of the 19th century
Polish contemporary goldsmithing
The Museum of Goldsmithing Art houses a unique - not only in Poland, but also in Central and Eastern Europe - permanent exhibition, which is a reconstruction of the interior of an old goldsmith's workshop.
In the collection of contemporary goldsmithing (about 840 objects), the vast majority of the collection is jewelry. Most of the exhibits were acquired in the first years of the Museum's establishment, then the collection was successively enlarged.
It is mainly silver jewelry presented in 14 showcases, sometimes richly decorated with amber, coral, semi-precious stones, mother-of-pearl. One can also see objects combining silver with unconventional materials such as wood, copper or titanium. Many of the presented products come from the workshops of prominent Polish artists. A number of these works have won awards at exhibitions at home and abroad.
Below are photos taken at the museum. Below is also a list of artists whose wares can be seen there.
Jadwiga and Jerzy Zaremski bracelet.
A display case with jewelry by Danuta and Szczęsny Kobielski.
"Elephants" jewelry set by Kamila Rohn 1988-1998.
Jerzy Stolarski bracelet 1980r.
Necklace from 1993 by Jan Suchodolski.
A display case with jewelry by Jan Suchodolski and Pawel Kaczynski.
Goldsmith etude "For two inverted bracelets" (original title "Na dwie odwrócone bransolety") 2001 by Jacek Baron.
Display case of Jadwiga and Jerzy Zaremski.
Dorian Grabowski's Jewelry 2015 and Rafal Wisniewski's "For Three Bracelets" (original title "Na trzy bransolety") Etude 1995-2001.
Among the products on display at the museum are works by Jozef Fajngold, Henryk Grunwald, Jadwiga and Jerzy Zaremski, Maria Lewicka-Wala, Olgierda Vetesco, Jolanta Ołdachowska Ryba, Danuta and Szczęsny, Jacek Kobielski, Maria and Paweł Fietkiewicz, Marcin Zaremski, Ewa Czarnota-Czarny, Łukasz Zaremski, Jacek Rochacki, Tomasz Zaremski, Jacek Byczewski, Cezary Łutowicz, Mariusz Pajączkowski, Joachim Skólski, Kamila Rohn, Andrzej Mrozinski, Cezary Łutowicz, Marek Beczka, Andrzej Bandkowski, Jan Suchodolski, Paweł Kaczyński, Marek Huculak, Jarosław Westermark, Bożena and Wojciech Skowron, Joanna and Tadeusz Jaworski, Malgorzata Janowska, Rafal Wisniewski, Dorian Grabowski, Jack Hohensee, Andrzej Cubrzycki, Stanislaw Dawid, Jack Baron, Antek Zaremski, Grazyna M. Czarnecka - Majewska, Andrzej Pacak, Michal Kapczynski, Marcin Gronowski, Janusz Bozek, Barbara and Andrzej Bielak, Lucyna and Marek Nieniewski, Ewa and Jacek Skrzynski, Andrzej Szadkowski, Hanna and Jacek Zdanowski, and Jacek Wysokiński.
Link to the museum's website: https://mnkd.pl/muzeum-sztuki-zlotniczej/
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