Archaeological Museum — Attraction in Poznan

The beginnings of archaeological museology in Poznań date back to the 19th century. On September 23, 1857, the Faculty of Historical and Moral Sciences of the Poznań Society of Friends of Sciences adopted a resolution on the creation of the Museum of Polish and Slavic Antiquities, which in 1882 changed its name to the Museum of Mielżyńskich. At the end of the nineteenth century, this institution had the largest archaeological collections among scientific institutions operating in the then Prussian state. In 1923, the archaeological collection of the museum was connected with the collections of the former Provincial Museum in Poznań (from 1903, the Kaiser-Friedrich Museum). At that time, a separate Prehistoric Department was established, in 1919, the Wielkopolska Museum. In 1945, the independent Prehistoric Museum was founded, renamed in 1949 to the Archaeological Museum. In 1967, the Museum obtained a new headquarters in the Górka Palace, reconstructed after the war damage. In 2007, the branch celebrated its 150th anniversary.

Two characters had a strong impact on the operations of the facility. The first one was prof. Józef Kostrzewski, a longtime director, one of the initiators of establishing the Poznań University, the discoverer Biskupin and a teacher of many esteemed archaeologists. The second was prof. Lech Krzyżaniak, who made the museum an important center of...

This has got to be one of my favourite archaeological museums ever. To be fair I have never been to an archaeological museum before this but I have been to museums with dedicated sections for archaeological artefacts and this museum in Poznan stood out. They didn't have a huge collection but they had a compact, well-curated collection with a well thought-out narrative. There were four divisions (permanent exhibitions) at the museum when I went there about three weeks ago- one was on the prehistory of the area of Poland, one was on Old Poland, one on Egyptian civilization (they had a really awesome collection of artefacts- not many but quite a few good ones) and artefacts from Sudan, explaining the Numibian civilizations. I forget the time period for the last one. Anyway, I hope this will be of help. Ticket was 10 Zloty if I am not mistaken but I think the price is on...

Very bad museum with no informative value. None of the exibits in the display about Polish history had any description - i was in shock that someone can lead a museum to such a miserable state. Visitor can only quess what they're looking at. Collection is also very small so the entrance fee is a steal. Also - there was no information about place of discovery of items and no dating. Absolute rubbish.

The only descriptions I've spotted were in the rooms with African artefacts, but even there, the situation was confusing: descriptions were on a plaque outside of glass display case, but there were no numbers that would allow us to pair description with exibits. You had to guess...