Mirosław A. Supruniuk
Opuscula Musealia, Volume 21, Volume 21 (2013), pp. 35 - 53
https://doi.org/10.4467/20843852.OM.13.003.2913
University museums in Poland, like most similar institutions throughout Europe, are generally museums of the history of the academic establishments in which they were created. The University Museum in Toruń is different in this respect. It was established in 2005 out of the need to take care of already existing museum collections, first of all the works of art by Polish artists living abroad and of artists of the Vilnius and Toruń schools. It is not that the Museum doesn’t deal with the documentation of the history of science in Vilnius and in Toruń, but its science collection is only marginal.
Mirosław A. Supruniuk
Opuscula Musealia, Volume 22, Volume 22 (2014), pp. 45 - 71
https://doi.org/10.4467/20843852.OM.14.003.3201
Polish Science in the middle and central east in the years 1942–1949
Part I. Persia
In the years 1942–1949 a few Polish science institutions and one higher school were active in Persia and Lebanon. They were created and staffed by scientists who were deported to eastern territories of the Soviet Union in 1940/1941. After the Polish-Soviet agreement in 1941, they left the Soviet Union with the Polish Army under General W. Anders. Most of them formerly worked at the Stefan Batory University in Vilnius. The leading figure involved in the organisation of those institutions was Professor Stanisław Kościałkowski. The emerging organisations, modelled after science institutes in Vilnius, conducted scientific research, collected source materials, created libraries, published journals and scientific publications and educated students. They closed when the Poles left Lebanon.