Building the identity of 25 years of Wroclaw University Museum

2017 was the year of the 25th anniversary of Wroclaw University Museum, which is located in the main baroque university building, managing the historic buildings connected to the activities of the Wroclaw alma mater.

The Museum was founded on 6th August 1992 as the result of converting the Museum Collection Department of the Archives of the University of Wroclaw into an independent administration unit. In the beginning, the Museum consisted of historic interior rooms open to the public, i.e. The Aula Leopoldina and the so-called Ceasar’s Stairs, and since 1997 the Oratorium Marianum as well. In the following years, the Mathematical Tower was opened for visitors (in 2000), and in 2002 the permanent exhibition was placed in the Roman Longchamps de Bérier’s Room. The breakthrough came along with the 200th anniversary of the University of Wroclaw (2011), when the space of the permanent exhibition was extended by adding Stefan Banach’s Room and the adjoining hall, while the third room called Under the Pillar was allotted for temporary exhibitions. All the rooms have been renovated and re-arranged. The new scenario takes into account the complex 300-year history of the University, from the Jesuit Academy Leopoldina founded in 1702, the era of Universitas Litterarum Wratislaviensis (1811–1911) and the Silesian University of Frederick Wilhelm (1911–1945), to the after-war period with special regard to the pioneer era (1945–1948) and the ‘founding capital’ from the Lviv scientists.

2017 was the year of the 25th anniversary of Wroclaw University Museum, which is located in the main baroque university building, managing the historic buildings connected to the activities of the Wroclaw alma mater.

The Museum was founded on 6th August 1992 as the result of converting the Museum Collection Department of the Archives of the University of Wroclaw into an independent administration unit. In the beginning, the Museum consisted of historic interior rooms open to the public, i.e. The Aula Leopoldina and the so-called Ceasar’s Stairs, and since 1997 the Oratorium Marianum as well. In the following years, the Mathematical Tower was opened for visitors (in 2000), and in 2002 the permanent exhibition was placed in the Roman Longchamps de Bérier’s Room. The breakthrough came along with the 200th anniversary of the University of Wroclaw (2011), when the space of the permanent exhibition was extended by adding Stefan Banach’s Room and the adjoining hall, while the third room called Under the Pillar was allotted for temporary exhibitions. All the rooms have been renovated and re-arranged. The new scenario takes into account the complex 300-year history of the University, from the Jesuit Academy Leopoldina founded in 1702, the era of Universitas Litterarum Wratislaviensis (1811–1911) and the Silesian University of Frederick Wilhelm (1911–1945), to the after-war period with special regard to the pioneer era (1945–1948) and the ‘founding capital’ from the Lviv scientists.