TY - JOUR
TI - The Concept of Work Organisation in a Scientific Institution – Surveys and Studies from the Occupation Period (1941–1942) at the State Zoological Museum in Warsaw
AU - Iwan, Dariusz
AU - Daszkiewicz, Piotr
TI - The Concept of Work Organisation in a Scientific Institution – Surveys and Studies from the Occupation Period (1941–1942) at the State Zoological Museum in Warsaw
AB - During the Second World War, the State Zoological Museum in Warsaw (PMZ) suffered severe losses. Many workers were killed, and parts of the zoological and book collections were stolen by the Germans as early as 1939. The Museum became an important centre of the resistance movement, as it became a storage for weapons, explosives, and chemicals used for sabotage. Despite the repressions, the Museum employees tried to continue their work under the occupation and developed a modern model for the functioning of this institution to be implemented after the war. In the archives of the Museum and Institute of Zoology, a folder was found containing the documentation of the surveys conducted in 1941–1942 on the organisation of work and the future structure of the PMZ. This article presents the first analysis of these documents, which turned out to be a valuable source of information on the functioning of scientific institutions during the occupation, as well as on the history of the PMZ itself.
VL - 2021
IS - Volume 66, Issue 3
PY - 2021
SN - 0023-589X
C1 - 2657-4020
SP - 51
EP - 59
DO - 10.4467/0023589XKHNT.21.018.14179
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/kwartalnik-historii-nauki-i-techniki/article/koncepcja-organizacji-pracy-w-instytucji-naukowej-ankiety-i-opracowania-z-okresu-okupacji-1941-1942-w-panstwowym-muzeum-zoologicznym-w-warszawie
KW - State Zoological Museum in Warsaw
KW - history of collections
KW - organisation of scientific work
KW - resistance movement