Annual Conference of The Association for Environmental Archaeology (AEA)
Eurasian Perspectives on Environmental Archaeology

September 12-15, 2007 in Poznań, Poland

Miejsce sympozjum

 

Archaeological Museum in Poznan - The Gorka Palace
Wodna 27, 61-781 Poznan, Poland
http://www.muzarp.poznan.pl/english.html

contact person: Małgorzata Winiarska-Kabacinska
Tel. +48 - 61 - 852 8251,  Fax. + 48 - 61 - 853 1010
E-mail: mwin@man.poznan.pl

 

150th Anniversary of The Archaeological Museum in Poznan

The origins of the Museum date back to September 23th, 1857 when the Department of Historical and Moral Sciences of the Poznań Society of the Friends of Sciences decided to establish the Museum of Polish and Slavic Antiquities. In 1923 the archaeological collections of this Museum were joined with a similar collection of the former Provincial Museum in Poznań (Kaiser-Friedrich Museum), founded by the Germans in 1894. From both collections an independent Department of the Wielkopolskie Museum was created with its own seat. In 1945 the independent Prehistoric Museum was established which in 1950 changed its name to the present one. In 1967 the Museum received a new seat in the Górka Palace.

Main areas of activity:  prehistoric and mediaeval archaeology of Wielkopolska (Greater Poland) and  prehistoric archaeology of Egypt and the Sudan. Collections: inventories of graves and settlements /  bronze, silver and golden hoards / collective and stray finds from Palaeolithic to Early Middle Agens /  assemblages from Mediaeval and Early Modern times from Greater Poland / archaeological finds from Egypt and the Sudan.