Sacred Museum of the Zamość Cathedral

The Sacred Museum of the Zamość Cathedral (formerly the Collegiate Church Museum, the Zamoyski Family Foundation) - is a museum based in Zamość, Poland. The facility operates at the Cathedral of the Resurrection and St. Thomas the Apostle, Zamość, and its headquarters is the ground floor of a former prelate building, dating from the late 16th century.

Sacred Museum of the Zamość Cathedral
Muzeum Sakralne Katedry Zamojskiej
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Established1987
Locationul. Kolegiacka 1a, Zamość, Poland
Coordinates50°42′58″N 23°15′02″E / 50.71611°N 23.25056°E / 50.71611; 23.25056

The museum was opened in March 1987, thanks to the efforts of the last head of the Zamoyski Family Fee Tail, Jan Tomasz Zamoyski.[1] As part of the museum exhibition you can see monuments of sacred art from the treasury of the cathedral, including:

Following renovation and conservation work in 2018-2019 covering both buildings (the Infułatka and the Vicarage),[2] from 2020 the museum will consist of two main expositions occupying the aforementioned two historic buildings: the Vicarage (3 Kolegiacka St.) houses the "Treasury of History, Art and Science" [3] exhibition, while the Infułatka (1a Kolegiacka St.) is dedicated to the "Fabrica Ecclesiace museum of technology and architecture" exhibition.[4]

References

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  1. ^ "Muzeum Sakralne Katedry Zamojskiej" [The Sacred Museum of the Zamość Cathedral]. www.pascal.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 10 August 2019.
  2. ^ Fabrica Ecclesiae - remont zabytkowego budynku infułatki na cele rozwoju działalności kulturalno-edukacyjnej zespołu katedralnego w Zamościu wraz z zagospodarowaniem terenu
  3. ^ MSKZ - Skarbiec Historii, Sztuki i Nauki
  4. ^ MSKZ - Fabrica Ecclesiae