Proceedings from a scientific conference held in Gdańsk, June 15-20, 2020

"The publication you have in hands is the fruit of the national conference Collections : development, history, lost heritage [...]. Starting from an assumption that research into the history of collections of Polish museum institutions should not concentrate solely on the cataloguing of the current holdings of the individual institutions, we organised a conference devoted to the issue of old, prewar public and private collections, which were acquired for museums before and after the Second World War. [...] Research into the history collectorship and provenance research are currently highly important directions, which are well worth pursuing. The topic seems to be inexhaustible... From the editors"--back cover

Includes bibliographical references

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