The Archdiocesan Museum in Gniezno was erected in 1989 by the then Bishop of Gniezno, Cardinal Glemp. The first director, curator and organizer of the zbiors was Boleslaw Dzierwa. The museum was opened in 1991, and initially the collections were presented in the treasury of Gniezno Cathedral. However, they were soon moved to a specially adapted building located next to the Cathedral on Lech Hill. The Museum's collection includes relics of sacred art belonging to the Gniezno archdiocese often transferred from other places (such as the collegiate church in Kruszwica and Trzemeszno). Among the most valuable exhibits of the Museum are: * St. Adalbert's chalice - an agate chalice from the 10th century in a gold setting from the turn of the 12th and 13th centuries * Dabrowka chalice (I Dabrowka chalice)- made around 1170 * Royal chalice (II Dabrowka chalice) - a gift of Mieszko III the Old to the Gniezno archcathedral , made around 1190, comes from Trzemeszno * Mourning from Gościeszyn - a sculpture from around 1420. * The Dormition of the Blessed Virgin Mary - a 14th-century wooden bas-relief from the church in Liszków The museum also takes care of the cathedral treasury, which, next to the Wawel Treasury, is among those with the most valuable and unique monuments of sacred Romanesque and Gothic art, as well as the monuments of the cathedral itself, which include the Gniezno Doors.
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