The Mazovian Museum is one of the oldest in Poland, having been established in 1821. Particularly noteworthy is Poland's richest department of Art Nouveau: painting, graphics, shThe museum's departments are: wood, sculpture and applied art from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Other departments of the museum are: history department, archaeology department, numismatics department, ethnography department. The museum was created from the merger of the collections of the Plock Scientific Society and the Provincial School, one of the oldest existing institutions of its kind in Poland. The first exhibition was shown in two rooms of Malachowianka. From 1912 to 1971, the museum occupied the buildings of the Plock Scientific Society. In 1967, the first museum presentation of Art Nouveau art in Poland was organized, and now has the largest collection of Art Nouveau art in Poland. Since 2005 it has been housed in new premises - in a beautiful, restored tenement house at 8 Tumska Street in the Old Town. The museum has its ethnographic department in a granary on the Vistula River in Plock, which has been adapted for the museum.
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