Collection demonstrating the independence efforts of the 18th and 19th century

The oldest museum pieces come from 1794. These are Responses and Regulations of the Cracow Voivodship Board. The history of the November Uprising 1830 present elusive copies e.g. Manifest of Tsar Nicholas I "To Polish Nation", Parliamentary Manifest of 20 December 1830 and Responses from the National Government. In those arts collection you can find several works concerning the occurrences and figures from the 18th and 19th century. A very graphic, rich collection on Kościuszko and Napoleon era is available. An important section is the one demonstrating portraits of participants of the November Uprising, including commanders. We do also have several post cards showing reproductions of drawings made by Z. Rozwadowski, presenting the soldier's uniform from the Duchy of Warsaw.


Unknown author, January Suchodolski,Tadeusz Kościuszko,
undated sangwina pastel


Pożegnanie przed pójściem na wojnę 1809 - 1812 (Saying goodbye before going to war 1809-1812), undated, oil linen.


Jan Styka, Bem in Transylvania, a fragment of the panorama [1897], oil linen.


Manifasto of Jan Henryk Dąbrowski and Józef Wybicki, 1806



The Museum has collected many showpieces connected with the January Uprising 1863 - 1864. Very interesting is the group of souvenirs consisting of 97 elements e.g. patriotic jewellery the so called black jewellery being used during patriotic manifests and national mourning: crosses, armbands, brooches, necklaces, rings, pendants and medals commemorating the anniversary of the Uprising from 1863 and other important facts. The collection of the iconography from the January Uprising is also very rich. You can find there 500 pieces. The iconography presents effigy of people taking part in the battle, commanders, manifest participants and Siberian deportees. In that department there are also many post cards - reproductions of paintings and graphics concerning the Uprising. There is also a collection of 54 drawings made by a deportee - father Leopold Zgodziński in 1864 - 1866.
The Permanent Exhibition in the Museum of Pavilion X in Warsaw Citadel has 124-piece work by Aleksander Sochaczewski - called "Malarze syberyjskiej kategorii" (Siberian category painters). These paintings have been given to us by the Museum o History in Warsaw, and are the source of knowledge about the deportees, January Uprising participants who were exiled to Siberia.


A group of insurgents 1863, photograph




Patriotic jewellery: cross and Armand



Antoni Kozakiewicz, three generations 1864, oil linen


Jacek Malczewski, Sybirak, undated, oil cardboard

The museum has a huge collection connected with the January Uprising.


Aleksander Sochaczewski, prisoners at work, undated, coal linen


Aleksander Sochaczewski, Goodbye Europe, undated, oil linen