Poster Museum at Wilanów

The Poster Museum (Polish: Muzeum Plakatu) in Wilanów is the world's oldest poster museum. Founded in 1968, the museum is housed at the Wilanów Palace complex in Warsaw, Poland. History The Poster Museum located in Wilanów is part of the National Museum in Warsaw. It was established through a grant of several thousand posters belonging to the National Museum, made by the museum's director, Stanisław Lorentz. The Poster Museum opened in June 1968, becoming the world's first museum dedicated to this art form. At its founding, the museum had 13,000 items in its collection, including around 500 posters preserved from the World War II era. Its collection is continually growing, through gifts from Polish and international donors. During the mid-20th century, Polish. Collections More than 55,000 posters are in the collections of the Poster Museum at Wilanów. 30,000 items represent the history of poster art in Poland from 1892 to 2002. The Poster Museum houses one of the world's largest collections of posters. The museum rotates its collection through permanent exhibits on Polish poster art and history, foreign poster art, and thematic exhibits. Poster for the Hygienic Exhibition in Lublin by Konstanty Kietlicz-Rayski from 1908 Polish-Palestinian Line by Zygmunt Glinicki Hermanns & Froitzheim by Julius Klinger