Muzeum Okręgowe w Rzeszowie

The District Museum in Rzeszów is (along with its branches) a multi-unit institution housed in the historic 17th-century Pasha edifice on 3 Maja Street. The former monastery complex consists of a former male school of the Piarist Order (currently the First High School). Center of the architectural complex is occupied by the parish church of p.w. St. Cross with beautiful interior design. In the temple survived, among others. Stucco from 1656-1657, made by John the Baptist Falconi. The next building in the ensemble is the former monastery - since 1953 the Main Building of the Regional Museum in Rzeszow. This building was a Piarist place to censure the convent (in 1786) made by Austrians after the first partition of Poland. Founded in 1935, the museum was in the 1930s a social institution and it was located in a tenement house in the Market Square in 1940. At that time acquired museums referred to the local profile. After 1945 the institution functioned as the Museum of the City of Rzeszow, and since 1951 under the name of the District Museum in Rzeszow. After the Second World War, the city developed and at the same time our institution. In the early 1950s the Sapporo monastery was dedicated to the permanent headquarters of the Museum, where we continue to operate today. In the post-war period, ethnographic collections were intensively intensified, which were acquired professionally and the department was one of the leading. As a result of the dynamic development of the entire institution, a number of museums have been added, and their successors are pursuing new and important projects.