Among Zoroastrian burial items, there is a camel-shaped zoomorphic OSTADON lying there. It was found…
Apart from the material culture of Asia and Oceania, the Museum holds works by Polish artists inspired by the region.
Stanisław Poznański has an important place among these. Stanisław Poznański was born in Warsaw in 1909. After the German forces invaded Poland in 1939, Poznański stayed in Warsaw. He joined the resistance and fought in the Warsaw Uprising of 1944. After it was put down, he was imprisoned in a transit camp in Ożarów.
He was transferred twice before ending up in Oflag II-D located at Gross Born, Pomerania. In 1945 the prisoners were liberated by the Polish First Army. After the war ended, Poznański lived in Bydgoszcz for a short period of time and exhibited at the local cultural centre. He returned to Warsaw in 1946. Having retired in 1979, he remained active in the public forum. He was a member of the governing bodies of the Wit Stwosz Foundation for the Protection of Polish-German Cultural Heritage, which was established in 1990, and the Polish-German Neighbourhood Club, whose goal was to promote cultural and academic collaboration between the two nations.
More information about this can be found in the book-album "Cultural Legacy of Uzbekistan in the Museums of Poland" (volume XL) from the series "Cultural Legacy of Uzbekistan in the Collections of the World".
