The best interests of private museums - reflections

Abstract

This text is the result of the research ‘Private museums, local collections. The study of a new
cultural spectrum’ carried out in the kujawsko-pomorskie and mazowieckie voivodeships
in 2012 and ‘Social museums, local collections. The dynamic of changes in cultural landscape’ carried out in 2013 in the whole area of Poland.
The article provides the research and interpretation reflections on an increasing number
of private museums in Poland that have been set up recently by art collectors or as a businesses or as a result of social needs. The text deals with the sources of this museum boom
in Poland and collector’s phenomenon which creates these open to the public places.
It presents the analysis of the collections of the museums as well as their creators – owners
of private museums who save in their collections the past, works of art often excluded from
public museum.