Wednesday 12 February 2014

The Regional Muzeum



The Regional Muzeum in Łuków is hausted in Szaniawski convent school which was founded by Bishop of Kraków in 1732. The building is one of the few historic bulidings in the town. The department of ethnography has a lot of tasks to do, for example collecting, storing and developing collections int the field of culture and folk Art: sculpture, weaving and weaving machines, folk painting, equipment of agriculture and other exhibits which are connected with folk culture of the region and researching with educational actvities of folk culture. From the fauna preserved in the deposits of the Jurassic ice floe there is a majority of marine invertebrates (dating back 160 million years), in particular ammonities, belemnites, bivalves and snails. These exhibits are very well preserved. The museum collections feature 97 exhibits of these fossils.






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