Institute archives

The archives of the Institute of Anthropology, PAS contain:

Library of Institiute of Anthropology PAS

The library of the Institute was organized in the year 1954, based on the remaining collection of the library of the Anthropological Laboratory in Warsaw and the Varsovian Science  Society, latter in 1920, transformed to the Institute of Anthropological Sciences.

The library collection contains publications from the field of anthropology, ethnography, genetics and related sciences from the range of human biology.

The library collection at the end of 2008 contained 10,234 volumes of compact printed material and 8,204 volumes of printed material.
Those are publications from the fields of anthropology, ethnography, genetics and related sciences from the range of human biology.
 
 
Collected Periodicals:

International journals:
Annals of Human Biology /Great Britain/
Current Anthropology /USA/
Journal of Biosocial Science /Great Britain/
Anthropology Today / Great Britain/
Biometrie Humaine et Anthropologie /France/
Ethnology /USA/
Bulletin of the National Science Museum. Ser. D: Anthropology /Japan/
Mitteilungen der Anthropologischen Gesellschaft /Austria/

Polish journals:
Kosmos
Przeglad Antropologiczny (presently it is named: Anthropological Review)
Studia Socjologiczne
Studia Demograficzne
Swiat Nauki
Wychowanie Fizyczne i Sport

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Museum of Man

History and collection of the Museum of Man
 
The Museum of Man was opened in 2002 in the building of Collegium Anthropologicum and is a joint venture of the Institute of Anthropology, Polish Academy of Sciences and the Department of Anthropology, the University of Wroclaw.
The collection of the Museum of Man is open for public and is used for both research and education.  The exposition includes museum pieces recovered after World War II in Lower Silesia region and the items the Warsaw Institute of Anthropological Sciences (Warsaw).  The collection was also enriched by the staff of the Department of Anthropology (University of Wroclaw) during many excavations conducted by Polish anthropologists.  Also Prof. Tadeusz Bielicki from the Institute of Anthropology of the Polish Academy of Sciences donated the skull casts of Homo habilis and Homo erectus.  
The collection also contains skeletons of non-human primates and skull casts of Hominine from the different stages of human evolution.  One attraction in the museum is the oldest Polish original Palaeolithic skull found in Siemonia (SW Poland).  It has been dated to the period of Aurignacian culture.  In the museum there is also a cast of occipital part of the skull from the Mesolithic age, found in Janislawice (Central Poland).  The museum also possesses the Egyptian mummy of a young female from XXV-XXXI Dynasty (713-332 BC) and two mummified human heads.  One of the heads comes from the island of the South Pacific ocean and was dried out on by fire.  The second head comes from Crete and is covered with a bituminous mass.
The collection of Museum of Man occupied three rooms, each dedicated to different discipline of physical anthropology: 
1. human evolution and human morphological diversity, 
2. human taphonomy showing burial ceremonials from different cultures and historical periods,
3. changes of skull bones in human ontogeny and osteopathology.
 
To learn more about the collection, come and visit our Museum.
We invite everybody to visit our Museum.
Address: Wroclaw, Kuznicza 35
Opening hours:
Tuesday                      08.30 a.m. – 11.30 a.m.
Wednesday                 12:00 p.m. – 03:00 p.m.
Thursday                    09:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Friday                         08:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
 
The Museum of Man is closed 13-31 July!
4-31 August opening hours : 10:00 p.m. - 13:00 p.m.

Skeletal collection

The Institute of Anthropology, Polish Academy of Sciences has rich and unique osteological collection mainly from Poland.  Part of collection was donated by the now non-existent Institute of Anthropological Sciences in Warsaw.  Also bones from Ukraine, Africa and Asia form a part of collection.  The skeletal collection is dated from the Neolithic time until the 20th century, but most of the pieces are from the Medieval era.  The collection suffered from massive flood of 1997.  In the years 2005-2006 thanks to the generous financial support of the Foundation for Polish Science, the collection was preserved and organized.