DZIAŁALNOŚĆ KOLEKCJONERSKA JULIUSZA ZBOROWSKIEGO NA RZECZ MUZEUM TATRZAŃSKIEGO W KONTEKŚCIE PLEBISCYTU SPISKO-ORAWSKIEGO
JULIUSZ ZBOROWSKI’S COLLECTING ACTIVITY FOR THE TATRA MUSEUM IN THE CONTEXT OF THE SPIŠ-ORAVA PLEBISCITE

Summary/Abstract: Juliusz Zborowski, a graduate of Polish Philology at the Jagiellonian University, moved to Podhale in 1913, as he started working as a teacher in a ju- nior high school in Nowy Targ. The historical events of those years, related to the establishment of new borders of the Second Polish Republic, made him engaged in activities for the protection of cultural heritage in the disputed areas of Spisz and Orawa. He was a member of the Main Plebiscite Committee of Spisz-Orawa, then the head of its press section of Gazeta Podhalańska (1919–1920), from 1918 a member of the Tatra Society, and in 1922 he became the first director of the Tatra Museum. In 1920, the Main Plebiscite Committee was liquidated, and the money collected for its activities was allocated to the purchase of ethnographic artefacts from the so-called southern borderlands of the Second Polish Republic. Zborowski started sourcing them for the museum. As a result, over two hundred examples of paintings painted on glass and colored ceramics as well as numer- ous objects from private collectors enriched the collections of the Tatra Museum.

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