Negatywy dawnego Heimatmuseum Westpreussen in Marienwerder w zbiorach Muzeum w Kwidzynie
Negatives of the Former Heimatmuseum Westpreussen in Marienweder in the Collection of the Kwidzyń Museum

Summary/Abstract: The article is composed of two parts. Part 1: Museum Tradition of Kwidzyń recreates the history of the museum that was established in three stages: initially in 1879 to decay and disperse by the end of the 1880s; and later in 1925 as Heimatmuseum Westpreussen in Marienwender to end together with World War II, and finally as the Museum in Kwidzyń in 1949. The majority of the exhibits have been preserved, just as the majority of photographic negatives. Part 2: Profile of the Kwidzyń Heimatmuseum Negatives deals with the topics of the photographs which come from the second half of the 1920s. and from the 1930s. authored by the then director of the institution Waldemar Heym (1883-1967) who developed and printed his photographs at the local photographer’s shop of Franz Gnodt (fig. 12, 31). They record views of different localities in the region with their architecture and details of this architecture (fig. 14-17, 21-22), homes of the Junker families (fig. 18-20), Kwidzyń itself (fig. 23-25, 16), cemeteries and sepulchral monuments (fig. 26-27), ethnographic monuments (fig. 28-30, 32), shrines and crosses (fig. 34), as well as ample comparative material. The negatives which contain the above topics are currently being catalogued and prepared for display.

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