Photo Collections

The museum has nearly 40,000 photographs of original and reproduction, and postcards and negatives about topics related to the body, social life, political and economic city and its inhabitants. The largest part of the collection are objects related to the construction and expansion of the port in the interwar period, photographs and postcards from the period of occupation and setting out the war damage in 1945. The team an interesting 873 negatives (including glass-236) by the famous photographer Henri Poddębski, showing the harbor and city in the 30s Twentieth century. The Museum also has a large collection of 602 negatives and original photographs of about 280 well-known photographers Boleslawa and Edmund Zdanowski. They are both post-war works, and how pre-war Vilna stage of their artistic work. A considerable portion of the collection is about 3 thousand postcards depicting the city and the port (mainly before 1939). Orlowo at different times (about 150 pieces, including 40 made before 1918), and the city during the occupation. The collection is a set (about 4 thousand pcs.) German cards with photographs of Gdynia keeping buildings from World War II.

Documents

This collection is made up of about 9,000 companies of various documents, offices, institutions, schools, associations and organizations operating in today's Gdynia - a city and port (such as payroll, correspondence, minutes of meetings, newspapers, classrooms, agreements, certificates of employment ) and personal documents Gdynia residents associated with their social life, political, religious and economic (including identity cards, membership cards, nautical books, military, family and scouts, diplomas, school certificates, food stamps, correspondence, passes, invitations , tickets, advertising, leaflets). Particularly noteworthy memorabilia Eng. Tadeusz Wenda, builder of the port of Gdynia and the Professor. Eugene Kwiatkowski, called the godfather of Gdynia.

Maps and plans

The collection consists of more than 700 cartographic maps and plans. Much of the harvest, due to the nature museum, concerns Gdynia and its environs. The plans represent the whole city or its fragments, but there are also individual building projects. An impressive collection of maps of the port of Gdynia and objects associated with it. The oldest map, bearing the name of Gdynia - Dingen called here - comes from 1655, the latest in the collections of the city plan was issued in 1989 set up both originals and copies.

Posters

The museum collects posters, movie and notice documenting the cultural, political and social residents of the city of Gdynia since the inception of the present day. Most collection relates to the 70s and 80 The great twentieth century, constitute a separate group of film posters, mainly movie posters presented at the Polish Film Festival in Gdynia. Overall the set has more than 1850 pieces.

Artefacts

The collection of exhibits, generally referred to as objects of material culture, is approximately 3,000 objects. It is composed of very different items, ranging from the proverbial pins and ending large-scale complex equipment. The core of the set up various kinds of furniture (kitchen and bedroom) and household items (dishes, cutlery, kitchen equipment). Also accumulated a large collection of clothing (mostly women), linen, tablecloths and napkins (woven, embroidered and crocheted). Noteworthy is a collection of merchant navy uniforms, navy and land forces, including the merchant navy officer's uniform around 1939, battle-dress of 1943, the 1st Armored Division soldier, Gen. S. Maczek and 4 officers LWP uniforms from the turn of the 40s and 50 Twentieth century

Art collections

Paintings, graphics, graphic stencils

Represent a collection of nearly 2,000 objects, including about 2,800 gathered in the Art Department. An overwhelming amount of work involved in the collection comes from the twentieth century. Their subjects, mostly realistic, focuses on the city and the sea. The collection includes the work of dozens of pre-war and contemporary artists, including the most famous Polish Marine Artists - Marian Mokwa and Anthony Suchanek. Distinguished legacy, which the Museum received after the death of Maximilian Kasprowicz. It consists of paintings, drawings, prints and various art projects. Large for groups of objects are the work of artists associated with our town: Katzer Stanislaus, Stanislaus Rolicz (gifts of families), Brest and John Mary Brzeski and Mary Zablocki.

Medals

The vast majority of the nearly 800 medals have been produced in the last century. Their diverse subject matter makes an interesting and important historical source. A large part of the collection are the medals issued by each company having its registered office in Gdynia, mostly operating in the maritime and other, associated with rich, vibrant city. In addition to typical Gdynia medals in the collection of medals are also related to the Tri-City and the coastal region, and objects of historical themes.

Fabrics

The Museum is located in dispute (21 pieces) collection of contemporary tapestry artists and Gdynia about 130 miniature weaving, donated by members of the International Baltic Triennial of Miniature Textiles, which regularly takes place in Gdynia.

Sculptures

The museum has a collection of sculptures, consisting of 11 objects, among which stand out the work of renowned sculptor Irena Loroch.

Library

The library has publications on Polish history, with particular emphasis on the period of the Second Republic, when there was a Gdynia city and port, and all publications which have appeared in Gdynia on the ancient and modern. These reports allow you to trace the development of the city on the background of history and culture of Polish and Pomeranian. The collected books are more than 9,000 volumes - monographs, journals and unpublished materials. In addition to crop closely related to the history of the city, the library also has a number of publications needed to draw to illustrate the history of objects that are stored in Documentation Department of the History of the City and Port and Arts Department.