Zagadnienie wrocławskich muzeów i ich zbiorów w przemowach delegatów Związku Muzeów w Polsce i przedstawicieli Ministerstwa Kultury i Sztuki w 1946 r.

The paper examines the situation of Wrocław’s museums and their collections in 1946 in the context of post-war political and administrative changes. As part of the so-called Recovered Territories, Wrocław underwent a process of museum reorganisation, discussed at the fora of the Museum Association in Poland and the Ministry of Culture and Art. The study outlines the history of Wrocław’s German museums before 1939, their fate during the World War II, and the post-war processes of restitution and redistribution of collections. In 1946, Polish museologists and government officials debated the future of museum policy in the newly integrated western and northern territories. Key proposals included the establishment of a central multi-departmental museum in Wrocław, the expansion of historical and ethnographic departments, and the incorporation of collections from Lviv. Speeches by Stanisław Lorentz, Witold Kieszkowski and other experts underscored the strategic importance of museums in the process of the Polonisation of Lower Silesia. The conclusions of these deliberations contributed to the establishment of the State Museum in Wrocław in 1947 and shaped the development of cultural policy in the People’s Republic of Poland.