<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The article presents an analysis of the interventions carried out as part of the revitalisation of the complex of tenement houses on Strona Dekerta Starego Miasta na Rynku (Dekert’s Side of the Old Town Market Square) in Warsaw. The design works in question took place between 2014 and 2017, resulting in the reconstruction of the Museum of Warsaw and the adaption of its space to the current needs. The article describes the conservation activities undertaken in the tenement houses over the last one hundred years, the main focus being put on the conditions, project process and final outcome of the revitalisation. As highlighted by the author, the most recent interventions in the Museum of Warsaw’s tenement houses were completed with awareness of the object’s great historic value as an important component of the Old Town inscribed in the UNESCO World Heritage List. They are an example of typically Polish conservation interventions and a specific attitude towards architectural monuments, which were in great part lost by Poland as a result of warfare.</p></abstract>

The article presents an analysis of the interventions carried out as part of the revitalisation of the complex of tenement houses on Strona Dekerta Starego Miasta na Rynku (Dekert’s Side of the Old Town Market Square) in Warsaw. The design works in question took place between 2014 and 2017, resulting in the reconstruction of the Museum of Warsaw and the adaption of its space to the current needs. The article describes the conservation activities undertaken in the tenement houses over the last one hundred years, the main focus being put on the conditions, project process and final outcome of the revitalisation. As highlighted by the author, the most recent interventions in the Museum of Warsaw’s tenement houses were completed with awareness of the object’s great historic value as an important component of the Old Town inscribed in the UNESCO World Heritage List. They are an example of typically Polish conservation interventions and a specific attitude towards architectural monuments, which were in great part lost by Poland as a result of warfare.

The reconstruction of the Museum of Warsaw – current architectural interventions in a monument of great significance for the history of conservation in Poland

Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Krakow University

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The article presents an analysis of the interventions carried out as part of the revitalisation of the complex of tenement houses on Strona Dekerta Starego...

The reconstruction of the Museum of Warsaw – current architectural interventions in a monument of great significance for the history of conservation in Poland

Published Online: Sep 19, 2020

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Received: Mar 31, 2020

Accepted: Sep 11, 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.37705/TechTrans/e2020029

Keywords
theory of monument conservation, protection of monuments, museum design

© 2020 Jerzy Wowczak, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

The reconstruction of the Museum of Warsaw – current architectural interventions in a monument of great significance for the history of conservation in Poland

Published Online: Sep 19, 2020

Page range: -

Received: Mar 31, 2020

Accepted: Sep 11, 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.37705/TechTrans/e2020029

Keywordstheory of monument conservation, protection of monuments, museum design

© 2020 Jerzy Wowczak, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Keywords
theory of monument conservation, protection of monuments, museum design