Besides a collection of 19th- and 20th-century Polish and European photographs, the National Museum in Warsaw also holds interesting examples of Polish reporting photography from World War I by Stanisław Nofok-Sowiński, Marian Fuks, and Wacław Saryusz-Wolski. It also posesses works from the Warsaw Photographic Agency and from the inter-war period, as well as photographic documentation of World War II (Dr Hans-Joachim Gerke). From the post-war years, its most notable holdings include the collection of photographs shown as the post-competition exhibition entitled ‘Peace Victorious’ in 1949: a summary of the state of Polish photography on the eve of the imposition of social realism. In recent years, the collection of Polish press photographs has been enriched with the photographic archives of the Świat weekly, spanning the 1951–1969 years.

This collection is part of the Iconography and Photography collection which, in its turn, is part of the study Collection and therefore mainly meant for research.

Director of institute is Ferdynand B. Ruszczyc
Contact person is Danuta Jackiewicz, Curator Iconographic and Photographic Collection. You can reach her at +48 (0)226211031, ext. 264