Manuscripts Department – Literary Museum
tel. (+ 48) 91 48 19 175
e-mail: rekopisy@ksiaznica.szczecin.pl
During redecoration of the building at Dworcowa Street, special collections can be accessed on different terms than previously. All information can be obtained from a librarian from the Special Collection Department on duty at the Information Centre.
Monday – Thursday 9.00 - 19.00
Friday 9.00 – 15.00
Manuscript collection consists of about 3 200 items, among them post-war acquisitions and old resource manuscripts taken over in 1945 from the former Stadtbücherei.
The oldest manuscripts originate from the collections of former church and school libraries, Szczecin societies and institutions. Among them the most valuable items include late-medieval codes, diplomas issued by Pomeranian Dukes office, register of students of Szczecin Duke's Teachers’ College (szczecińskie Pedagogium Książęce) maintained from the 17th to the 19th century, and the Pomeranian Biographical Archive, dating back to 1918, containing photographs and materials about eminent figures of the town and the region. It includes archives of such figures as Johann Georg Karl Lange, Hans Kugler, Carl Ludwig Schleich, Carl August and Heinrich Dohrn. Creative archives of Szczecin writers and significant painters constitute the most numerous post-war acquisitions. The beginnings of Szczecin literary life are illustrated by some of the archives of Maria Kurecka, Witold Wirpsza and the first president of Szczecin, Piotr Zaremba.
Contemporary cimelia comprise a set of letters written by Stanisław I. Witkiewicz to his wife from 1923-1939, the archive of Jadwiga Witkiewicz, and a rich archive of Xawery Dunikowski - an artist, sculptor.
The Department offers a rich and valuable collection of letters, among them a letter from Sigismund II Vasa’s office from 1604, correspondence of Stanisław August Poniatowski, Tadeusz Kościuszko and famous writers: Józef Ignacy Kraszewski, Ignacy Krasicki, Maria Konopnicka, Maria Rodziewiczówna, Kazimiera Iłłakowiczówna, Maria Dąbrowska, Edward Stachura.
A 3 thousand volumes strong library, once the property of Maria and Stefan Flukowski, is the most precious of all private book collections. In the 1990’s and at the beginning of the 21st century, Literary Museum acquired book collections of Zbigniew Herbert, Andrzej Kuśniewicz and Ludmiła Marjańska.
Stefan Flukowski Room - Literary Museum has been operating at the Manuscripts Department since 1977. The contribution of the writer’s wife allowed for partial reconstruction of Stefan Flukowski’s room – a poet and prosaist, playwright and translator, co-founder of a literary group called “Kwadryga”. Visitors to the Room can see the poet’s book collection, his personal mementoes, pieces of furniture, sculptures, porcelain, Kashubian ceramist collection, graphics and pictures from the Warsaw flat of the Flukowscy.
Stefan Flukowski Room serves the function of both a museum room and a literary salon. It is a venue numerous artistic events and exhibitions devoted to the literary culture of West Pomerania, among them book promotions and jubilee celebrations.