Museum

The Sopot Museum was founded in 2001 by the Council of the City of Sopot within the celebrations of the Centenary of the City of Sopot. The historic villa, built by Ernst August Claaszen, a Gdansk merchant, in 1903, became the seat of the Museum. It was thoroughly renovated in the fall of 2001. The original state of the building with regard to its new museum functions was restored within the works that took place in 2001-2006. The representational rooms at the ground floor present the permanent collection of the historic interiors, recreated in the basis of archival photographs handed to the museum by the daughter of the first owner of the villa, Ruth Koch nee Claaszen in 2001-2003. Current exhibitions are presented in old bedrooms on the first floor; offices and workshops are located in the attic. The old villa basement is now a restaurant. There is an elevator installed for the disabled. The works also included a revitalization of the vast garden around the villa and reconstruction of the historic fencing. The Sopot Museum – located just a few meters from the beach in the area extremely attractive to tourists – is a place eagerly visited by the visitors and inhabitants of Sopot and the Tri-City.

 

The Prof. Jerzy Stankiewicz Award

dyplomThe manager of the Sopot Museum - Ms. Małgorzata Buchholz-Todoroska, and her team were awarded the Prof. Jerzy Stankiewicz Prize for organizing and publishing the Paul Puchmueller [1874-1945] The Architect That Transformed Sopot Into A City exhibition and catalogue. The Prize was awarded on October 1, 2009 during a ceremony held in the Sopot Museum by the Gdansk departments of the Heritage Conservators‘ Society, the Art Historians‘ Society, and the ZPAP Conservators of Art Works Department.

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The SYBILLA 2008 Museum Event of the Year Contest

The Sopot Museum was awarded two prizes by the Jury of the SYBILLA 2008 Museum Event of the Year Contest. The prizes were handed over by Bogdan Zdrojewski, the Minister of National Culture and Heritage during the ceremony held in the Royal Castle in Warsaw on the 18th of May 2009. The first place was awarded in the category of historical and biographical exhibitions for the organization of the „Józefa Wnukowa 1911-2000. The Creators and Founders of the Sopot School“ exhibition and the third place was awarded in the category of technical exhibitions for the organization of the ‚Paul Puchmüller. The Architect that Turned Sopot Into a City.‘

The exhibition of the works of Professor Wnukowa was organized in cooperation with the Art Academy in Gdansk and the National Art Gallery in Sopot. It was the first monographic exhibition of the famous Professor who was closely related to our city and the region almost throughout Her whole life. The exhibition about the first city architect of Sopot [co-financed by the Polish-German Cooperation Fund] was the third exhibition from the series of exhibitions presenting the Sopot architects of the turn of the 20th century.

Winning those two Sybilla 2008 awards means the world to our museum. Quoting the organizers of the contest: „winning an award in the Contest is the highlighting of the highest rank of the museum establishment on the cultural map of the country.‘ It is a celebration for Sopot and its museum!

   

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