Celestat
Historical Museum of Kraków Celestat | |
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| Established | 1997 |
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| Location | Kraków, Poland |
| Coordinates | 50°03′56″N 19°56′58″W / 50.06548°N 19.94933°WCoordinates: 50°03′56″N 19°56′58″W / 50.06548°N 19.94933°W Fatal error: The format of the coordinate could not be determined. Parsing failed. |
| Type | History museum |
| Manager | Małgorzata Niechaj |
| Director | Michał Niezabitowski |
| Curator | Małgorzata Niechaj |
| Public transit access | Miejskie Przedsiębiorstwo Komunikacyjne w Krakowie How to get there, see external links |
| Website | http://www.mhk.pl/branches/celestat |
Consecutive in the Marksmen Guild's history residence, traditionally called Celeste (from the German Zielstätte, English Shooting range), built in a very short time: between June and October of 1837 in Rifle Garden. The authors of the neo-Gothic construction in Kraków are Tomasz Majewski and Franciszek Lanci. The opening ceremony was held on October 15, 1837. At the turn of 1874/1875, architect Adam Nowicki, on the order of the guild, expanded Celeste. First, it became an impressive Rifle Room, and then it was the largest ballroom in Kraków. In Celeste, rifle keepsakes were collected, guests were entertained (twice Emperor Franz Joseph I, his son Archduke Rudolf, Ignacy Jan Paderewski, General Józef Haller, Marshal Józef Piłsudski, Polish presidents Stanisław Wojciechowski and Ignacy Mościcki), and most importantly, the guild's rituals, such as the election of the guild's king, were continued. The outbreak of World War II deprived the Guild of Celeste and Rifle Garden. They were seized by the Germans. Also at that time, the Germans set up a delousing station there for the soldiers returning from the eastern front. After the war, the new Polish government refused to return the property to the Marksmen Guild despite its dissolution in 1957. In 1990, the Rifle Garden and Celeste estate was finally returned to its rightful owner. By virtue of a historical agreement between the Museum of History and the rifle fellowship, a branch of the Museum of History was created in Celeste with a Kraków Marksmen Guild History exhibition, which opened on June 21, 1997, commemorating the 160th anniversary of the Garden's opening.[1]
