Introduction

Abstract

Apart from the typical museum publications such as collections and exhibition catalogues, it is essential that the National Museum in Warsaw (NMW) put out a regular periodical to show-case the research and documentation conducted by its staf, many of whom are distinguished experts with rare specialties. The large size of our collections and their broad thematic, temporal and geographic range make the museum a superb workshop for these specialists. It is thus all the more important to give them an opportunity to disseminate the outcomes of their work as theses, notices and reports and to launch them on the international academic circuit. Like other prominent museums, for many years NMW had its own periodicals, Rocznik Muzeum Narodowego w Warszawie / Annuaire du Musée National de Varsovie [Journal of the National Museum in Warsaw] and Bulletin du Musée National de Varsovie. Terminating them disrupted our relations with other museums and diminished our rank as a research institution that makes a signifcant contribution to the world museum community. In this 150th anniversary year, we have resolved to bring back one of our museum’s best traditions.