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On 27th October 1952, the Sport Museum was established. It resembles the history of Polish sport and Olympic ideas, conducts education, has rich photographic collections and a library.
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Sport & Tourism Museum in Warsaw is unique on a national scale and one of the oldest museums of its kind in Europe. For 70 years, it has been documenting the achievements of Polish athletes and collecting material souvenirs related to sport and Olympics, and since 1961 also with tourism.
In October 2022, 70 years have passed since the establishment of a museum in Warsaw, which deals with the biggest social phenomenon of the 20th century – sport. For many years, it has been working in the structures of the Main Committee of Physical Culture (equivalent of today’s Ministry of Sport and Tourism). Since 1 January 1999, in connection with the administrative reform of the state, the Self-Government of the Mazowieckie Voivodship became the so-called founding body.
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The creators of the Museum tried to set up it as the Pantheon of Polish Sport, based on the experiences of the National Museum in Warsaw. They were modelled after and learnt from the best. From very modest accommodation conditions, one room with one full-time employee and several dozen exhibits, the institution has come a difficult and long way to a comprehensive institution, devoted to almost all sports practised in Poland, Olympics and the Polish Olympic movement, as well as sightseeing and tourism. It is currently a cultural institution with an important position in the ranking of world sports museums. The Museum conducts exhibition, publishing, scientific and research and educational activities.
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Read more… (click to go to Polish Digital Equestrian Library)
Author: Marzena Jaworska – Sport & Tourism Museum in Warsaw
Below you will find links to related materials in the Polish Digital Equestrian Library.
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Muzeum Sportu i Turystyki w Polskiej Cyfrowej Bibliotece Jeździeckiej
„70 lat Muzeum Sportu i Turystyki w Warszawie” (2022) – Marzena Jaworska
„Słowo o Janie Kowalczyku” (2021) – Piotr Banasiak
„Olimpijskie haute couture w MSIT” (2021) – Marta Marek
„Michał Woysym-Antoniewicz 1897-1989” (2021) – Izabela Kiełmińska
„Na medal nigdy nie jest za późno” (2019) – Cezary Cybulski
„Historia PKOL do 1939 roku w pigułce” (2019) – Piotr Walewski
„Kolekcja medali olimpijskich…” (2017) – Zespół redakcyjny
„Trofea Michała Antoniewicza” (2009)
„Kultura fizyczna w zbiorach polskich bibliotek…” (2009)
„Nowy Jork biało-czerwony. Puchar Narodów 1926” – Piotr Banasiak
Zdjęcia ze zbiorów Muzeum Sportu i Turystyki – Warszawa
Related articles:
Kazimierz Gzowski
A cavalry captain. 15th Regiment of Uhlans of Poznań. A silver medallist of Olympic Games in Amsterdam 1928 in show jumping on Mylord.
Michał Woysym-Antoniewicz
A major of Polish Army cavalry, the first Polish Olympic multimedallist in horsemanship. Silver and bronze medal at Olympic Games in Amsterdam 1928.
Seweryn Kulesza
Major of Polish Army, a cavalryman and one of the most talented riders of thirties in Poland, a silver Olympic medallist at the Team Three Days’ Event in Berlin (1936).
Zdzisław Kawecki
A silver medallist of Olympic Games in Berlin 1936 (on Bambino). A knight of Polish Cross of Valour. The 7th Regiment of Mounted Riflemen of Great Poland. Murdered in Katyn.
Henryk Leliwa-Roycewicz
A soldier. A rider. A trainer. Participant of Warsaw Uprising. Kiliński’s Battalion Commander that rushed the building of PAST (Polish Telephone Joint-stock Company).
Kazimierz Szosland
Major of Polish Army, a leading Polish rider in the period 1923-1935, an Olympian (Olympic Games in Paris 1924 and Olympic Games in Amsterdam 1928 – a silver medal).
Gallery:
The materials have been published through the good politeness of Sport & Tourism Museum in Warsaw.
The obverse and reverse of Jan Kowalczyk’s gold medal. 
The obverse and reverse of Jan Kowalczyk’s silver medal. 
Obverse and reverse of Michał Woysym-Antoniewicz’s silver medal. 
Obverse and reverse of Michał Woysym-Antoniewicz’s bronze medal. 
Award for winning the Nations Cup for the Polish team, New York 1926. 
The Cup – 1st prize for Handicap in steeple-chase, won by major Michał Toczek. / Resursa Award for Race of Great Poland / Poznań 9th October 1927. Made of silver, dated 1848. 
Ordinary riding-saddle of Italian type, 1957. 
Lt Michał Woysym Antoniewicz on “Banzaj”, 2nd Rokitniańscy Light Cavalrymen Regiment, Cavalry Training Centre in Grudziądz, 1923. 
Preparations for the International Show Jumping Event – Nations Cup in Nice – Warsaw 1925 From left: Lt. Władysław Zgorzelski on “Jaskrawy”, cavalry captain Zdzisław Dziadulski on Zefer, cavalry captain Henryk Dobrzański on Lump, Lt. Col. Karol Rómmel on Rewcliff/?/, cavalry captain Adam Królikiewicz on “Senta”, Lt. Kazimierz Szosland on „Cześnik”, Lt. Pieczyński on “Cezar”. 
Show Jumping Event at the First Pomeranian Exhibition, Grudziądz 1925. From left: Cavalry captain Michał Antoniewicz on “Jowisz” – 1st prize; cavalry captain Myzia, 10th Uhlan Regiment, on „Major” – 3rd prize. 
Cavalry captain Adam Królikiewicz and Picador over an obstacle. Nice 1925. 
Team of Polish riders in Nice 1926. From left: Major Michał Toczek, Lt. Kazimierz Szosland, colonel Juliusz Kleeberg – the military attaché in Paris /1923- 1928/, cavalry captain Zdzisław Dziadulski, colonel Sergiusz Zahorski, cavalry captain Leon Kon, cavalry captain Edmund Chojecki, cavalry captain Henryk Dobrzański, cavalry captain Adam Królikiewicz, cavalry captain Michał Antoniewicz. 
Show Jumping Events, Nice 1926, cavalry captain Michał Antoniewicz on “Banzaj”.
Show Jumping Events, Nice 1926, cavalry captain Michał Antoniewicz on „Zefer”. 
Show Jumping Events, Nice 1926, cavalry captain Michał Antoniewicz on “Jowisz”. 
Show Jumping Events, Nice 1926, cavalry captain Adam Królikiewicz on „Cezar”. 
Show Jumping Events, Nice 1926, cavalry captain Adam Królikiewicz on „Rewekliff”/?/. 
Grudziądz, Cavalry Training Centre, 1926. Sitting people, from right: Michał Toczek, Leon Kon, Edmund Chojecki. In the central row, from right: Henryk Dobrzeński, Zdzisław Zgorzelski In the third row, from right: Kazimierz Szosland, Michał Antoniewicz. 
Show Jumping Events, Rome 1926. Representation of Poland under the direction of Col. Ignacy Matuszewski and the sports manager, Col. Sergiusz Zahorski. From left: Col. Ignacy Matuszewski, cavalry captain Henryk Dobrzański /” Hubal”/, Lt. Kazimierz Szosland, cavalry captain Edmund Chojecki, Col. Sergiusz Zahorski, cavalry captain Michał Antoniewicz, cavalry captain Zdzisław Dziadulski. 
Polish Riders Team. From left: cavalry captain Adam Królikiewicz, cavalry captain Zdzisław Dziadulski, cavalry captain Michał Woysym Antoniewicz, cavalry captain Henryk Dobrzański (Hubal), cavalry captain Edmund Chojecki, Major Michał Toczek, Lt. Kazimierz Szosland, Lt. Leon Kon. 
Polish National Team at the International Official Equestrian Competitions (Nations Cup), Nice 1927 At the head, Col. Franciszek Kleeberg. From left: Lt. Col. Karol Rómmel, major Michał Toczek, Lt. Col. Kazimierz de Rostwo Suski, cavalry captain Michał Woysym Antoniewicz, cavalry captain Adam Królikiewicz, Lt. Kazimierz Szosland, Lt. Starnowski, Lt. Wilhelm Lewicki. 
International Show Jumping Event, Warsaw, Łazienki 1927. Michał Antoniewicz on Banzaj /?/ 
Silver medallists of the Olympic Games in Amsterdam in the team show jumping, 1928. From left: Lt. Kazimierz Szosland, cavalry captain Michał Woysym Antoniewicz, Lt. Kazimierz Gzowski. 
International Show Jumping Events, Warsaw 1928. The winner in the competition of Regent of Hungary, Admiral Milos Horty – cavalry captain Michał Antoniewicz on “Readglet” with the cup (gold-plated silver, height of about 50cm). This cup came to the collection of Sport & Tourism Museum in 2008. – the gift of Antoniewicz’s sons. Behind Antoniewicz, Leon Kon, on right Fryderyk Juriewicz (Director of Horse Breeding Department). 
Polish National Team at the International Official Equestrian Competitions (Nations Cup) in Nice, 1928. The cup is held by Col. Stanisław Brochowicz Lewiński. From left: Lt. Col. Karol Rómmel, cavalry captain Adam Królikiewicz, Lt. Kazimierz Szosland, Lt. Kazimierz Gzowski. 
International Official Equestrian Competitions (Nations Cup) in Riga, 1931. Michał Woysym Antoniewicz (with the prize). 
Polish riders’ team. From left: Lt. Col. Karol Rómmel, cavalry captain Adam Królikiewicz, cavalry captain Stefan Starnawski (30’s of 20th century). 
Major Michał Woysym Antoniewicz with prizes and cups (30’s of 20th century).
