The Museum of King Jan III’s Palace at Wilanów was the institution that originally – during the 16th ICTA in Ankara, 2019 – offered its venue to organize ICTA.
The Museum of King Jan III’s Palace at Wilanów is one of the most important leading museum institutions in Poland. Its mission is related to the historical and symbolic values represented by the Wilanów Palace – which was the residence of King Jan III Sobieski, and from 1805 one of the first public museums in Poland, founded by Count Stanisław Kostka Potocki (the initiator of the University of Warsaw in 1818 too). The Baroque splendour of this royal residence is in rooted in the epoch of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and its culture, shaped between the Black and Baltic Seas, in the neighbourhood of the Muslim Orient and Latin Europe.
The Museum of King Jan III’s Palace in Wilanów is a member of the Network of European Royal Residences, consisting of institutions in charge of the most prestigious palace museums in Europe.
