Museum of Industry and Agriculture

Among its notable co-founders were philanthropists count Feliks Sobański, Józef Zamoyski, Karol Dittrich and Hipolit Wawelberg, the Polish-Jewish banker.

It contained archives of the history of Polish industry, agriculture and crafts.

[2] It ran temporary exhibitions and opened permanently to the public in 1905 but was destroyed in 1939 during World War II.

It housed a physics laboratory run by Józef Boguski where the future double Nobel laureate, Marie Curie, began her scientific career in 1890–91.

[3] After World War II, the work of the Museum was divided among three other institutions:

Museum of Industry and Agriculture, on Warsaw's Krakowskie Przedmieście