Audiovisual Archives

The Faculty of Art Studies’ Audiovisual Archive is a research unit established to collect, catalogue and share the following resources

I. the Institute of Art History’s photo library

II. the Institute of Art History’s archive

III. the Institute of Musicology’s phonographic collection

The Photo Library dates back to 1903 and is a collection of over 140,000 reproductions ranging from early 20th century glass diapositives, prints, negatives and postcards, to colour slides that are currently organized and catalogued.

The Archive of the Institute of Art History holds documents from the Seminar on Art History at the University of Poznań, the German Institute of Art History of the “Reichsuniversität Posen” and the postwar Institute of Art History at AMU. The resources also include the inherited work of AMU employees, Prof. A. Karłowska-Kamzowa, Prof. E. Iwanoyko, Dr Z. Białłowicz-Krygierowa, Prof. G. Chmarzyński, Prof. Z. Kępiński and Prof. P. Piotrowski.

The Audiovisual Archive will eventually be supplemented with the phonographic collection from the Institute of Musicology containing phonographic documentation of thirty ethnomusicological field trips taking place in the years 1976 - 2006.

In 2021, as a result of participation in the project "Digital research infrastructure for humanities and art sciences DARIAH-PL", financed from the European Funds in the "Smart Development" programme, we began to organize and catalogue our oldest resources, preparing them for online release.

Audiovisual Archives
Al. Niepodległości 4
61-874 Poznań
e-mail: aawnos@amu.edu.pl
phone: +48 61 829 3724