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SOUTHWEST ASIA

The Museum’s stock of artefacts from Southwest Asia, traditionally known as the Middle East, embraces objects hailing from Syria, Lebanon, Iran, Turkey, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen. The relatively small collection comprises less than 600 exhibits, yet is very varied. It includes many ancient objects that are proof of the region’s millennia-long cultural and ethnic diversity, while
others show influences of Islam, which originated in the Arab Peninsula in the 7th century and became a powerful culture-making force. The better part of the Southwest Asia collection was gifted to the Museum by Wawrzyniec and Brigitta Węclewicz. Mr Węclewicz had been born in 1910 to Polish parents living in Berlin. In 1945 he moved to Sweden, where he married Brigitta Berglöf and amassed a diverse art collection together with his wife. Although he had never lived in Poland, Mr Węclewicz felt a strong connection with his parents’ homeland and gifted most of his possessions to Polish museums, including the Asia and Pacific Museum in Warsaw (Palestinian costumes, chibouk pipe bowls dating back to the Ottoman Empire, vessels and coins among others).
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