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Collegium Maius (Kraków) | university, museum, monument, Gothic (architecture), Brick Gothic (architecture)

Poland / Malopolskie / Krakow / Kraków / ul. Jagiellońska, 15
 university, museum, monument, Gothic (architecture), Brick Gothic (architecture)

Collegium Maius is the oldest university college in Poland.
Since 1400 it has housed the Academia Cracoviensis, today known as the Jagellonian University. Since c. 1860 it was also a home to the extensive book collection of the Jagellonian University Library.
The history of the Collegium Maius begins with the 1400, when the building belonging to the Pechercz Family was purchased for the University by King Wladislaw II Jagello. The actual walls of the Pecherz house have been preserved in their foundations and on the side over-looking Jagiellonska Street.
Durring the 15th century Collegium Maius was extended, pourchasing the houses contiguous to the College and combining them into a harmonious whole, complete with a coutyard enclosed with a ring of arcades, interrupted with the professors' stairscase, leading up to the first floor balconies.
In the first half of 16th century the Library Hall with Gothic vaults was erected and contiguous to the main building from the south.
The first Floor housed the Library, the Common Room, Treasury and the Assambly Hall. The remaining rooms served as living quarters for the University professors.
The Neo-Gothic reconstruction in the years 1840-1870 transformed the biulding into the University Library, which used it up to 1940. Between 1949-1964 the building underwent major refurbishment and conservation.
Collegium Maius became the Jagellonian University Museum, comprising the collections of Jagellonian University, including the collection of the old scientific instruments.
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Coordinates:   50°3'42"N   19°56'1"E
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