LOCAL PUBLIC
LIBRARY IN RAWA MAZOWIECKA
In the Old
Polish period (from the end of the 18th century) there existed two
libraries in Rawa, one at the Jesuit's College and the other at
the Augustinian cloister. During the partition of Poland the libraries
were functioning unofficially, for example since 1892, Mrs. Żylewicz
private library was working in secrecy. In 1902 Rawa Culture Association
collected about 2000 books and offered them to readers of Agriculture
Syndicate. It was the beginning of Local Library in Rawa Mazowiecka.
In the period between the First and the Second World Wars there
were two libraries in the town: Office Workers Library, which contained
about 4000 and the second- at Polish Mother Country School. On the
10th November 1945 Local Library and Administrative District Library
were opened. In 1955 the two libraries were combined in one. In
1965 a branch for children of Local and District Library was separated.
After administrative reform the library continued its functioning
as Local Public Library in Rawa Mazowiecka. The Library contains:
1. Section of books collection and description 2. Section of offering
books and information 3. Section for children Local Public Library
in Rawa organizes frequently books exhibitions, art exhibitions,
lectures, and meetings with authors, library classes, reader's competitions,
and scientific sessions. According to its regulations the library
offers. 1. Lending books and a reading-room for adults 7 Kardynała
Wyszyńskiego St. tel. (046) 814-36-47 open Monday-Friday from 9
am-5pm and on the first and second Saturday of the month. 2. Lending
books and a reading-room from 9am-5pm and the third and fourth Saturday
of the month.
RAWA REGIONAL
MUSEUM
Rawa Regional
Museum created in 1966 is placed in a villa from 1930 built for
the director of the Agricultural Syndicate. It houses archeological,
ethnographic, historical works of art exhibits, numismatics, and
relics of the past associated with Rawa Mazowiecka and Rawa region.
The art section comprises modern painting, collection of drawing-room
furniture and little trinkets. There are also in collection's possession
Jack Frączak works, who is a graduate of Graphic Faculty in Warsaw
Academy of Fine Arts. Apart from artistic graphic Jack Frączak takes
interest in drawing, photography, graphic designing, book illustration
and art exhibiting. Jacek Frączak presented his works in Rawa Regional
Museum on two separate exhibitions in 1988 and 1997. Many of his
works are thematically connected with Rawa and the surrounding Mazovian
landscape. Ethnographic collected works, which are the broadest
part of collection, contain examples of a wide range folk culture
of the Rawa region. Emphasizing its importance chosen elements are
presented in permanent displays:"Traditional cottage room in
the Rawa region" showing the inside of a festive room with
its characteristic furnishing in time sequence 1880-1950. Exhibits
from the turn of the 20th century create the second exhibition of
a permanent character. It presents the inside of a noble house drawing-room
or middle-class house of a family senior, thus the name:" Grandma's
drawing room from the turn of the 20th century". We can find
here photographs of Rawa Mazowiecka from the beginning of the 20th
c. and of the families of neighboring manors as well as drawing
furniture, portraits and period trinkets.
