Expedition to the south – Oscar Almgren’s research in archaeological collections in Cracow

At the end of the 19th c., one of the most famous European archaeologists, Oscar Almgren, was writing his PhD thesis on brooches from the Northern Europe. In order to collect the materials that interested him, he travelled all over Europe, visiting museums and viewing archaeological collections. He also came to Cracow, where he studied collections of the Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Jagiellonian University Archaeological Cabinet and most probably also the Princes Czartoryski Museum. However, he published only brief notes about the brooches he had seen there. Unfortunately, he did not include their illustrations or information about other objects he had seen. This data can be found in his unpublished archive, which sheds new light on the Cracow archaeological collections from the second half of the 19th c.