Art department
The beginning of the art collection at the Stalowa Wola Regional Museum was given by the transfer of the collection of the Society of Fine Arts in Stalowa Wola. In the collection, in addition to contemporary art, mainly of artists associated with the region, there is also handicraft (Judaica). The core of the collection is the work of two painters, Alfons Karpinski and Stefan Norblin.
The collection of archaeological artefacts provides a relatively good insight into the earliest past of the region in the Lower San and Łęg basins in the Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages, that is, from the beginnings of human settlement until the early Middle Ages.
From the Paleolithic and Mesolithic periods are flint materials discovered in Jastkowice.
From the Neolithic period and the early Bronze Age come relics such as clay vessels and axes, hatchets, hoes, harvesting tools made of flint, stone and horn (among others from Nisk, Zarzecz, Agatówka, Rzeczyca Długa, Zabrno, Krawce, Trześni and Pysznica). An interesting monument is a bronze axe from Turbi.
For the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age, the most representative collection consists of materials from the cemeteries of the Tarnobrzeg Lusatian culture from Pysznica and Gorzyce:
ashtrays, i.e. vessels into which the burnt remains of the dead were deposited, and bronze ornaments.
Other valuable relics include examples of weapons and grave equipment of warriors from the Przeworsk culture: from Koziarnia and Bojanowo, spearheads from Rozwadów, Gorzyce, Pikul and Nowosielec, as well as a sword and scissors from Zarzecz. This collection is enriched by reconstructions of a spearhead with runic inscriptions from Rozwadów and a sword from Rzeczyca Długa, imported from the Roman Empire with an image of the goddess Victoria and a legionary eagle.
On the other hand, ornaments from the early medieval period come from the cemetery in Trzesnia: silver, tin, bronze cabochons and a ring.
The collection of the Regional Museum in Stalowa Wola also includes relics from archaeological and exhumation works carried out in 2014-2017 on cemeteries from the time of World War I in Zdziary, Domostaw and Kłyżów
