Muzeum Pałac Herbsta
Museum · Łódź
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The Herbst Palace was built in 1875-1877 for Matylda and Edward Herbst, part of Karol Scheibler's Księży Młyn factory complex. Now a branch of Łódź's Museum of Art, it displays restored period interiors and a gallery of Polish painting from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. It carries the title Monument of History.
Hilary Majewski designed the villa in 1875-1877 as a wedding gift from Karol Scheibler to his eldest daughter Matylda and her husband Edward Herbst, who went on to manage the Scheibler cotton empire after the mogul's death. It stands at the heart of Księży Młyn, the self-contained factory settlement Scheibler built around his mill. The Herbst family kept the residence until 1942; nationalized after the war, it served for a time as a social welfare training center before falling into disrepair. The Museum of Art took over the building in 1976 and reopened it to the public in 1990 after restoring the interiors, the same year it received the first Europa Nostra medal awarded in Poland. President Bronisław Komorowski granted the museum the title Monument of History in 2015.
What you see
The single-storey neo-Renaissance villa sits on a near-square plan under a four-slope roof topped with a belvedere, joined to a glazed orangery passage and a ballroom added on its eastern side in 1877.
Practical
Open Tuesday to Sunday, 11:00 to 17:00, with extended hours to 19:00 on Thursdays; closed Mondays.
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Palace — a listed immovable monument in poland.