Ossolineum

The Ossolineum or Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich (ZNiO, National Ossoliński Institute) a meritorious department for Polish science and culture (until 1939 it combined a Library, Publishing House and the Lubomirski Museum), which was founded for the Polish Nation in 1817 by Józef Maksymilian Ossoliński and opened in 1827 in Lwów (now Lviv in Ukraine).