Muzea archologiczne a działalność konserwatorska

The author reviews the situation that arose in Poland in 1975 in the field o f the protection o f cultural values after a change in the administrative structure. He points out that an increase in the number o f conservators and opening o f new district museums are favourable phenomena, thanks to which there will be a more even distribution o f professional archaeologists throughout Poland. For voivodship conservators o f historic monuments the museums are an essential base of personnel, storehouse and conservators’ reserves. Here, a close cooperation is a guarantee o f successes in the protection o f archaeological cultural values. Archaeological as well as national and district museums with proper archaeological sections should, in the author’s opinion, have statutory rights to carry out excavation studies on the whole territory o f Poland and abroad. Museums play an ever growing role in educating archaeological specialists including those engaged in conservation works. An alarming symptom noticed in recent years is the outflow o f conservation experts from museums. The author finds a rise in their earnings to be an extremely urgent question.