Arms Cabinet
Viennese Hall (formerly Picture Gallery)
The theater and concert hall were connected to the Picture Gallery. The room was arranged at the end of the eighteenth century to display the duke's collection of paintings. An inventory from the year eighteen hundred recorded that the palace was equipped with five hundred sixty-one paintings and sixty sculptures, numismatic collections, porcelain, and other valuable items. The library contained five hundred thirty-nine books and five hundred so-called "white ravens". It included manuscripts, documents, and old prints. The collections of Żagań are art and painting of the highest level, family jewels, and one of the largest collections of family portraits, authored by Joseph Grassi. Subsequent inventories confirm that the ducal collection was always active, its resources changing, and its fate still evokes emotions to this day. In the second half of the nineteenth century, the palace collections were made available as a museum, which operated with regulations and a palace interior tour route.
The operation of the concert hall, theater, and picture gallery during the time of Duchess de Talleyrand-Périgord, in addition to its representative and artistic nature, was also an effort to create a cultural center in Żagań with a supra-regional rank, which was initiated by Peter Biron. In the final part of the Picture Gallery, the Duchess recreated the magnificent collection of white weapons sold after her father's death, creating the Weapon Cabinet.
The theater and concert hall were connected to the Picture Gallery. The room was arranged at the end of the eighteenth century to display the duke's collection of paintings. An inventory from the year eighteen hundred recorded that the palace was equipped with five hundred sixty-one paintings and sixty sculptures, numismatic collections, porcelain, and other valuable items. The library contained five hundred thirty-nine books and five hundred so-called "white ravens". It included manuscripts, documents, and old prints. The collections of Żagań are art and painting of the highest level, family jewels, and one of the largest collections of family portraits, authored by Joseph Grassi. Subsequent inventories confirm that the ducal collection was always active, its resources changing, and its fate still evokes emotions to this day. In the second half of the nineteenth century, the palace collections were made available as a museum, which operated with regulations and a palace interior tour route.
The operation of the concert hall, theater, and picture gallery during the time of Duchess de Talleyrand-Périgord, in addition to its representative and artistic nature, was also an effort to create a cultural center in Żagań with a supra-regional rank, which was initiated by Peter Biron. In the final part of the Picture Gallery, the Duchess recreated the magnificent collection of white weapons sold after her father's death, creating the Weapon Cabinet.