The Andrzej Wawrzyniak Asia and Pacific Museum in Warsaw, Poland

Established 1973 on the 4,000-piece collection Andrzej Wawrzyniak donated to the Polish state after nine years as a diplomat in Indonesia; renamed in his honour in 2017.

Beyond the founding Indonesian collection (arms, textiles, shadow-puppets, masks, instruments, sculpture, contemporary painting), the museum holds notable material from Mongolia, India, Nepal, Tibet, Vietnam, Burma, Laos, China, Central Asia, Afghanistan, Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu.

Lacking a permanent gallery for decades, the collection was shown mainly in two small spaces (the Asian Gallery and Nusantara) and in nearly 1,000 exhibitions across Poland and abroad over 40+ years. It moved to a new space in 2013 with storerooms, a photo studio, conservation workshop, conference hall and education space; the first permanent-exhibition section, the "Sound Zone" (about 120 musical instruments), opened in 2016.

Collection size: 22,000 inventory numbers, spanning most of Asia and parts of the Pacific, plus Polish artists' work inspired by Asian travels.