Nadzór nad działalnością muzeów publicznych w Polsce - ochrona i bezpieczeństwo zbiorów

The article comprises a discussion on the supervision of the activity of museums established by central administration bodies and local self-government bodies. Museums, as a result of the public administration decentralisation, have been equipped with substantial independence from the entities that establish them. Appropriate protection of the assets they are entrusted with, and the fulfilment of the objectives set for museums, call for appropriate supervision of the tasks they have been assigned. The present model is inefficient so it calls for an intervention of the legislator. First of all, it is necessary to adjust the scope of competence of individual supervision bodies, and the resources they have at their disposal, to the scope and nature of the tasks they have been entrusted with. It is especially important to introduce effective supervision of the protection of the collections, because it is the most important task of museums.