The pre-1945 archaeological and ethnographic legacy of the University of Wrocław as dissonant heritage

The paper addresses the adaptation of the post-German legacy in the Polish city of Wrocław after 1945, as well as the transfer and the dispersal of the collection. How complicated a process was initiated at that time is evidenced by the fact that to this day not all components of the acquired property have been sufficiently researched or catalogued. In particular, those items that were considered sensitive remained in storage for decades. These included, among others, archaeological and ethnographic collections. Interestingly, both groups of collections came from two German museums at the University of Wrocław: the Archaeological Museum and the Anthropological-Ethnographic Museum, which had no continuators in Polish Wrocław. The collections of these museums that survived after the war became susceptible to dispersal. Some were incorporated into the collections of the departments and institutes of the University of Wrocław, but the most valuable objects were transported to Warsaw. This happened, among others, with the archaeological and ethnographic collections, which serve as examples to present attempts to implement methodological proposals from the contemporary humanities that can support research on dissonant heritage.