In Warsaw, the world's first Museum of Jars of the World was opened, in which over 1.000 jars - classic glass, ceramic, clay, wooden - display that simple patent from the Napoleonic Wars until today as a symbol of technical progress that enabled humanity to store food for bad times and survive crises .
In the Warsaw Palace of Culture and Science, in the new Warsaw Museum, jars of all possible shapes, colors, designs and sizes, types of closures are sorted into thematic sections.
"Household jars", "Botany in a jar", "Drugs not only from the pharmacy", "Spajz", "Cosmetics from a jar" are some of the sections that show what an ordinary jar was used for, and those with bizarre shapes or decorations got have their own special section of miracle jars.
"When people moved from a nomadic to a sedentary lifestyle, the problem arose of how to preserve food. The first prototypes of jars, various gourds and jars appeared as early as the ancient Sumerians in Mesopotamia. Amphoras followed... The real turning point, however, was brought by only Napoleonic times," said the curator of the Museum of Jars, Marek Tračik.
According to Tračik, Napolean promised a large reward of several hundred thousand francs for the food needs of his army to whoever found a way to preserve food for the army as long as possible, and thus the first real jars were born.
"The jar is a symbol of intergenerational solidarity and good food, as well as technical progress, because thanks to it, people can preserve food and peacefully survive times of great crisis," Tračik said.
To open such a museum, the first in the world, in Warsaw, somewhat out of spite, the founders were prompted by the insulting campaign of a politician who did not want those who were not born in Warsaw to have the right to vote in the referendum for the removal of the mayor and insultingly publicly called them jars, since from a weekend spent with relatives in the countryside, they return to Warsaw with jars of home-made food.
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