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The Ossolineum or Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich (ZNiO, National Ossoliński Institute) meritorious department for Polish science and culture (till 1939 it combined the Library, Publishing House and Lubomirski Museum), which was founded for Polish Nation in 1817 by Józef Maksymilian Ossoliński, and was opened in 1827 in Lviv.
It was one of the most important Polish culture centres, since it had extremely rich library collection, which was the second in the country when it comes to its size after the Jagiellonian Library.Incomes form the land estates of its founder, managed for life by curators, became the livelihood of the Institute.