The State Ethnographic Museum`s Archive has the collection of watercolours of ethnographic theme. The most valuable ones come from th ethnographic album of Galicia by Stanisław Putiatycki, made between 1840 and 1850. This is a unique collection of 72 watercolours and 8 pencil drawings documenting costumes and folk types from Galicia. This collection was handed dawn to SEM in Warsaw by the Iconographic Archive of the National Museum in Warsaw in the 1950s.