Awards and Medals
- Bronze, Silver, and Gold Polish Cross of Merit (from 1950)
- Cavalier Cross of the Order of the Rebirth of Poland (Polonia Restituta)
- Officer's Cross of the Order Polonia Restituta
- Commander's Cross of the Order Polonia Restituta
- Commander's Cross with a star (Grand Officer of Polonia Restituta, (1998)
- Medal of the National Education Commission
- The "Golden Screen" for television personality (1975, 1980)
- Medal of the Mexican Academy of Sciences for his life's work in conservation.
- The European Von Herder Award for conservation and architectural studies (1979)
- Gold Medal Gloria Artis (2006)
- Honorary Doctorate of the Kraków Polytechnic (1998)
- Honorary Doctorate of the Technical University in Budapest (1998)
During the early 1980s as a vice-minister of Culture and Art he signed an agreement to return by April 1982 all of the exhibits brought to the National Museum in Warsaw after World War II from Gdańsk. The timetable was interrupted by the institution of Martial Law in December 1981, and the first exhibits were not returned until 1985 although many of them remain in Warsaw.
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