The winners of international contest to revamp the Museum of Architecture in Wrocaw, Poland have been revealedThe contest sought proposals to restore and extend the museum which is located in a series of 15th-century buildings in Wrocaws Old Town including the St Bernardine of Sienna Church and a monastic quadrangle with a garden.The overall winner of the approximately 10,000 (PLN 50,000) prize was Warsaw-based practice TO Micha Sikorski Architekt which will now be invited to negotiate for a design contract. The firms winning scheme was praised by judges for its use of recycled materials and for cleverly combining a reinterpretation of the past with thoughts about the present and future.The second prize of around 8,000 (PLN 40,000) went to Ch+ architectural studio from Wroclaw while a third prize of around 6,000 (PLN 30,000) was awarded to Warsaw-based Jdrak-Kociesza Pracownia Projektowa.Museum of Architecture in WrocawCredit:Image by Maciej KaczorThe estimated 21.75 million (PLN 110 million) project will overhaul and upgrade the facility which was founded in 1965, features the largest collection of stained glass in Poland, includes exhibitions of architecture spanning from the medieval to constructivist periods, and is the countrys only architecture museum.Founded during the sixth century as a trade settlement on the Amber Road known as Budorigum, Wrocaw in the Lower Silesian region of Poland is today a growing city of more than 674,000 inhabitants with strong cultural and economic links to Germany and the Czech Republic.Local architectural landmarks in Wrocaw include the 1913 Centennial Hall exhibition space designed by Max Berg and the Plac Grunwaldzki housing estate designed by Jadwiga Grabowska-Hawrylak.The museum is located in the centre of the historic city formerly part of Germany and known as Breslau and is a short distance from the unique Racawice Panorama museum which hosts a huge 15 by 114m cycloramic painting showing the Battle of Racawice.Museum of Architecture in WroclawCredit:Image by Jerzy WypychThe latest contest comes six years after an international competition was launched to design a new entrance lobby for the Krupa art gallery which overlooks a 13th-century Market Square in the centre of Wrocaw.Key aims of the project include making the museum fully accessible to people with disabilities and delivering a new multi-functional education area with a modern caf and bookstore that can transform the museum into a 'vibrant centre for meetings and the dynamic exchange of ideas.'Judges for the contest included Micha Duda, director of the Museum of Architecture in Wrocaw; Bartomiej wierczewski, deputy director of the Department of Sustainable Development at the Wrocaw City Office; and Aleksandra Jaeschke, assistant professor at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Texas, Austin.Duda said: The winning [proposal] weaves together several different ideas. For one, it talks about the past, including the identity of this institution, which, at the beginning, was mostly concerned with collecting the remains of non-existent buildings.On the other hand, it offers a contemporary perspective on the circularity of objects, a truly thought-provoking subject. Its crucial to emphasize that the project is not yet finished, but rather serves as an invitation to our entire team to collaborate on the implementation strategy. This marks the beginning of a new and exciting chapter.