"Kwartalnik Historii Kultury Materialnej" (“The Quarterly of the History of Material Culture”) is published by the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology Polish Academy of Sciences.
It has been published since 1953.
It is an interdisciplinary journal, integrating historians, art historians, archaeologists and ethnologists who are interested in the history of civilization. Published materials mainly concern the material and technical aspects of production, consumption and exchange processes, from prehistory to the 20th century on Polish territory and abroad, especially in the countries of Central Europe.
The journal publishes articles in Polish and in foreign languages, which are varied in terms of subject matter and form, as well as review and reporting items. 
No fees or charges are due for submission, review process, manuscript processing and publishing in the journal.

The Journal provides immediate open access to its content under a CC-BY version 4.0 International licence.

All materials are scanned before publication with an anti-plagiarism software.