Exhibition archives
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11.02.2022
29.05.2022
The municipality is building. Residential construction in Vienna 1920 – 2020
In the late 19th and early 20th century, Vienna was characterized by an incredible shortage of accommodation. In particular the working class had to live in the most cramped quarters. Every floor had only one water tap, the people had to share just one toilet. The high rent was covered by taking in bed tenants who would use the sleeping places for an hourly fee. -
15.02.2022
01.05.2022
ELECTION KINGS AND DIPLOMACY part 2
The Cabinet of Prints and Drawings of the Princes Czartoryski Museum presents a new set of prints from the collection. Portraits and representations of various ceremonies are connected with the reign of the elected kings of Poland, this time starting with John II Casimir Vasa. The exhibited engravings are works by outstanding Dutch, Italian, German, Gdansk and Augsburg artists of the 17th-18th centuries. -
25.09.2020
07.03.2021
Jan Matejko. Various Stories
A temporary exhibition, integrated into the permanent exhibition of Jan Matejko's biographical museum, has been created around stories that are the subject of eight oil sketches and paintings by the artist – intimate historical compositions, sketches for large canvases, images of historical figures and portraits – created in various periods of his work. -
07.09.2021
30.01.2022
Great Poles
The “Great Poles” exhibition presents the profiles of eminent Poles who played an important role in the history of the nation, Europe and the world. They include writers, poets, scholars, leaders and national heroes. They left a legacy whose material record is represented by manuscripts and prints from the Czartoryski Library. -
27.08.2021
06.03.2022
The Manor House in Jankówka. Display of the painting by Józef Mehoffer
In the autumn of 1907, fulfilling his dream of having a house with a garden, Józef Mehoffer purchased an 18th-century larch wood manor house in the village of Jankówka in the Pogórze Wielickie region, which he owned until 1917. It was located on a hill from which, as Jadwiga Mehoffer writes, “from above the crowns of the trees in the overgrown orchard a broad view spread out of the arcs of mountain ranges,” including the peaks of the Beskid mountains and at times even the Tatras. -
09.10.2021
30.01.2022
Young Poland: An Arts and Crafts Movement, 1890-1918
The Young Poland movement emerged in the 1890s in response to the country’s non-existence for almost a century. It embraced an unprecedented flourishing of applied arts and the revival of crafts, drawing inspiration from nature, history, peasant traditions and craftsmanship to convey patriotic values.
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29.03.2022
04.09.2022
The Vistula, Queen of Polish Rivers
Near the borders of Poland in the province of Lesser Poland there stands a high and rocky crag of the Tatra mountains […] whence the river Vistula flows from its source and meanders through the centre of the Crown Kingdom of Poland northwards to the very city of Gdańsk, where its fresh waters into the salt water of the Baltic Sea flow and intermingle. Indeed, this one among all others in the Kingdom of Poland is known as the Head of All Rivers. These words about the Vistula and a woodcut showing a landscape with Barania Góra (Ram Mountain), where the sources of the Vistula are located, open an exhibition dedicated to this queen of Polish rivers and portrayals of it in historic books, maps, and plans. A characterisation of the Vistula and an engraving of it were included in a 1703 edition of Hieronim Morsztyn’s work “Antypasty Małżeńskie (Matrimonial Appetisers)”, a collection of three amorous tales first published in 1650.
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04.10.2022
01.01.2023
The Geniuses of the cathedral Treasury
The Cathedral Treasury at Wawel Castle is a Late Gothic, three-bay structure with a rib-vault ceiling, constructed in the late 15th century, adjacent to the Cathedral on the northeast side. Since that time, it has been a place for storing precious historic objects of national significance such as sacred relics, priestly regalia, and other ceremonial items.
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28.01.2022
02.10.2022
LELEWEL. The Polish engraver
Joachim Lelewel (1786-1861), a distinguished Pole, politician and historian, went down in Polish historiography as the author of pioneering writings on history, the history of writing and bookselling, and the history of cartography and numismatics of antiquity and the Middle Ages. He worked in Warsaw and Vilnius, where he was professor of general history at the University of Vilnius. After the fall of the November Rising, as an emigrant he stayed briefly in France. In 1833 Belgium gave him shelter. He settled in Brussels, where he spent 28 years of his extremely busy life. His scientific achievements in numismatics from that time brought the Polish scholar international recognition and fame. -
29.12.2020
19.12.2021
Where’s Rome, where’s Crimea… Coinage of the Golden Horde and Crimean Khanate
The establishment of the Mongolian Empire in the early 13th century was the work of Genghis Khan (ca. 1162–1227), one of the greatest chiefs of all time. During his lifetime, he divided the state between his four sons. The westernmost part of the empire, known as the Golden Horde (or traditionally the Ulus of Jochi), included vast territories of Eastern Europe and northern Central Asia. The Golden Horde (1242–1502) flourished the most in the first half of the 14th century, but its downfall began just around a dozen years later. In the 15th century, the Crimean Peninsula, which had been its integral part for two centuries, passed into the hands of an autonomous dynasty of the Girays, who established the independent Crimean Khanate (1441–1783). -
04.03.2022
08.05.2022
Vilhelm Hammershøi. Light and Silence
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20.05.2022
28.08.2022
THE CLOTHED HOME: TUNING IN TO THE SEASONAL IMAGINATION
The exhibition explores the ways in which textiles have been used to reflect the rhythm of seasonal changes in domestic interiors. Today, as we spend most of the time in centrally heated apartments and air-conditioned offices, we have become indifferent to the circadian rhythm and nuances of nature’s changing cycles. Recalling bygone domestic rituals can help us tune in with the seasons again: cultivate our relationship with the natural world and react more attentively to its changes. -
18.02.2022
31.07.2022
Jacek Malczewski the romantic
Jacek Malczewski is one of the most outstanding individuals of Polish art, one who occupies a special place in the creative output of the Young Poland period. -
02.07.2021
02.01.2022
Polish National Styles 1890–1918
The exhibition Polish National Styles 1890–1918 opens the series called 4 x Modernity comprising four parts concerning original moderniza-tion patterns in Polish art, design and architec-ture of the 20th and 21st c. -
06.11.2021
06.02.2022
URSULA VON RYDINGSVÄRD. Nothing but Art
Monumental sculptures by Ursula von Rydingsvard evoke the ancient notion of sublimity. As we look at them in parks, on squares or incorporated into the wondrous architecture of American buildings, they enthuse us with their dynamic form. They testify to the artist's amazing ability to create poetic pieces made of cedar wood and charged with a personal and emotional touch.