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16.12.2016
12.03.2017
There are very few mementoes of Adam Asnyk – a poet, journalist, insurgent, Tatra climber, activist, Member of Parliament and Krakow councillor – preserved in Polish collections. Some of them – such as his oil portrait, ‘addresses’ on the occasion of his namedays – are stored at the National Museum in Krakow, and will be gathered for the first time in one exhibition to be presented to the public.
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10.03.2017
28.05.2017
The exhibition The Power of the Avant-Garde features works which have not been shown to the Polish public before, works by great artists, regarded already as classics in art history, such as Fernand Léger, Edvard Munch, Kazimir Malevich, Piet Mondrian and Alexander Archipenko. Works produced in the first decades of the 20th century are accompanied by the contemporary ones, dialoguing with historical objects.
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06.09.2016
31.12.2016
On 6 September, the Emeryk Hutten-Czapski Museum opened a display presenting the most beautiful and interesting old prints from the NMK collection on the theme of medal-making. The exhibition from the series 'De Re Nummaria' features objects such as albums with meticulous drawings presenting the achievements of ancient medallists, as well as academic studies analyzing the information they contain.
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14.02.2017
03.05.2017
The exhibition which is an exceptional presentation of the subject of the Japanese woman features images and impressions from her life, both in paintings and woodblock prints. They show the unique secrets of the Floating World (Jap. ukiyo), the secrets of intimate scenes.
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10.02.2017
23.04.2017
It is the first big exclusive exhibition of Baroque art from Slovakia in Poland. The exhibition exploits the unique opportunity to present the Baroque art from the collection of Slovak National Gallery in wider spectrum due to the refurbishment of its premises.
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21.10.2016
22.01.2017
The exhibition will present approximately 90 paintings coming mainly from two galleries: an internationally acclaimed collection of Gábor Kovács – one of the most important private art collections in Hungary, and from the Hungarian National Gallery.
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08.10.2016
15.01.2017
The exhibition on display in the Szołayski House will constitute an attempt to confront the works of two outstanding personalities: the French sculpture master Auguste Rodin and the Polish artist Xawery Dunikowski. We will present 76 objects: paintings, sculptures and drawings, all of which depict women. As many as 30 works will be transferred from the Musée Rodin in Paris.
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19.11.2016
18.12.2016
'Art Now' is a joint project of SZLACHETNA PACZKA (Noble Box) charity and the National Museum in Krakow. Come and visit our exhibition in the Main Building where we present 143 works submitted to this project. Proceeds from their sale will be used to support families in need.
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08.11.2016
18.12.2016
The National Museum in Krakow continues a series of presentations of outstanding but less known, or sometimes unknown, works of European art in Polish collections. Following a show of a privately owned relief by Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini, the Europeum Centre for European Culture will put on view one of the most valuable pieces of painting discovered lately in Krakow: The Lapidation of Saint Stephen, an oil on canvas from a church devoted to that saint, from November 8 on.
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23.07.2016
04.12.2016
From 23 July, visitors to the Princes Czartoryski Arsenal Museum have the opportunity to see 'Landscape with the Good Samaritan' by a renowned Dutch artist – Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606–1669). The display heralds the exhibition, scheduled for next year, which will present selected collections of the Princes Czartoryski Museum, currently under reconstruction.
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26.11.2016
04.12.2016
El Greco is one of the most important artists in the history of art, while his 'Ecstasy of St. Francis' is one of the most valuable paintings in Polish collections. Having undergone a thorough conservation process, the masterpiece can now be admired in the Gallery of 19th-Century Polish Art in the Sukiennice. Following the exhibition, the painting will return to Siedlce, where it will be on permanent display in the Diocesan Museum.
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16.11.2016
23.11.2016
From 16 to 23 November, the Sukiennice will hold a small exhibition presenting thirty works by Aniela (Lela) Pawlikowska.
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11.08.2016
13.11.2016
On the occasion of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, in Poland also known as the festival of Our Lady of Herbs, the National Museum in Krakow has prepared a presentation of a unique painting as part of the series 'Miraculous Power of Art'. Maria Immaculata surrounded by a rosary, from the parish church in Krosno, is an intriguing image of the Mother of God displayed in the Bishop Erazm Ciołek Palace.
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24.06.2016
09.10.2016
Organized as part of the World Youth Days Krakow 2016 and the Jubilee of Mercy celebrated at the same time in the Catholic Church, the exhibition presents nearly 100 works, mainly from Italian collections, whose leading theme is Mary the Mother of Mercy. It features works by prominent Italian, French, Dutch and German artists such as Donatello, Mantegna, who were active from the 14th to the 18th century.
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24.05.2016
04.09.2016
In 2016, we are we are commemorating two round anniversaries of the deaths of the founders of the Emeryk Hutten-Czapski Museum: 120 years have passed since the death, in Krakow, of Count Emeryk Hutten-Czapski (1828-1896), an outstanding collector and owner of the greatest collection of Polish coins and medals and the initiator of the Counts Czapski museum, and 100 years have passed since the death, in Mink, Belarus, of his wife Elżbieta Hutten-Czapska née Baroness Meyendorff (1833―1916), the real founder of the Emeryk Hutten-Czapski Museum and the one who donated it to the City of Krakow. These anniversaries provide an opportunity to recall some less known facts from the last years of their lives and show the private side of this unique couple.