The Construction of the Main Building

• We are presenting to you the archival photographic documentation from the 1930s, which was when the first construction works on the new building of the National Museum in Krakow began. The edifice, designed by Bolesław Szmidt, Czesław Boratyński and Edward Kreisler, was built intermittently from 1934 to 1989. Its erection was a major construction and financial undertaking of the Krakow municipality, assisted by ordinary citizens, artists, and numerous organisations.

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  Labourers working at the construction site

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  Labourers working on the gravel and sand layer under the first section of the Museum

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  Construction works for the Main Building of the NMK

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  Welder at work at the construction site

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  The framework of the Main Building of the NMK

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  Construction works for the Main Building of the NMK

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  Digging works during the construction of the Main Building of the NMK

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  Construction works for the Main Building of the NMK

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  Construction of the Main Building of the NMK

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  A night view of the Main Building of the National Museum in Krakow