{"id":19054,"date":"2026-04-16T11:36:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T11:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.mnk.pl\/wystawy\/szuflada-szymborskiej\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T11:46:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T11:46:40","slug":"szuflada-szymborskiej","status":"publish","type":"wystawy","link":"https:\/\/mnk.pl\/en\/wystawy\/szuflada-szymborskiej\/","title":{"rendered":"Szymborska\u2019s Drawer"},"content":{"rendered":"

On 1 February 2013, the first anniversary of the death of Wis\u0142awa Szymborska, the exhibition Szymborska\u2019s Drawer<\/em> opened at Szo\u0142ayski House, a Department of the National Museum in Krakow (pl. Szczepanski 9).<\/p>\n

Wis\u0142awa Szymborska was the ambassador of the Gallery of 19th-Century Polish Art in the Sukiennice (Cloth Hall), which is why the National Museum in Krakow, always grateful for this honour, has made a proposal to the Wis\u0142awa Szymborska Foundation regarding part of the Nobel Prize laureate\u2019s legacy. Specifically, we proposed to dedicate a few rooms in the recently refurbished Szo\u0142ayski House to the installation of an exhibition of the poet\u2019s belongings: her collages, knick-knacks, books, and other household items from her apartment with the famous chest of many drawers and bed. We believe that these precious relics should not be stowed away in a warehouse, but available to the public. The Foundation \u2013 especially since it now serves as Ambassador of the Gallery in the Cloth Hall \u2013 has agreed to our proposal. Together with the Foundation and the exhibition\u2019s designers, we have prepared a place called \u201cSzymborska\u2019s Drawer\u201d \u2013 neither a reconstruction of her flat, nor a memorial chamber, but rather an interior arranged in the somewhat surreal spirit so dear to the poet\u2019s heart – says Zofia Go\u0142ubiew, Director of the National Museum in Krakow.<\/p>\n

The exhibition is a kind of stage set, a three-dimensional collage, in which the poet’s belongings are juxtaposed with quotations from her works and photographs of people, places and things, leading the viewer into her private world of poetic imagination and intellectual inspiration.<\/p>\n

An interesting object in the drawer<\/em> is a chest designed by the Nobel Prize winner, in which she kept photographs and other things. How important her furniture was for her is testified by the poem Possibilities<\/em> in which poet confesses I prefer desk drawers<\/em> \u2013 hence the title of the exhibition. In this exhibition, the chest is hidden behind the door, and can be seen only through a peephole.<\/p>\n\n\n

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