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01.09.2020
30.05.2021
PUBLISHERS – BINDERS – GOLDSMITHS Historical book covers from the collections of the National Museum
A presentation of seventy old prints with covers made of leather applied to boards and embossed with bookbinding tools in the style corresponding to the era of their printing.05.02.2021
01.08.2021
Architecture as the Music of Space. 5 extraordinary concert halls in Europe
The exhibition at the Cracovia Hotel is the second exhibition, which was originally organised at the Mieczysław Karłowicz Philharmonic in Szczecin in 2016. The starting point for its creation was the new Philharmonic building designed by the Barcelona-based Barozzi Veig studio, which was awarded the architectural Mies van der Rohe award.02.02.2021
05.09.2021
From the Princes’ Collection
The collection of the Princes Czartoryski Library is a vast repository with resources that keep surprising us.02.02.2021
05.09.2021
ROYAL PORTRAITS - VASES
The Cabinet of Drawings and Engravings of the Princes Czartoryski Museum presents assorted engravings from the collection with images of successive electoral kings of Poland from the Vasa dynasty. The portraits on display are works by prominent Dutch artists of the 16th to 17th centuries.09.07.2021
26.09.2021
Berestechko 1651. Silver frontage from the sanctuary of Our Lady of Chełm
Antependium is a decorative panel placed beneath an altar table (mensa). The silver antependium from the collegiate church in Chelm is the only remaining piece of the baroque furnishing of the temple. Until 1874 the church was a cathedral of the orthodox dioecese that was united with Roman catholic church.05.03.2021
11.07.2021
Aleksander Kotsis (1836-1877) Shades of Realism
Born in Ludwinów near Krakow and living in Podgórze, Aleksander Kotsis was one of the most valued Polish painters working in the mid-19th century. His work is associated with artistic circles in Krakow, Vienna and Munich. Kotsis's art represents the direction of 19th-century realism, and its analogies can be found in the works of the so-called painters of the people, e.g. Jean-François Millet (1814-1875). What is also worth-noting is the Romantic perception of the world.
30.12.2020
16.05.2021
MUSEUM POWER
MUSEUM POWER is an experimental exhibition addressed to those of us who have visited a museum at least once in their lives and left it awestruck, or hated it or remained indifferent. We have been through that, too. What was happening to us then? How did our senses and cultural anchoring influence that experience? And how were we influenced by the museum itself?20.02.2019
09.02.2020
“Faces of Poland – Faces of Poles” the Presidential Palace in Warsaw
The works of Jacek Malczewski, Zbigniew Pronaszko, Leon Wyczółkowski, but also of modern painters: Wiesław Szamborski or Romuald Oramus will form the exhibition “Faces of Poland – faces of Poles”. It is another part of the presentation of Polish art at the Presidential Palace in Warsaw, prepared by the National Museum in Krakow.30.10.2020
25.04.2021
Marian Warzecha.
The Open SetThe exhibition of Marian Warzecha’s work held at the National Museum in Krakow, while modest, is a vitally important initiative aimed at presenting the oeuvre of this eminent artist.20.09.2019
20.09.2020
Warning! Forgery!
Counterfeiting coins is as old as the coins themselves. Since the beginning, people tried to improve their economic existence by making their own money, infringing the rights of their official issuers.26.06.2020
26.07.2020
Zygmunt Rytka. To Whom Does the Cosmos Belong?
To Whom Does the Cosmos Belong? is the first exhibition of the works of Zygmunt Rytka to have been realised by utilising the late artist’s digitised archive. The structural starting point for the exhibition is the Photovision series, the main part of which was created between 1978–1983. This was a period spanning the end of the Gierek era, with its attempts at creating a socialist consumer society; subsequent strikes and the struggle for the legalisation of the Solidarity labour movement; and the declaration and imposition of martial law in Poland, accompanied by increasing propaganda and manipulation of mass media through information channels controlled by the regime. During this time, Rytka embarked on a project oriented around photographing his television screen. He took more than 5,000 pictures from this vantage, the majority of which have never been published. These photographs capture not only the political and cultural climate of Poland in the late 1970s and early 1980s, but they also transcend literality, forming a stream of unsettling images, as if unspooling from the collective consciousness of modern society.
21.10.2020
03.11.2020
The Vistula is burning
The weather as we know it does not exist anymore so the time of conscious self-enmeshment has come. We reach for the figure of the burning water as something both unusual and stunning; a metaphor of what may happen after the ice sheet melts down, the acidification of oceans rises, soils dry out and following many other signs in the panorama of this beautiful world, which is going extinct before our very eyes but which we still can save before the rivers flame up. The Vistula is Burning is an alarm that tolls the end of the well-known order. We are bringing up the longest Polish river because like Andri Snær Magnason, the author of On Time and Water, we are confident that in order to see a big picture of a problem we need to experience it locally. What is required to ease off "the shock of the future" is think of a strategy of survival for an individual, micro-environments and entire society. Phenomena that are hard to comprehend emerge like viscous hyper-objects.20.09.2017
31.12.2019
I find ancient times very beautiful. Antiquity seen by a collector
The exhibition "I find ancient times very beautiful. Antiquity seen by a collector" includes works from three Krakow collections: the Princes Czartoryski Museum, the Potocki Palace in Krzeszowice and the National Museum in Krakow.30.06.2020
09.04.2021
Wyspiański. Studio Space
Exhibition of Stanisław Wyspiański’s works from the collection of the National Museum in Krakow.16.10.2020
28.03.2021
Genius of the Baroque. Szymon Czechowicz (1689-1775)
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