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Pilgrims, Travellers, Tourists – Exploring the World 01.09.2015-10.01.2016 Pilgrims, Travellers, Tourists – Exploring the World

The exhibition titled Pilgrims, Travellers, Tourists – Exploring the World. From the NMK Collection of Old Prints and Maps presents a selection of 60 works dating back to the period from the 15th to the 19th century and devoted to travels, which we learn about through memoirs and literature related to historiography and geography. The old volumes are accompanied by 19 antique maps and atlases.
But I have swam through libraries and sailed through oceans. (Herman Melville, Moby Dick)

To this day, the intrinsic need to undertake peregrinations and long journeys shapes the human psyche, mind and builds societies. Eternally inherent in the human condition and our desire to explore the world, it is reflected in the pages of old books and antique maps. The displayed selection of 60 works dating back to the period from the 15th to the 19th century includes memoirs and literature related to travelling, historiography and geography as well as tourist guidebooks, complemented by maps and atlases (19), published in the period from the 16th to the 20th century.

We are introduced to the world of pilgrimages, depicted through the prism of Christianity, by a blind monk, perhaps a beggar-pilgrim, portrayed in a woodcut taken from the history of the world by Werner Rolewinck, published around 1490. Pilgrims can also be found in the illustrations for a volume dating back to 1587 and describing a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. A depiction of our native pilgrim – Mikołaj Krzysztof Radziwiłł – can be seen in his Peregrination to the Holy Land from 1601 and 1611. A special cult of Our Lady is illustrated in sacred images portraying Mary and in the descriptions of sanctuaries which were dedicated to her. Particularly worthy of interest is the depiction of Our Lady of Częstochowa in the first preserved printed leaflet for pilgrims, probably published in Krakow around 1521, which tells the story of the miraculous image. The importance of pilgrimage in Islam is reflected in the depiction of the holiest city of the Muslims – Mecca and Al-Ka'bah, derived from the description of Arabia published in 1847 .

The Hutten-Czapski Museum

ul. Piłsudskiego 12, 31-109 Kraków
  • Monday: closed
  • tue : 10.00-18.00
  • wednesday-sunday: 10.00-16.00
Pilgrims, Travellers, Tourists – Exploring the World
Pilgrims, Travellers, Tourists – Exploring the World
Pilgrims, Travellers, Tourists – Exploring the World