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Jan Karski - The Return of a Hero
Museum of the City of Lodz would like to invite for the series of events "The Week of the Courier of the Polish Secret State", which are a part of a historical education project "Jan Karski - The Return of a Hero". -
The Emilie Flöge Fabric Sample Collection
This exhibition contains 350 items from the estate of Emilie Flöge (1874–1952), the partner and muse of Gustav Klimt. -
New National Museum!
The 150th anniversary of the National Museum in Warsaw coincides with a large-scale modernisation of this institution, including a rearrangement of the permanent exhibitions, revitalisation of the Main Courtyard, and renovation of the cinema. -
Europa Nostra Heritage Award for Piroska Kovács
During this year’s European Heritage Congress in Lisbon, Piroska Kovács was awarded for her work on heritage protection – her long‑term efforts in researching, documenting and preserving the traditional, richly decorated Szekler gates were appreciated. -
Klimt. The Wien Museum Collection
The Klimt Collection at Wien Museum is the biggest and most varied of its kind in the world. Incorporating all the periods of his work, the collection spans from his days as a student and his first major commissions in the 1880s, right up to a year before his death in 1918, including two of his absolute masterpieces: the painting, Pallas Athene, and the portrait of Emilie Flöge. -
Conference “Patrimonium, Culture and Hospitality: Benedictine monasteries as places of meeting”
The Benedictine Abbey in Tyniec, Matej Bel University and Banská Bystrica invite to take part in a conference which is being organized as part of a project financed by the Visehrad Fund. The goal of this conference is to focus on the role of Benedictine monasteries in shaping European identity, in the past and in contemporary times. -
Alfons Mucha. The Slav Epic
The Slav Epic was intended as Mucha’s opus magnum as well as a pictorial manifesto of the unity of Western and Eastern Slavs. The artist worked on the cycle for 18 years, after his return from America. Twenty huge canvasses were gifted to the city and were to be exhibited in a purpose-built pavilion. This did not come to pass -
GDR. Stories from a vanished country
Five eminent photographers connected with the prestigious OSTKREUZ photographic agency – Sibylle Bergmann, Harald Hauswald, Ute Mahler, Werner Mahler, Maurice Weiss – documented the drab existence of the citizens of East Germany. The black-and-white photographs, rich in irony, expose the absurdity and sham of the communism system. -
A belated pardon. Some remarks on the nostalgia for the unwanted heritage of communist Poland
The Polish People’s Republic has formally existed since 1952, although in fact its political being began eight years earlier. In 1989 it became history. Nearly half a century of its existence was a period of rapid industrialisation and, consequently, of mass urbanisation and social migration. On the eve of the Second World War more than three-quarters of all Polish citizens lived in the countryside and just one-quarter in the cities, while half a century later these proportions were reversed. Whether we like it or not, this great social revolution, despite being brutal and having had its victims, has created the modern reality of Polish cities.