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24 October 201817 December 2019 Muzeum Narodowe w KrakowieA few words about...
Ikona Pantokratora, VI w., klasztor św. Katarzyny na Synaju

Icon differently

Please think now about an icon. Yes, a Byzantine and a modern one, too. Close your eyes… What can you see? I bet you see a picture painted on a wooden board. Definitely on a board. And painted using the tempera technique. Plus, a lot of […]

22 October 201822 October 2018 Muzeum Narodowe w KrakowieA few words about...
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81 precious Japanese woodblock prints join the NMK collections

Museum collections are living things, ones which grow and evolve and which are sometimes damaged or destroyed by human greed and pride, yet which are still alive.

8 September 201616 December 2016 Muzeum Narodowe w KrakowieA few words about...
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And you? What’s your question?

What’s your favourite smell in the museum? What emotions accompany you when you unwrap the long-awaited exhibits? Which work of art from our collection makes you laugh most and why? There’s one day a year when you can ask the curators from around the world anything […]

21 September 20151 October 2015 Muzeum Narodowe w KrakowieA few words about...
Witkacy, martwa natura z zegarem, Światosław Lenartowicz

What’s the time at Witkacy’s?

On Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz’ Still Life with a Clock. Still life constitutes one of the principal modern painting themes, often treated by the artists in a very particular way. In the 17th-century Dutch art, paintings depicting an arranged fragment of inanimate reality began to carry various symbolic […]

29 July 201525 September 2015 Muzeum Narodowe w KrakowieA few words about...
Witkacy portret Egenii Wiszomirskiej

Asymmetrical Lady’s Visit to Krakow

Eugenia Wyszomirska, a beautiful and intriguing woman, permanently residing in the Museum of Katowice History, has paid a holiday visit to Krakow and can be admired in ten outstanding portraits by Witkacy.  Who was she?

11 February 201517 July 2015 Muzeum Narodowe w KrakowieA few words about...
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When passion triumphs

In addition to arts and crafts from the Far East, works by Polish artists, French prints and other valuable objects, the collection of Feliks Jasieński – also known as Manggha – includes Gustav Vigeland’s sculpture which depicts a kissing couple.

14 December 201427 November 2015 Muzeum Narodowe w KrakowieA few words about...
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A few words about the stained glass windows

When visiting the Gallery of 20th-Century Polish Art in the NMK, we come across enormous drawings, measuring almost 4.5 and 7 meters, created in watercolour, gouache and pastel techniques. These monumental designs were authored by Stanisław Wyspiański and Józef Mehoffer.

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