Draw, cut, reflect - illustrate like a real printmaker! During the open workshop we will design and then engrave linocuts, i.e. drawings on a special linoleum plate. Pencils and chisels will be at work! Everyone will make their own original design and print it themselves on an antique printing press. Activate your imagination - create, play and find out....
Lecture "Point des rêveries - an ominous anachronism".
The words 'Point des rêveries' (Down with your dreams) are uttered in November Night. Why did Stanisław Wyspiański have this phrase sounded at the outbreak of the uprising against Russia on a day that brings dreams to life? Stanisław Wyspiański sketched the scene taking place at the Variety Theatre as early as December 1901.The author of November Night was interested in what was being staged ...
Adult evenings Discover Samsung "Poisons"
Without children. At times convenient to you. Once a month Copernicus opens to adults only. Join us for an Evening for Adults. We have interactive exhibits in the Exhibitions, performances in the Robotic Theatre, shows in the Planetarium and the High Voltage Theatre, as well as meetings with experts on the topic of the evening. Cicut Poisons,...
Exhibition "Greetings from Jerusalem Avenue"
Greetings from Jerozolimskie Avenue is a public project in the city space. Its main element is an artificial date palm: Phoenix Canariensis, which stands in Warsaw at the intersection of: Jerozolimskie Avenue and Nowy Świat, on the islet of the de Gaulle roundabout. Greetings from Jerusalem Avenue is an idea taken from language, from storytelling, from an attempt to describe a journey....
Exhibition "Destruction and Reconstruction of the Royal Castle in Warsaw"
It is worth starting your visit to the Royal Castle with the multimedia historical exhibition located in the cellars. By means of an emotionally engaging narrative, preserved archival materials and modern technology, the exhibition brings closer the colourful and turbulent history of the building, which for Poles is a symbol of independence. Without this knowledge, it is impossible to understand the cultural phenomenon of the Royal Castle in Warsaw. The exhibition...
Exhibition "The Order of Things"
Feel like an ethnographer! For the first time in the history of Polish museology, each visitor can enter the catalogued world of the museum's collection storehouse, normally invisible and hidden behind the scenes. "The Order of Things" shows how many treasures the museum's facilities hide and in what a clever system they are organised. In huge numbers, but in...
Exhibition "Wolski Cabinet"
A permanent element of the Wola Museum's exhibition is the Wolski Cabinet. It is a casket in which the multithreaded history of the capital is enclosed. It consists of socio-political, cultural and personal stories. The entire narrative has been divided into fifteen issues that best reflect the character and history of Wola. Corresponding to them in the visual layer are selected photographs, objects...
Exhibition "The Royal Gallery of Graphics of Stanisław August"
Creation of the royal print collection The beginnings of the royal collection date back to 1748, when the young Poniatowski purchased his first painting during a stay in Brussels. It was then that his fascination with the works of Rubens and van Dyck was born, giving rise to a passion for collecting[1]. Even as king, he did not limit himself to collecting paintings,...
Exhibition "Royal Picture Gallery"
The paintings, most of which, certainly in the Picture Gallery on the ground floor of the Palace on the Isle, were framed in identical carved and gilded frames with the royal numeral in the cartouche, were, according to the custom common in the 18th century, hung in the form of so-called wallpaper densely filling the walls. Arranged symmetrically, in rows, often with...