An Evening at the Museum" - a new series of educational workshops at the Dulag 121 Museum in Pruszków.

The Dulag 121 Museum invites adults to a unique series of educational and artistic evening workshops, "An Evening at the Museum", during which history intertwines with art. These meetings will provide an opportunity to learn more about the history of the Pruszków transit camp through the prism of creative and artistic activities. At the same time, it will be an opportunity to meet other people interested in this topic.

The first meeting will take place on Friday, 23 May, from 18:00 to 21:00 at 8a 3 Maja Street. The inspiration for joint work and reflection will be Jerzy Kazimierz Blancard's sketch 'This is where Warsaw passed', referring to the dramatic fate of the civilian population after the Warsaw Uprising. Blancard, a Pruszków resident, architect and designer of the Warsaw underground, was an extremely colourful character, and his work will become the starting point for learning about the history of the Dulag 121 camp.

During the workshop, participants will not only learn about the artist and his works, but will also learn the linocut technique. Together they will attempt to artistically recreate the grey poplar tree - a symbolic witness to history that survived the times of the camp and still towers over its former site. This tree, immortalised in archive photographs, is the centrepiece of a monument commemorating the exodus of Varsovians. It was here that the railway ramp was located, from which prisoners were sent to concentration camps, to forced labour in the Reich, or to other locations in the General Government.

The workshop will be led by Ewa Gronostajska - a landscape painter and creator of artistic textiles, for many years connected with the Cultural Centre in Brwinów. Her works are inspired by nature, the play of light and plant forms, which she translates into poetic artistic compositions.

You are cordially invited to attend - this is an extraordinary opportunity to touch on a difficult but important history through art.