Introduction “The Open Collection” is not only the presentation of the recent acquisitions of the Museum of Contemporary Art – Branch of the National Museum in Wrocław, but also an invitation to reflect on the process of creating a public art collection. We reveal the stages of the process of which the museum visitor …
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16 October 2022 – 15 January 2023 Curator of the exhibition: Anna Chmielarz The exhibition aims to show the evolution and diversity of collage (its forms, techniques, and materials), continually used by artists for a whole variety of purposes. Visitors can view works created over the last 150 years by prominent Polish and international artists, …
14 November 2020 – 28 March 2021 Curator of the exhibition: Małgorzata Santarek The National Museum in Wrocław systematically works to expand its collections, with new acquisitions financed from the Museum’s budget and also supported by dedicated grants from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. In the last two years 2019-2020, the new acquisitions …
The Polish contemporary art collection of the National Museum in Wrocław is one of the most interesting and most valuable in Poland. It numbers over 20,000 artefacts spanning such artistic disciplines as painting, print, drawing, sculpture, glass, ceramics and photography, as well as the environment and conceptual works, documentation of happenings and video art. The …
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Contact ➸ Collection catalogues ➸ Guidebooks ➸ Other publications➸ Publications for children ➸ The history of publishing at the National Museum in Wrocław can be traced back to the very first years of the Museum’s existence. Already in 1950 the then Muzeum Śląskie (which opened to the public in July 1948 as the State Museum …
