The son of General Stanisław Maczek, commander of the 1st Armoured Division during the Second World War, Professor Andrzej Maczek died in Sheffield, England, on Sunday 16 July at the age of 86. He devoted many years to nurturing the memory of his father and the soldiers serving under his command. Despite his advanced age,…
Thanks to the long-standing efforts of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage and the personal involvement of the Deputy Prime Minister/Minister of Culture and National Heritage Prof. Piotr Gliński, a series of seven paintings by members of St Luke’s Brotherhood and four tapestries by Mieczysław Szymański have returned to Poland after 83 years. The…
On 24 June, on the eve of the Polish Community in Hungary Day, the permanent exhibition Poles and Hungarians: 1000 Years of Shared History was opened. The festive event was attended by Robert Kostro, Director of the Polish History Museum; Piotr Piętka, Director of the Polish Research Institute and Museum in Budapest; Katarzyna Ratajczak-Sowa, Chargé…
On June 1, a ceremonial transfer of General Stanisław Maczek’s uniform to the Polish History Museum’s collection took place at the PHM’s temporary seat. The meeting was attended by General Maczek’s granddaughter Karolina Maczek-Skillen and PHM Director Robert Kostro. After extensive efforts, the Polish History Museum has been enriched with extraordinary exhibits: a uniform, a…
Thanks to the long-standing efforts of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage and the personal involvement of the Deputy Prime Minister/Minister of Culture and National Heritage Professor Piotr Gliński, this summer – after 83 years – a series of seven paintings by members of St Luke’s Brotherhood and four tapestries by Mieczysław Szymański will…
The year 2021 was announced by the Sejm of the Republic of Poland as the Year of Cyprian Kamil Norwid. The year 2022 is, in turn, the Year of Polish Romanticism. Both of these facts became a pretext to find mainly Polish and Parisian ‘places of Norwid’ and an attempt to answer the question: what…
