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7. Kraków Museum Night
Publication date: 2010-05-01
14 May 2010 (from 7pm to 1pm)
And Again Such a Night…
Friday afternoon: crowded Kraków-bound trains, groups of young people meeting in various parts of the city, families pouring out onto the streets, record busters planning the optimal routes – it’s Museum Night. On this night, the museums are opening their doors (from 7pm to 1pm). Each of them is preparing special attractions, and at the ticket desk it'll be possible to buy commemorative coins for a token zloty.
The programme of what is already the seventh Krakow Museum Night (14 May) will be based on the motto “Greater Kraków 1910-2010”. The museums will be reminding us that the beginnings of modern Kraków – which differs from the older version in terms both of surface area and this Polish city’s population – stretch back to 1910, when the decision was taken to gradually incorporate the neighbouring administrative districts. It was under the “Greater Kraków” banner that these activities were conducted. With time, mainly in the interwar period, the incorporated land took on the character of a large city.
A photography exhibition presenting the idea, which surfaced at the beginning of the 20th century, to extend the city has been prepared by the History of Photography Museum and will be available for viewing at the Polish Aviation Museum. The National Museum in Kraków will also be remembering that Kraków Wasn’t Built in a Day (like the museum) and will be inviting visitors to interactively explore the Main Building – one of the monuments to the great interwar extension. The following decades left their stamp (often painful) on the city – at Inwalidów Square it is still possible to descend to an old German bunker. This is just one of a whole network of such structures buried at Krowodrza that are being gradually restored. For almost 60 years, Kraków has also been Nowa Huta – the Historical Museum of the City of Kraków is inviting people to visit the exhibition at its Nowa Huta branch devoted to the difficult history of modern day church construction in this district.
Participating in this year’s event are a total of 21 of Kraków’s museums as well as the Niepołomice Museum and Kraków Saltworks Museum in Wieliczka. The inauguration will be at 6pm at the Jagiellonian University Museum.
Finally, a surprise: for several hours on this May evening the area beneath Kraków's Market Square, the venue for a special museum that is being created, will be opened up. Visits every 10 minutes from 7pm to 1am in 30-person groups.
Source: www.karnet.krakow.pl
