The house of the Szołayski family was built in Krakow in the 14th century and extended in the 19th and 20th centuries. It was willed to the National Museum in Krakow by Włodzimiera and Adam Szołayski in 1904, and made available for use in 1928. Initially (from 1934 onwards) it housed the Feliks ‘Manggha’ Jasieński Department, and after WWII the Gallery of Medieval Art was installed there.
In 2003, following a long-drawn-out renovation project financed by the Public Committee for the Renovation of the Monuments of Krakow, the building became the seat of the Stanisław Wyspiański Museum, which has been in existence since 1983 and which until 2002 was located at 9 Kanonicza St.
The Museum is devoted to Stanisław Wyspiański and Feliks ‘Manggha’ Jasieński. The collection of Wyspiański’s drawings, sketches and designs as well as biographical material and documentation are accessible for research purposes. The ground-floor showrooms are intended for temporary shows, mainly relating to the period of Young Poland. This part of the Museum’s activity was inaugurated by the exhibition entitled As Time Goes By, As Nights Go By, Or From The National Museum To The Mad Cabaret, which recalled the Zielony Balonik cabaret.
A wheelchair ramp and lift make visiting Stanisław Wyspiański Museum possible for people with disabilities.
The works of Stanisław Wyspiański
Researchers may have access to the Museum’s collection of Wyspiański’s pastels, drawings, designs, biographical material. Documentation and the artist’s book collection.
A cycle of meetings with widely-recognised experts in Polish Modernism are organised at the Museum under the title 'Wyspiański And His Surrounds'.
This Branch is described in detail in the visitor’s guidebook The Stanisław Wyspiański Museum: Branch of the National Museum in Cracow (available in Polish and English).
Wyspiański’s monumental works were presented in the catalogue accompanying the exhibition Stanisław Wyspiański. Opus Magnum.
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