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The Museum of Art in Łódź - ms²
The new department of the Museum of Art - ms² opened its premises on 20th November 2008. The new ArtZone is placed in the revitalized “high weaving mill” - in the factory complex built by Izrael Poznański. The permanent exhibition is presented on the area of 3000 m² and it is located on three floors of the building. Ms² hosts one of the richest collections of 20th and 21st century art in Europe, mostly the experimental art. The heart of the collection is the International Collection of Modern Art of the “a.r.” group. It is a phenomenon on a global scale, as it has been initiated by the artists themselves and formed as a result of a joint effort to act beyond and against any boundaries. Collection of Modern Art is a cross-section of the avant-garde trends and tendencies of the late 1920’s, with a unique presentation of abstractionists such as Hans Arp, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Theo van Doesburg, Jean Gorin, Jean Helion, Vilmos Huszar, Henryk Stażewski and Georges Vantongerloo. However, it also exhibits Cubism (Fernand Léger, Louis Marcoussis), Futurism (Enrico Prampolini), Dadaism (Kurt Schwitters), Surrealism (Max Ernst, Kurt Seligmann), Formism (Leon Chwistek, Tytus Czyżewski), “Pure Form” (Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz), Constructivism (Aleksander Rafałowski, Andrzej Pronaszko) or Unism (Władysław Strzemiński). In ms² we can see avant-garde works from a new perspective. The ms2 exhibition presents an artwork not only as a memento of the elapsed time, but also as an occurrence and a statement that is important for us today.
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THE Museum Of History Of The City Of Łódź
The Museum of History of the City of Łódź is housed in one of the most impressive buildings in Łódź, the former Izrael Poznański’s Palace, built at the turn of the 19th century. Decorative interior design and richly ornamented facades were to emphasize the power of Izrael Poznański. In museum visitors can admire exhibits documenting the tradition of industrial, multicultural and multi-religious Łódź. The museum also presents silhouettes of important persons related to Łódź: Władysław Reymont, Julian Tuwim, Jerzy Kosiński, Artur Dedecius, Artur Rubinstein and Aleksander Tansman.
www.poznanskipalace.muzeum-lodz.pl
The Central Museum of Textiles in Ludwik Geyer’s White Factory
The Central Museum of Textiles is set in the Ludwik Geyer’s White Factory, one of the oldest historic monuments of industrial architecture in Łódź. This complex of classicistic buildings used to house the first local mechanical spinning and weaving mills. The Central Museum of Textiles is the oldest and the biggest museum in this part of Europe, which collects items linked with the textile manufacturing process, starting with raw materials, through products (textiles produced industrially and executed with the use of artistic techniques) to garments.
In the Museum you can admire Poland’s largest collection of contemporary artistic textiles. You can find works by: M. Abakanowicz, W. Sadley, J. Owidzka, S. Popawski, J. Rudzka-Habisiak, admire textile tools and machinery. In Central Museum of Textiles you can also visit a unique Heritage Park of Wooden Architecture.
more information: www.muzeumwlokiennictwa.pl
The Museum Of Art In Łódź - Herbst Palace
Museum is located in a residence of the Herbst Family, which was built in the 19th century, and it is surrounded by a historic garden. Museum’s collection consist of early Polish art and early foreign art. Collection of Polish art contains number of extraordinary works of Polish painters, especially from the 19th century and turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. Among them there are a few works recognized as masterpieces of Polish painting, i.e. “Portrait of the Artist’s Mother” by Henryk Rodakowski, “Napoleon on Horseback” by Piotr Michałowski, “Sleeping Mietek” by Stanisław Wyspiański, and also one of the earliest historical paintings by Jan Matejko “Jan III Sobieski in Częstochowa”.
Collection of early foreign art consists of paintings, drawings, prints and sculpture dated from the 16th to the beginning of the 19th centuries. We can find works by such artists as Reinier de la Haye, Nicolaes Maes, Giuseppe Recco and Norbert Grund. The Museum also holds an interesting group of Russian paintings of the 2nd half of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries, with paintings by Ilya E. Riepin, Konstantin Korovin and Ivan K. Ayvazovsky.
Heritage Park of Wooden Architecture in Łódź
Heritage Park of Wooden Architecture was officially opened on the 29th September 2008. It was designed by Anita Luniak and Teresa Mromlińska. The open-air museum is designed to replicate a typical Łódź street of the 1820s. On both sides of the street there are workman’s homes and workshops, a historical church dating from 1848 from Nowosolna and Art Nouveau summer house from Ruda Pabianicka.
The Museum of Cinematography in Łódź
The Museum of Cinematography in Łódź was opened in 1986 and is unique in Poland. The museum is set in a 19th century mansion house which belonged to one of the most prominent local German industrialists, Karol Scheibler. The palace was rebuilt in 1886-1888 in the form of the present neo-renaissance style. Situated in the historic Źródliska park, next to the extensive former factory complex and workers' estate, it exemplifies the city's multicultural past and its former power as a centre of the textile industry. The quiet harmonious facade of the building is in sharp contrast to the richness of the eclectic interiors. The Museum collects a variety of props which present the history of Polish cinema. The Museum also organizes the Festival of Film Music and The Media Festival “A Man in Danger”.
more information: www.kinomuzeum.pl
The “Dętka” Canal Museum
This is industrial tourism at its best, allowing visitors to Łódź to penetrate the earths core and visit the sewers that lie below. Designed by William Heerlein Lindley, and put into operation by Stefan Skrzywin, this red brick subterranean reservoir was originally opened in 1926, serving the original purpose to clean and purify the sewage produced by the citizens. It was finally shut down in the 1970s and allowed to gather rats and damp in equal measure. Reopened in 2008, the Dętka has now been fully restored and it presents photographs and documents connected with construction of sewers in Łódź.
www.poznanskipalace.muzeum-lodz.pl
The Musuem Of Local Transport In Łódź
The Museum of Local Transport in Łódź was opened in 2006. The Museum hosts rich collection of old photographs, documents, maps, punches, tickets, conductor’s uniforms, timetables, tram equipment. Visitors can also admire historic trams and buses, unique carriages and snowplows, which illustrate evolution of public transport in Łódź.
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