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Historical Museum in Wroclaw
Division: Museum of the city of Wroclaw
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Historical Museum in Wroclaw
Muzeum Historyczne - Pałac Królewski
Oddział Muzeum Miejskiego Wrocławia
ul. Kazimierza Wielkiego 35, 50-077 Wrocław
dr Maciej Łagiewski
tel. (+48 71) 391 69 40, 391 69 41
www.mmw.pl

Previously housed in the Town Hall and Cloth Hall (Sukiennice), the Museum of the City of Wroclaw moved in 1999 to the SpŠtgen Palace, a beautiful late Baroque building with classical details, which was made into a royal residence by Frederick the Great in 1719, after having purchased it from Baron Heinrich Gottfried SpŠtgen.

The museum's holdings, which tell the town's history from the Middle Ages to the present, are divided into several sections. The Historical Section contains archival documents related to the town's history, including a collection of nineteenth and twentieth century posters and handbills, negatives documenting major events of the twentieth century, banners of Polish social and political organisations from 1945-1990, examples of material culture and crafts, such as sign-boards of Wroclaw companies from the sixteenth through the twentieth centuries, and Wroclaw cartography of the same period; the Iconographic Section has nineteenth and twentieth century paintings of Wroclaw, sixteenth through twentieth century drawings and prints of Wroclaw, including a collection of lithographic plates, a collection of sixteenth through twentieth century postcards with views of various towns, archival negatives and photographs documenting the town's history, as well as porcelain and glass with views of Wroclaw; the Theatre Section contains archival records of Wroclaw theatres, a collection of theatre posters and set designs and a collection of costumes used in plays performed in the city's theatres since 1945; the Documentary Photography Section shows Wroclaw's urban growth through photographs.

Permanent exhibition: Mediaeval Wroclaw.

Following a comprehensive renovation, now underway, SpŠtgen Palace will re-open as the home of the Historical Museum with an exhibition titled Wroclaw's Millennium.

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March 9-21, "Summer at Nohant" / "Lato w Nohant", directed by Hanna Bondarewska, the original play by Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, translated by Celina Wieniewska - Mead Theater Lab at Flashpoint, Washington, D.C.
March 12 - "The Pianist and the Diplomat": an evening of music and history exploring the life of Ignacy Jan Paderewski - Lindner Family Commons, Washington D.C.
March 13 and 14 - Honoring Poland's Music Legacy: Penderecki's U.S. premiere of "Chaconne - In Memoriam John Paul II" and Szymanowski's "Symphonie Concertante" and "Stabat Mater" - Mandeville Auditorium - University of California, San Diego.
March 14 - Ewa Pobłocka will perform a recital of Chopin's music - National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
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March 26 and 27 - Paderewski Symphony Orchestra: Celebration of Chopin's 200th Anniversary - Chicago Symphony Center.
March 27 - Chopin Anniversary Marathon: faculty and graduate students performs a variety of solo and chamber music repertoire - Alfred Newman Recital Hall, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
March 28 - Lira Ensemble: Chopin Bicentennial Concert - Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, Northwestern University, Chicago.
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Yale University Press published "Fellowship of Poets" by Irena Grudzińska-Gross. The book tells the story of a close friendship between two Noble Prize laureates from Eastern Europe, Czesław Miłosz and Joseph Brodski.
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