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The Lancut Castle Museum
Muzeum - Zamek w Łańcucie
ul. Zamkowa 1, 37-100 Łańcut
Director: mgr Wit Karol Wojtowicz
tel. (+48 17) 225 20 08, 225 31 32
fax (+48 17) 225 20 12
www.zamek-lancut.pl

Opening hours: Closed Mondays, public holidays and during the mid-May music festival; open February-April and October-November, 10am-2pm; May-September, Tuesday-Saturday, 9am-2:30 pm, Sundays, 9am-2pm.

Erected in the seventeenth century, the lancut Castle has been re-designed a number of times. The buildings and the park now have the late nineteenth and early twentieth century appearance, whereas the interiors represent a variety of styles, from Baroque to eclectic to Art Nouveau. The interiors were opened to the public in the inter-war period, and since 1944 the Castle has been Poland's largest residential museum. The drawing and dining rooms, the ball room, private and guest suites have been furnished and decorated with works of art and crafts matching the architecture and including silver, Dresden, Vienna and Delft china, Nieborow faience, and Polish glass. There is a collection of seventeenth through nineteenth century clocks and of old music instruments. Oriental artefacts, such as bronze, lacquer and china items as well as textiles are displayed in the Turkish and Chinese Rooms. The Ground Floor Corridor and the 1st Floor White Corridor house a gallery of the Potocki and Lubomirski family portraits, while the Red Corridor contains a gallery of West European painting. The southern wing of the Castle is home to the sculpture gallery with Antonio Canova's precious marble statue showing Henryk Lubomirski as Eros. The beauty of ceremonial rooms is emphasized by the famous inlaid floors. The whole assembly, including the Castle, Greenhouse, Manege, Stables and a Coach House, the Romantic Castle and the Gardener's Cottage, is surrounded by a large park with an Italian garden in front of the eastern wall of the Castle.

The Coach House is one of lancut's prime attractions. Its collection of more than seventy horse-drawn carriages from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, including ceremonial and travelling carriages and a variety of coaches is unique in Europe. The exhibition is complemented by a display of ornate harnesses and other accessories.

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40 short documentary films from 11 countries have been qualified for competition in the 13th International Film Festival "Off Cinema". The Festival starts on November 18, 2009, in Poznań.
The former headquarters of the Polish United Workers' Party's Central Comitee, a monumetal building located in downtown Warsaw, near the de Gaulle traffic circle, was on November 16, 2009, inscribed on the list of registered monuments of the Masovian Voivodeship.
On November 13, 2009, at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław, the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, Bohdan Zdrojewski, signed an agreement, according to which the Ministry shall co-fund the construction of the Centre of Applied Arts and Innovation Centre at the Academy of Fine Arts.
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