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The Boleslaw Prus Museum in Naleczow
Division of the Lublin Museum
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The Boleslaw Prus Museum in Naleczow
Muzeum Bolesława Prusa
Oddział Muzeum Lubelskiego
al. Małachowskiego 3, 24-140 Nałęczów
Director: mgr Bogumiła Wartacz
tel. (+48 81) 501 45 52
www.zamek-lublin.pl
Opening hours: Open daily except Mondays and days following public holidays, 10am-3pm.

The museum, which opened in 1961, occupies two rooms in the Malachowski palace, which was built in the years 1751-1773, and designed by Ferdynand Nax. In 1878, the palace was rebuilt as a sanatorium. After having been damaged during the Second World War, the building was restored during the years 1958-1960 and returned to its original design (including the ball room, which is considered to be one of the most beautiful examples of Rococo architecture in Poland). The palace is surrounded by a park founded by Stanislaw Malachowski, and is known as the "Salon of Naleczow".

Boleslaw Prus (pseudonym of Aleksander Glowacki), the preeminent Polish Positivist writer and chronicler of Warsaw, lived and worked in the rooms now occupied by the museum during his visits at the sanatorium during the years 1882-1910.

A permanent exhibition outlines Prus's life and work. Various documents, photographs of family, friends and colleagues are on display in chronological order, as are personal mementoes, private and official correspondence, manuscripts and various Polish editions (including the first ones) of his works, as well as of their translations abroad (primarily "Lalka / The Doll", "Emancypantki / The Suffragettes" and "Faraon / Pharaon", which was even translated into Esperanto. There are also materials about the theatrical and film adaptations of Prus's works, the books from his collection that have survived, anniversary medals and portraits of the writer. The biographical exhibition is complemented by photographs and mementos related to the history of Naleczow, and to Prus's ties to that city and region.

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