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EVENTS - 02.2009
Computers witha sense of smell and other attractions
No other science center in the world has attractions like these. At the Warsaw Centrum Nauki Kopernik (Copernicus Science Center) there will be, for instance, computers with a sense of smell and a cosmic tunnel. In a year and a half, Centrum Nauki Kopernik, which is being built with great momentum along the Vistula, will open an exhibit called „Galeria dla młodzieży” (Gallery for Young People). Thanks to this exposition, Varsovians will be able to steer robots, visit a cosmic tunnel, or make a professional film for YouTube. It is the first equipment of its kind in the world. The exposition will be created with teenagers and young adults in mind (17-25 years old). The opening of the exhibit is planned for the second half of 2010. Copernicus Science Center will undoubtedly become one of the biggest attractions in Warsaw.
A Museum of Communism underground
Lech Wałęsa has become the godfather of the Museum of Communism. A 7,500 square meter glassed-in museum commemorating the system that brought so much evil to the world will be built beneath the square in front of the Palace of Culture and Science. The Museum will be aimed mainly at young people. It will show the character of communism and its awful, enslaving ideology in a contemporary, multi-media style. The creator of the design of the museum is Czesław Bielecki, an outstanding architect who was also an oppositionist during communist times. The expositions of the museum will not only be underground but also on the outside. The Warsaw Authorities liked the design very much. It will cost an estimated 40 million zloty. Will they find that much money in the city budget?
Warsaw a bit different
„Citydoping” – that is the name of a subject guide (created by Robert Przepiórski) of 100 interesting places in our city. Last year, two million tourists visited Warsaw. This guide was made with them in mind. It doesn’t include tourist attractions like the Royal Castle, £azienki Park, Wilanów or the National Museum, since, according to the author, they promote themselves just fine. These 100 places in Warsaw were divided into 6 categories. On the list there are interesting hotels, like Castle Inn or Oki Doki in the Old Town, as well as coffee-shops like „Kafka” or „Szczotki Pędzle”, the „Boston Port” restaurant with its famous fish soup, the Konsekwentny Theater just past the Barbakan gate in the Old Town, five clubs which are located in the courtyard of an old tenant building at 11 Listopada Street, at number 22, or the shop at ul. Okólnik with unique clothes designed especially for it, or the shop Magazyn Praga at „Koneser” on Ząbkowska Street, and many, many other enchanted places that are worth visiting.
When Warsaw came alive
At Dom Spotkań z Historią (the History Meeting House) at 20 Karowa Street you will be able to see an exhibit (on until the 15th of February), which presents life in Warsaw in 1947-1948. The exhibit is comprised of 170 unique photographs and a hundred slides which were taken in the destroyed, post-war Warsaw. They were taken by professional photo-reporters from the Polish Press Agency (PAP). Their cameras immortalized nearly all aspects of life in those days. In these pictures, you can see the city and its inhabitants, who in spite of it all tried to live normally – there are people living among the rubble, crowded trams with passengers hanging off of the sides, lines to the shops, and the reconstruction of bridges. In all, the exhibition is a very interesting record of a particular chapter in the history of Poland’s capital.
Poles are creating a Stalin museum
The Warsaw Rising Museum has signed an agreement with the Ministry of Culture in the Republic of Georgia, in which it committed to building a museum of the former leader of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin, in his home town of Gori. In the opinion of the director of the Warsaw museum, Jan Ołdakowski, the most difficult thing will be undermining the Stalin cult that exists among the citizens of the town, who claim that although Stalin was in fact a murderer he is also one of the most famous people in the world. „It is a certain kind of pride, which disregards the moral dimension,” says director Ołdakowski. The Polish concept for the Stalin museum concerns showing the lies of communism and its inhuman propaganda. The monument to Stalin which presently stands in the middle of the city will be located in the closed grounds of the museum.
The whole world in one place
120 years ago, the first Museum of Ethnography in Poland was established, which today is located in a lovely building on Kredytowa Street. During the Second World War, all of the museum’s collections were destroyed. After the war, they were systematically replaced. Today, the museum presents works of folk art and regional art from different parts of the world and also promotes foreign cultures in a modern way, in the form of organizing concerts, seminars, and meetings with publishers. It promotes itself using the slogan „Cały świat w jednym miejscu” (The whole world in one place). The newest, anniversary exhibition at Państwowe Muzeum Etnograficzne (the State Ethonographic Museum) is titled „Zwykłe i Niezwykłe, czyli fascynujące kolekcje” (The Usual and the Unusual – fascinating collections) and is advertised with a very humorous poster (in the photo).
No other science center in the world has attractions like these. At the Warsaw Centrum Nauki Kopernik (Copernicus Science Center) there will be, for instance, computers with a sense of smell and a cosmic tunnel. In a year and a half, Centrum Nauki Kopernik, which is being built with great momentum along the Vistula, will open an exhibit called „Galeria dla młodzieży” (Gallery for Young People). Thanks to this exposition, Varsovians will be able to steer robots, visit a cosmic tunnel, or make a professional film for YouTube. It is the first equipment of its kind in the world. The exposition will be created with teenagers and young adults in mind (17-25 years old). The opening of the exhibit is planned for the second half of 2010. Copernicus Science Center will undoubtedly become one of the biggest attractions in Warsaw.
A Museum of Communism underground
Lech Wałęsa has become the godfather of the Museum of Communism. A 7,500 square meter glassed-in museum commemorating the system that brought so much evil to the world will be built beneath the square in front of the Palace of Culture and Science. The Museum will be aimed mainly at young people. It will show the character of communism and its awful, enslaving ideology in a contemporary, multi-media style. The creator of the design of the museum is Czesław Bielecki, an outstanding architect who was also an oppositionist during communist times. The expositions of the museum will not only be underground but also on the outside. The Warsaw Authorities liked the design very much. It will cost an estimated 40 million zloty. Will they find that much money in the city budget?
Warsaw a bit different
„Citydoping” – that is the name of a subject guide (created by Robert Przepiórski) of 100 interesting places in our city. Last year, two million tourists visited Warsaw. This guide was made with them in mind. It doesn’t include tourist attractions like the Royal Castle, £azienki Park, Wilanów or the National Museum, since, according to the author, they promote themselves just fine. These 100 places in Warsaw were divided into 6 categories. On the list there are interesting hotels, like Castle Inn or Oki Doki in the Old Town, as well as coffee-shops like „Kafka” or „Szczotki Pędzle”, the „Boston Port” restaurant with its famous fish soup, the Konsekwentny Theater just past the Barbakan gate in the Old Town, five clubs which are located in the courtyard of an old tenant building at 11 Listopada Street, at number 22, or the shop at ul. Okólnik with unique clothes designed especially for it, or the shop Magazyn Praga at „Koneser” on Ząbkowska Street, and many, many other enchanted places that are worth visiting.
When Warsaw came alive
At Dom Spotkań z Historią (the History Meeting House) at 20 Karowa Street you will be able to see an exhibit (on until the 15th of February), which presents life in Warsaw in 1947-1948. The exhibit is comprised of 170 unique photographs and a hundred slides which were taken in the destroyed, post-war Warsaw. They were taken by professional photo-reporters from the Polish Press Agency (PAP). Their cameras immortalized nearly all aspects of life in those days. In these pictures, you can see the city and its inhabitants, who in spite of it all tried to live normally – there are people living among the rubble, crowded trams with passengers hanging off of the sides, lines to the shops, and the reconstruction of bridges. In all, the exhibition is a very interesting record of a particular chapter in the history of Poland’s capital.
Poles are creating a Stalin museum
The Warsaw Rising Museum has signed an agreement with the Ministry of Culture in the Republic of Georgia, in which it committed to building a museum of the former leader of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin, in his home town of Gori. In the opinion of the director of the Warsaw museum, Jan Ołdakowski, the most difficult thing will be undermining the Stalin cult that exists among the citizens of the town, who claim that although Stalin was in fact a murderer he is also one of the most famous people in the world. „It is a certain kind of pride, which disregards the moral dimension,” says director Ołdakowski. The Polish concept for the Stalin museum concerns showing the lies of communism and its inhuman propaganda. The monument to Stalin which presently stands in the middle of the city will be located in the closed grounds of the museum.
The whole world in one place
120 years ago, the first Museum of Ethnography in Poland was established, which today is located in a lovely building on Kredytowa Street. During the Second World War, all of the museum’s collections were destroyed. After the war, they were systematically replaced. Today, the museum presents works of folk art and regional art from different parts of the world and also promotes foreign cultures in a modern way, in the form of organizing concerts, seminars, and meetings with publishers. It promotes itself using the slogan „Cały świat w jednym miejscu” (The whole world in one place). The newest, anniversary exhibition at Państwowe Muzeum Etnograficzne (the State Ethonographic Museum) is titled „Zwykłe i Niezwykłe, czyli fascynujące kolekcje” (The Usual and the Unusual – fascinating collections) and is advertised with a very humorous poster (in the photo).
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Information published at 3 February 2009