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Museums of Wrocław and Lower Silesia

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Museums of Wrocław and Lower Silesia

From the National Museum building to a private villa with a mineral collection - an overview of the region's museums, divided into the great institutions of Wrocław, former industrial sites, regional museums in smaller towns and curious private collections.

The Ossolineum: How a library from Lwów reached Wrocław

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The Ossolineum: How a library from Lwów reached Wrocław

The Ossoliński National Institute operated in Lwów for over a hundred years before, after the war, only part of its collection, including the manuscript of "Pan Tadeusz", reached Wrocław.

Panorama of the Battle of Racławice - A Work That Survived Lwów and the War

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Panorama of the Battle of Racławice - A Work That Survived Lwów and the War

A gigantic painting created in Lwów for the centenary of the Kościuszko Uprising reached Wrocław in 1946, but visitors did not get to see it until almost four decades later.

Orange Alternative: How an underground protest movement gave Wrocław its dwarfs

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Orange Alternative: How an underground protest movement gave Wrocław its dwarfs

Before the dwarfs became Wrocław's tourist mascot, they were a weapon students used against censorship, painted exactly where the militia had painted over opposition slogans.

The Bronze Herd by Stare Jatki: The story of an unusual monument

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The Bronze Herd by Stare Jatki: The story of an unusual monument

Since 1242 this narrow street lived off the meat trade; today it is home to studios and galleries. Linking them is a group of bronze sculptures of farm animals, added to the ensemble over twenty years.

Chopin, Goethe, Churchill: famous spa guests of Lower Silesia

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Chopin, Goethe, Churchill: famous spa guests of Lower Silesia

Sixteen-year-old Chopin gave his first concerts away from home in Duszniki, and a hundred and twenty years later that visit gave rise to the oldest continuously running piano festival in the world.

Street art in Wrocław - from punk rebellion to today

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Street art in Wrocław - from punk rebellion to today

From the illegal paintings of the punk opposition in the 1980s to large-format murals commissioned by the city and resident communities - how Wrocław's street art scene has changed, and where to find its biggest concentrations today.

Wang Temple - how a 12th-century Norwegian church came to the Karkonosze

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Wang Temple - how a 12th-century Norwegian church came to the Karkonosze

A Norwegian stave church, eight hundred years old, now stands below Śnieżka. It's a story of a sale, a journey across half of Europe, and a Silesian bell tower added where the original never had one.

Churches of Lower Silesia: Gothic, Baroque and post-war layers of one architecture

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Churches of Lower Silesia: Gothic, Baroque and post-war layers of one architecture

Gothic parish churches, Baroque Cistercian abbeys, wooden churches of Protestant compromise and post-war Orthodox cathedrals in former German walls - in Lower Silesia, sacred architecture has changed worshippers more often than form.

Glass and crystal from Szklarska Poręba: from the Józefina glassworks to Julia

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Glass and crystal from Szklarska Poręba: from the Józefina glassworks to Julia

Before a brick glassworks was built in Szklarska Poręba, makeshift glass works wandered through the forests of the Karkonosze and the Izera Mountains. We look at how that tradition grew into the Józefina glassworks, known today as Julia.

Tadeusz Różewicz: the poet who became one with post-war Wrocław

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Tadeusz Różewicz: the poet who became one with post-war Wrocław

The author of Niepokój (Anxiety) and Kartoteka (The Card Index) lived in Wrocław for nearly fifty years, until his death in 2014. He was buried in the Karkonosze, by the Norwegian Wang Church in Karpacz.

Theatres and alternative stages of Wrocław

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Theatres and alternative stages of Wrocław

From the nineteenth-century building of the Wrocław Opera, through the experiment of Jerzy Grotowski's Laboratory Theatre, to stages now operating in a former brewery and a former railway station - the history of theatre in Wrocław is a series of rebuildings of the same institution.

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Everest: Druga strona

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