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miniatura Virtual Małopolska Virtual Małopolska 'Virtual Małopolska' is a digitalisation project implemented by the Małopolska Institute of Culture under the Regional Operational Programme for Małopolskie Voievodship 2014–2020. For the purpose of this project, the Institute will collaborate with twenty Małopolska museum institutions in order to perform 2D and 3D digitalisation of ca. 1.500 exhibits... »
miniatura ‘Kept for posterity. Mementos and events in connection with John Paul II’ ‘Kept for posterity. Mementos and events in connection with John Paul II’ ‘Kept for posterity. Mementos and events in connection with John Paul II’ is the title given by us to remembrance of the 100th birthday anniversary of Karol Wojtyła. Therefore, we open up our collection and present papal mementos. We also encourage you to watch the archival footage of the visit paid by John Paul II to the Jagiellonian University Museum on 8 June 1997 on the Museum's YouTube channel and the Media Maius webpage... »
miniatura Virtual Night of Museums 2020 Virtual Night of Museums 2020 On the 15th of May at 19:00 begins our first adventure with the Virtual Night of Museums. Although we will not meet in the atmospheric Collegium Maius courtyard, we will show you which famous politician who recently celebrated their birthday once visited the Jagiellonian University Museum. Therefore, we inaugurate a series of archival footage documenting the visits paid by distinguished persons of science, culture and politics to our museum. We will not enter the interactive exhibition located in historical lecture rooms, but we will show you the way to carry out your own physical experiments, including dispersion of light. The youngest of us will learn to stage a shadow play with use of cardboard boxes, paper and sticks... »
miniatura Museum poster exhibition Museum poster exhibition For the first time in its history, the Jagiellonian University Museum presents an exhibition of museum posters. This exhibition was put on display in the Collegium Maius cellars before the outbreak of the Covid-19 epidemic and will be available again after the museum reopens. The presented collection consists of 60 posters from the 1981-2014 period which document temporary exhibitions created by the Jagiellonian University Museum and other institutions. The featured works show a multitude of techniques, including paper-cut posters, ink compositions, digital graphics and printing. The exhibition recollects the most interesting museum events based on the domestic collection and exhibits lent from external sources... »
miniatura Kraków Night of Museums cancelled Kraków Night of Museums cancelled Dear Visitors, with regret we inform you that the KRAKÓW NIGHT OF MUSEUMS event, planned to take place on 15/16 May, 2020, has been cancelled. A mass gathering cannot take place in the planned form due to the current epidemic emergency. We still remember the International Museum Day of 18 May and we will celebrate it in a new form... »