Touching a painting – Malczewski, Szymborska, Antoniszczak

The new exhibition ‘Touching a painting – Malczewski, Szymborska, Antoniszczak' is open.

Yesterday, visitors in the Museum were able to see the ‘Rusałki' painting cycle by Malczewski and the contextual descriptions of the paintings written by Róża Książek-Czerwińska, as well as tangible reproductions created by Lech Kolasinski. The special mp3 players with audio description of Malczewski's works were also available. In the following rooms, one can see the Nobel Prize medal of Wisława Szymborska from the JU Museum's Second treasury and its tangible replica.

The last display room features a model of the Collegium Maius building and tangible adaptations of selected exhibits from the JU Museum, created by design students from the Pedagogical University in Cracow, supervised by Malwina Antoniszczak.

Visitors were also able to see some chosen objects from the atelier of the renowned Polish artists, experimental animation director, designer and inventor Julian Antoniszczak, whose artistic work also touched the subject of sight impairment. In 1983 he created the scanning chropograh, which can be seen in the exhibition, an optical-mechanical device which can be used to create tangible reproductions.