TRAVELERT: Krakow Concert and Event Alerts

Also this year you have a chance to visit Krakow museums at night, althought it might be impossible to see the Lady with an Ermine

Event start at 7pm when the line of 20 antique cars from Municipal Engineering Museum  will arrive to the MOCAK Museum (they start from the Market Square).

To get in you have to buy a coin for 1 pln or a ticket printed especially for this day. It’s for free for some places you suppose to reserve free ticket earlier  (f.e. to see Lady with an Ermine, for  Wawel Castle the number of people will be limited, also Schindler’s Factory,  Underground of the Market Squere, Salt Mine and Collegium Maius Museum), queue might be long, but it worth trying.

Three special lines od buses (N1, N2, N3) can deliver you to some further places, you only need to have with you musuem coin!

List of Museums participating:

Cricoteka
Muzeum Akademii Sztuk Pięknych
Muzeum Archeologiczne
Muzeum Archidiecezjalne Kardynała Karola Wojtyły
Muzeum Armii Krajowej
Muzeum Etnograficzne im. Seweryna Udzieli
Muzeum Farmacji Collegium Medicum
Muzeum Geologiczne AGH
Muzeum Geologiczne UJ
Muzeum Geologiczne PAN
Muzeum Historii Fotografii im. Walerego Rzewuskiego
Muzeum Historyczne Miasta Krakowa
Muzeum Inżynierii Miejskiej
Muzeum Lotnictwa Polskiego
Muzeum Narodowe w Krakowie
Muzeum Paleobotaniczne UJ
Muzeum PRL-u
Muzeum Starego Teatru
Muzeum Sztuki i Techniki Japońskiej “Manggha”
Muzeum Sztuki Współczesnej w Krakowie MOCAK
Muzeum Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego Collegium Maius
Muzeum Zoologiczne UJ
Ogród Botaniczny UJ
Ogród Doświadczeń
Zamek Królewski na Wawelu

Galeries:

Atelier Iwony Siwek-Front
Bunkier Sztuki
Galeria AS
Galeria Strefa A
Galeria Szara Kamienica
Galeria Zderzak
Immamura Art Gallery
Międzynarodowe Centrum Kultury
Onamato
Space Gallery

If you go a bit outside of the city you can find interesting spots, like for example Garaż on Kasztelańska st.

Artistic project based in real garage by graphic couple Nina & Piotrek. Place works pretty well from last year, every month exhibition, concert or just a meeting for friends from friends.

Tonight in Garaż – Pwee3000 showing his works for the very first time and concert of Świniary who describe their music as hahard rock and hard cock. Short description says Pwee3000 was raised by travelling, skateboarding and snowboarding. Go and check by yourself how he absorb the world and spit it out in his drawings.

Three short movies and 61 photographs  by Rene Magritte are presented at the moment ( until 10th of June ) in International Cultural Centre (Międzynarodowe Centrum Kultury). “Author of words and things” invite you to a trip to his unrealisticly created world. Student of Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels worked  in various fields – painter, photographer, film maker supported by bunch of friends including André Breton and Georgette Berger – his wife who was always the biggest inspiration for him.  Depicted as icon of surrealism came through impressionism, futurism, cubism in his artistic inspirations/path.

Open all week excluding Monday  10 a.m. –6 p.m.
Tickets:
Regular – 8 PLN
Discounted – 5 PLN

Each Sunday a guided exhibition tour included in the ticket price:
in Polish at 12 p.m.
in English at 4 p.m.

Map showing where the place exactly is on the Main Market .

Highly recommended to visit and remember  “everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see” (Rene Magritte)

Turner and the Elements  in an exhibition presented in National Museum until 8th of January 2011. First time in Poland we can see works of Joseph Mallord William Turner, one of the greatest English Romantics, precursor of impressionisim and symbolism.

For those lazy which don’t want to poke out their noses you can play the game based on fragments of canvas.

National Museum

Main Building

al. 3 Maja 1, 30-062 Kraków

Openned:

• Tuesday – Saturday 10.00 – 18.00

• Sunday 10.00 – 16.00 (free entrance)

• Monday – closed

Tickets:

• 10 zł – regular
• 5 zł – students

Every year edition brings to the day light stories from across the world captured by photographers and comments present issues.

World Press Photo was founded in 1955 and an independent non-profit organization  based in Amsterdam to support and increase standards in photojournalism and documentary photography among the photographers from whole the world.

“We believe in the power of visual journalism to inspire and shape us”.

Exhibition can be seen in Bunkier Sztuki (Bunker of Art) till 28th of October from 10am till 8pm.

Tickets:

Regular: 12pln

Students:  6pln

If you don’t have a chance to go check this website where you can see winning photos and hear the stories hidden behind them.

From introduction: “This year’s theme of the festiwal is borrowed from the prophetic and best-selling 1970 book by Alvin Toffler, which described the disorienting effects of accelerated technological and social change. Confronted with an unprecedented sense of iformation overload, many artists reach bockward, side-ways and forward to re-imagine the future from the vantage point of the past , filtered through the present via outmoded technologies or disjointed contexts”

During one week (8.10- 16.10) you have a chance attend concerts, workshops, installations and movies. Let’s experience and try to ask ourselves about the future.

Full program you can find here and other useful info as locations and tickets.

For those who are interested in food and nutrition surroundings check Galeria Pauza on Floriańska 18/5 (second floor) today at 7pm

“FOODJECTS is an exhibition presenting new patterns in kitchen utensils created by Spanish industrial designers and chefs. The purpose of their creation was to emphasise the texture, flavours, differences and aromas in new Spanish cuisine – one of the most creative and surprising in the world. Nearly 100 objects are a proof that consumption can also provide us with intelectuall and sensual experiences and an original exhibition installation created by Martín Azúy is an excellent creativity.”

The International Cultural Center, located on the main square, is currently running an exhibition called “Us And Them.” The collection offers curious viewers the opportunity to peer into the eyes of many strange and gnarled beasts, from illustrations such as the one above to modern comic-book imagery of sneaky humanoids carrying fetuses in bell jars.

Read about the exhibit here.

Runs from 15 March until 5 June 2011.

The gallery in the center is open Tuesday through Sunday from 10.00 until 18.00. Regular tickets cost 8 Zł.

As defined by the Historical Museum, a”szopka krakowska” is a slender, multilevel, often towered, richly decorated construction, made of impermanent materials. Elements of typical Cracow architecture are often present in the nativity scene, and this year you can also see some politicly related elements too.

Worth visiting while you are in Krakow or exploring for your own knowledge at the wikipedia site.

Opening hours:

Sunday-Thursday: 9:00-18:00

Friday: 9:00-19:00

December 24th and 25th and January 1st -  exhibition is closed.

December 26th : 9:00-16:00

December 31th : 9:00-15:00

Tickets:
Regular: 8 PLN
Reduced : 6 PLN
Mondays – tickets only: 3 PLN

Pałac Krzysztofory

Rynek Główny 35

It’s not warm enough at your place?

You can increase your blood pressure by going to Cuban feast in Kawiarnia Naukowa on Saturday evening.

Cuban movies, photos, music, food, drinks and light!

Starts at 8pm

Free entrance

Kawiarnia Naukowa

On 28th of November you can visit most of Krakow’s Museums for Free. National Museum and all his branches are waiting to be visited as well as Salt Mine, Old Synagogue and Museum of Nowa Huta.

Whole day of exploring! (from 10am to4pm)

Here is link to whole programme.

Design Attack (check link for the full programme) organized by Forum Foundation is the first such great festival dedicated to design in Krakow. The attempt is to present the newest trends in international design. This edition is focused on the Austrian school and her influences in contemporary industrial design and “material of the future” presented at the Center for Contemporary Art Solvay.

From 6th till 30 of November.

Bloomsbury Set is british, controversial group of writers, artists and philosophers from beginning of 20th century.

For the first time in Poland we have a chance to see masterpieces of british bohemia of the circle of Virginia Woolf. On the exhibition will be presented best paintings, woodcuts and lithographs of such artist as Vanessa Bell (sister of Virginia Wolf), Roger Fry, Duncan Grant, Dora Carrington. Books from the Victoria University in Toronto related to the Bloomsbury Group will be also on show as well as ceramics, furniture and crafts.

Open: till 9th of January 2011, Tuesday – Sunday 10am-6pm, every Sunday guided exhibition, included in a ticket price at noon.

Tickets: regular 8pln, reduced 5pln.

International Culture Centre

Rynek Główny 25

Exhibition in Bunkier Sztuki dedicated to the youngest lovers of contemporary art. Title comes from “Alice in Wonderland” of Lewis Carroll and encourage to explore the unknown.

All works were made especially for the exhibition and suppose to include children into the world of art.

Not only children are invited – everybody can make a journey to the rabbit’s burrow and remember how it was to be a child.

Bunkier Sztuki

Plac Szczepanski 3a

Tuesday–Sunday: 11.00 a.m.–6.00 p.m

Tickets:

Normal 6 zl
Reduced 3 zl

Former forced labour camp Auschwitz-Birkenau is the most visited museum in Poland. New project of Mikołaj Grynberg using photographs and recorded  interviews with  visitors build the discussion  and explores why  we are still visiting this place, why we are  can not forget place which not allowed us to forget about it.

Mikołaj Grynber is a psychologist, photographing for 20 years. In Galeria Pauza we can see blurred portraits of the people visiting and fuzzy photos of the buildings, space complete sound installation made up from recorded conversations.

Open till 26th of September.

Galeria Pauza 

ul.Floriańska 18/5

Open from Tuesday  till Sunday 3pm till 9pm.

Opening of Gallery of 19th Century Polish Art took place 3rd of September.

After 3 years of renovation and modernisation we have a chance to see again  the biggest permanent exhibition of paintings and sculptures.

Today (5th) Gallery is opened for visitors till 6pm.

Entrance for free

For more details visit website of the museum.

Exhibition in Muzeum Etnograficzne, part of the Jewish Culture Festival presenting pictures of Jerusalem from nineteen century. Collection of Abraham Madeisker shows not only how Jerusalem used to like like but also present the development of photography.

Seweryn Udziela Ethnographic Museum in Krakow
ul. Krakowska 46

Tickets: regular  7 pln , reduced 4pln

Open: Monday closed

Thu – Sat 10 am – 7pm

Saturady 10am – 3pm

Exibition open till 28th of November

Check Museum website for other exhibtiotions, good place to stay in for some hours during the rainy day…

Recently opened museum (11th of June) as a branch of Historical Museum of the City of Krakow in former Oskar Schindler’s Factory (4 Lipowa Street) display exhibition Krakow under Nazi Occupation 1939-1945.

Documentary photographs, witnesses to history relations, multimedial presentations built the picture of everyday life in occupied Krakow.

Through casual objects, newspapers, photographs, personal and official documents we have a chance to explore history of II World War.

Museum open:

Monday 10 am – 14 pm, free entrance

Tuesday – Sunday 10 am – 18 pm

Tickets:

regular – 15 PLN

reduced – 13 PLN

In Galeria Zderzak Mambo & Spinoza – paintings, films, photography and installations; rhythmic – philosophical cocktail, warm and sunny, good for today’s weather.

Exhibition open till end of August

Floriańska St 3

From 3rd of July till 29th of August we have a chance to see works of one of the most ingenius photographers of 20th century.

94 photographs showes  architecture and life in New York in the Forties.

The International Cultural Centre Gallery

25 Rynek Główny, 1st floor
Open: Tuesday - Sunday, 11 am - 7 pm

Tickets: regular 8 pln

reduced 5 pln