Foreign exhibtions of the Kraków Nativity Scenes from the museum's collection - 2008

Barcelona

On 2nd October 2008 in the Diocesan Museum in Barcelona there was a ceremonial opening of The Kraków Nativity Scenes exhibition. Citizens of the capital city of Catalonia had a chance to see 10 Christmas Cribs made by famous cribs makers like Zbigniew Gillert, Bronisław Pięcik, Stanisław Paczyński and Ferdynand Sadowski, from the collection of the Historical Museum of the City of Kraków. Polish Diaspora were very interested in the exhibition and the opening of the exhibition was broadcasted by one of the local TV stations. The exhibition was arranged in cooperation between Polish consulate general in Barcelona, Foreign Collaboration Office of the Kraków City Council and Institute of Adam Mickiewicz. The exhibition will be opened until 12th of January 2009.

Turin

The Kraków Nativity Scenes for many years have been a success as well in Poland as abroad. It can be said that they are a symbol of Kraków which makes that our city is recognizable.
This year Kraków’s Cribs will be presented in Turin, in the museum - Museo Nazionale della Montagna. For the first time we are going to present our cribs in a new, different from previous patterns form. On a Turin’s museum invitation we have arranged an exhibition which apart from typical presentation of Kraków’s Christmas Cribs is a show our Christmas traditions and customs Because of the fact that museum in Turin focuses on the mountains subject-matter, the show was extended with the features of the traditions from Podhale, that is why together with the cribs from Kraków we are going to present people’s cribs from the collection of Jacek Łodziński.
The opening will be in 13th of November 2008.

Tartu

This year the Kraków Nativity Scenes are going to visit Estonia. Eight works of art made by Kraków’s cribs makers are presented in Tartu (previously called Dorpat), the city famous because of created in 1632 by king of Sweden - Gustavus Adolphus – university. Because of this fact the city of Tartu in Estonia (like Kraków in Poland), very often is called a cultural and intellectual capital city of the country. The Kraków’s Christmas Cribs will be presented since 29th of November 2008 until beginning of February 2009 in the Museum of Toys. During the exhibition all children will be able to take part in the cribs makers’ workshops. The event was arranged by Kraków City Council together with Polish embassy in Tallinn. This is another stage of lasting for over a year cooperation of Kraków and Tartu.