11.08.2024, 11.00

Guided tour: The House of Graves: Cemeteries and Death in Jewish Culture – The New Jewish Cemetery at Miodowa Street

Led by Bartosz Wencel One of the spaces most associated with Jewish culture are cemeteries, because they are often the only remaining trace of a town’s Jewish citizens. In Krakow, for sure, this looks slightly different, but for many, Jewish cemeteries are a mysterious place, with “exotic” inscriptions on tombstones. We would like to invite

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29.07.2024, 12.00

Guided tour through “May ’81. An Exhibition of Photographs by Chris Schwarz”

Led by the exhibition curator, Tomasz Strug Chris Schwarz was a British photographer and the founder and first director of the Galicia Jewish Museum, which he established in 2004. His first visit to Poland took place many years before the opening of the Museum. However, in May 1981, he came here as a freelance photojournalist

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20.07.2024, 11.00

Guided Tour: Art in Kazimierz, Kazimierz in Art – On Artists, Paintings, Polichromes, Sculptures, and the Architecture of the People of Kazimierz

Led by: Bartosz Wencel One of the increasingly discussed aspects of pre-war Jewish life is art. But what is Jewish art and who is a Jewish artist? Is their Jewishness confirmed by what they depicted in their sculptures, paintings, or in architecture they designed? Or maybe their upbringing is the important part? Is there a

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