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Opening hours during holiday times
Opening hours during holiday times: December 24th, 2024 – from 10:00 until 14:00 December 25th, 2024 – the museum is closed December 26th, 2024 – from 13:00 until 18:00 December 27th-30th, 2024 – from 10:00 until 18:00 December 31st, 2024 – from 10:00 until 15:00 January 1st, 2025 – the museum is closed January 2nd-5th, […]
Helena. A Story of a Krakow Woman, Who Changed the Cosmetic Industry
On December 25th, we will commemorate the 152nd anniversary of the birth of Helena Rubinstein, a renowned businesswoman from Kraków. To mark this occasion, we are honored to invite you to the premiere of a short animated film that refers to the exhibition “Helena Rubinstein. First Lady of Beauty” displayed at the Galicia Jewish Museum […]
20 for 20 – Guided tour through the Galicia Jewish Museum exhibitions
Since this year is the Galicia Jewish Museum’s 20th anniversary, on the 20th day of each month, we invite you to a unique guided tour through our exhibitions. The final guided tour, marking the conclusion of our anniversary celebrations, will be conducted by Jacek Stawiski, the Director of the Galicia Jewish Museum. In Polish. Free […]
“May ’81” – Premiere of the online exhibition and catalogue of Chris Schwarz’s unique photographs. Special Guest: Róża Thun
Chris Schwarz was a British photographer and the founder and first director of the Galicia Jewish Museum. Beginning in the early 1990s, he came to Poland to photograph traces of Jewish heritage, signs of interest in Jewish culture and the rebirth of Jewish life in the country several decades after the Holocaust. The photographs he […]
Family Sunday: “KEF Means Fun!”
We invite you to the last Family Sunday this year. We will spend it in the Land of Education and Fantasy, a new space at the Galicia Jewish Museum designed specifically for children! Together, we will tour the exhibition “KEF Means Fun!”. It is a space of exploration of the richness and diversity of Jewish […]
A Meeting with Adam Musiał, Polish translator of the book “Tales from the Borderlands” by Omer Bartov
Galicia Jewish Museum, Jewish Art Institute / Yidisher Kunst-Institut, and Czarne Publishing House would like to invite you to a conversation on the book “Tales from the Borderlands: Making and Unmaking the Galician Past” by Omer Bartov. Adam Musiał, who translated the book, and Ishbel Szatrawska will discuss Omer Bartov’s latest publication. Is it possible […]
Exhibition opening: “KEF Means Fun!”
In Hebrew, KEF means FUN. KEF is our space for education and imagination. Because in this space, you can learn, have fun, and unleash your creativity simultaneously. We invite you to the opening of Galicia Jewish Museum’s new permanent exhibition, “KEF Means Fun!” It was created with the youngest visitors to the Galicia Jewish Museum […]
Presentation: Interactive VR Interviews with Holocaust Survivors: Contemporary Technology in Museum Education
We invite you to a test presentation of a VR application based on interviews with Holocaust Survivors organized by the Virtual Horizons Foundation. During the event, visitors will have the opportunity to participate in two interactive conversations: one with a person who, as a child, hid in an underground bunker with their family for many […]
“May ’81. An Exhibition of Photographs by Chris Schwarz” – guided tour led by the exhibition curator
Led by: 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 wanting to document […]
