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Family Sunday with games!
At the end of the summer holidays, we invite you to play classic and some newer video games together! The programme includes playing with retro video game consoles, stories about older technologies and even trying out some of the most famous titles right on the museum wall! Games will be provided by our friendly shop […]
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 would like to invite you to a unique guided tour through our exhibitions. In August, we would like to invite you to a guided tour led by Jagoda Wójcicka. In Polish. Free admission. Space is limited, registration […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 would like to invite you to a unique guided tour through our exhibitions. In July, we would like to invite you to guided tours with three different guides in three different languages: 12.00 – guided tour in […]
Concert: New Voices of Yiddish Song – Isabel Frey, Benjy Fox-Rosen, and Esther Wratschko, feat. Soveles
Yiddish is often associated with being old, outdated or extinct. But during this event, three Vienna-based Yiddish singers and songwriters will join forces for a new program celebrating the creative potential and vibrant dynamism of contemporary Yiddish song. The program is a musical potpourri, ranging from Isabel Frey’s new revolutionary Yiddish songs, over Esther Wratschko’s […]
A Bee Family Sunday
The bees in our museum’s beehives are working nonstop! We would like to invite children and their guardians to a workshop during which we will find out where honey comes from and whether bees are friendly insects. After the workshop, every participant will be able to take a bit of the Galician honey home in […]
33rd Jewish Culture Festival in Krakow
The 33rd Jewish Culture Festival is coming! This is the largest Jewish festival in Europe and, as a partnering institution, we would like to invite you to the Galicia Jewish Museum to its festival accompanying events, among which you will find: exhibition openings, film screenings, Q&A sessions with authors, lectures, workshops for children and many, […]
