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First Lady of Beauty: Things You Do Not Know about Helena Rubinstein – A lecture by Kinga Banasik, the exhibition curator
A short lecture focusing on the story of Helena Rubinstein, from her Krakow-based childhood until the growth of her company. We will present facts from her life, which will be completed by lesser known trivia from the fascinating biography of Helena Rubinstein. This lecture will be conducted in the form of a presentation illustrated by […]
Curatorial guided tour through the exhibition “Helena Rubinstein. First Lady of Beauty”
In Polish. Free admission. Reservations required: zapisy@galiciajewishmuseum.org
Oblivion, Neighborhood Narratives, Local Ecologies. A meeting with Katarzyna Surmiak-Domańska
Led by: Roma Sendyka A meeting with Katarzyna Surmiak-Domańska, a journalist and reporter, author of the book “Czystki” (nominated this year to the Angelus Central European Literary Award) which is a story of being brought up in oblivion, about the children from the generation of a post-war social advancement, about attempts of being released from […]
“The Great Women of Galicia, or From Lviv to Vienna” – film screening
“The Great Women of Galicia, or From Lviv to Vienna” – film screening Dir. Piotr Szalsza, 2019 Stories of prominent women, who at the turn of the 19th and 20th century in Lviv and other cities of Eastern Galicia succeeded in their careers in such fields like music, theater, film, philosophy, psychology, pedagogy, medicine, and […]
Helena Rubinstein’s Krakow – themed guided tour
Born in the 1870s, Chaya Rubinstein, a daughter of a not very wealthy oil trader, lived in the Krakow’s district of Kazimierz, took care of her younger siblings, and helped her father with business. In these times, worldwide fame and her cosmetics empire didn’t even cross her mind. What did the Krakow of her childhood […]
Weekend with Helena Rubinstein
We would like to invite you to weekend guided tours of the exhibition “Helena Rubinstein: First Lady of Beauty”. Entrance tickets to the museum will be sold at a discounted price of 10 PLN. Also, free of charge curatorial guided tours will take place on Sunday, October 30th at 11 am. Guided tours – space […]
Film screening: “Bogdan’s Journey”
Film screening: “Bogdan’s Journey” dir. Michał Jaskulski, Lawrence Loewinger, 2016 At 7/9 Planty Street in Kielce, there is a two-story, relatively small house. Right after the war, it was the site of the Jewish Committee, in which a few dozen Holocaust Survivors found refuge. On July 4th, 1946, the citizens of Kielce, prompted by gossip […]
“Helena Rubinstein. First Lady of Beauty” – exhibition opening
We would like to invite you to the opening of a new temporary exhibition at the Galicia Jewish Museum, which will be devoted to the life of Helena Rubinstein, a renowned entrepreneur, one of the most intriguing personas of the 20th century, who in a few decades of her career built a worldwide cosmetics empire. […]
Family Sunday: meeting, art workshop, and a pre-premiere presentation of a book
Come and join us for a meeting and art workshop with Ela Wasiuczyńska, a painter and illustrator, and a pre-premiere meeting with the latest volume of the book “Pan Kuleczka. Niespodzianki” by Wojciech Widłak. During the meeting we will look at some original prints of “Pan Kuleczka”, a bestselling Polish children’s book, and we will […]
