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Film 14 YEARS in the making becomes ONLY Polish production to make prestigious Berlinale festival

The film will premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival on 22 February, where it will be shown as part of the Encounters competition, which aims to support new voices in cinema, while giving more room to diverse narrative and documentary forms. Zabij to i wyjedź z tego miasta/Facebook

The animation by director Mariusz Wilczyński is described as “an autobiographical impression, reminiscence of childhood images, in which the memory of dead parents and the hometown of Łódź comes to life.”

French museum's assistant director awarded Polish Culture decoration

Assistant Director of the French Louvre-Lens Museum, and joint curator on the museum's current exhibition on Polish painting from 1840-1914, Luc Piralla-Heng Vonga on Friday received the Decoration of Honour Meritorious for Polish Culture in the French town of Lens.

Getting to the Art of the matter! New scanner helps spot fakes with 12-hour-probing

With art forgeries being surprisingly common art dealers and museums are increasingly turning to science to check whether a painting is authentic. The fake-busting spectrometer worth over 1mln PLN is the National Museum in Kraków’s latest weapon in the fight against art fraud.

Stunning 16th century artwork feared lost after WWII returned following landmark court case

Stashed away by Germans during WWII, the History of Apollo and Daphne by Abraham Bloemaert disappeared after its hiding place was ransacked by Soviet soldiers. Considered one of the best examples of North European Mannerism, it was returned after a woman who tried selling it to a museum in Wrocław was taken to court in civil case.

Stunning art collection hidden inside bank goes on show as PKO celebrates its centenary

PKO Bank Polski has made its art collection public at Warsaw’s National Museum where visitors enter through a dazzling gold corridor as if they were entering the bank’s treasury. The main exhibit room is steel grey like a safety deposit box.

Picasso gems hidden from view in National Museum’s basement go on show at special ‘Treasures’ exhibition

The National Museum of Warsaw currently holds Poland’s largest collection of Picasso’s works, among them 20 ceramic plates of which 10 have gone on show.

Spectacular collection of unseen Zamoyski sculptures to return to Poland

The works by August Zamoyski, which have never been exhibited in public before, cover his sculpting career from very early carvings in Poland through to those completed just before his death in the south of France.

Polish treasure from 4th century BC transferred to National Museum

Polish Minister of Culture and National Heritage Piotr Gliński announced on Monday that a red-figure lekythos dating back to the fourth century BC had officially been returned to the National Museum in Warsaw.

Stunning ‘never-before-seen’ art goes on show at Independence exhibition

As well as showcasing rare collections from the National Museum in Warsaw, the ‘Shouting: Poland! Independence 1918’ exhibition, which starts today (October 26th), will also include hitherto unseen artwork from other cultural institutions.

From LA dining room to Warsaw’s National Museum: Looted WWII art returned after more than 70 years

Geldorp’s Portrait of a Lady had been in public collections in Warsaw from 1935 until the outbreak of WWII. It had been purchased by the city together with a collection of 94 other paintings.

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