The 10 Best Museums in Zakopane, Southern Poland

The Art Gallery, dedicated to Wlodzimierz and Jerzy Kulczycki, is located in the vicinity of the famous House Pod Jedlami [Under the Firs], in a brick building in manorial style erected in the early 1920s by the Koziański family. Purchased from the family heirs by the Bureau of the Cabinet after World War II, the Koziański House served in the People's Poland as a rep-resentative residence visited by those in power including Prime Minister Józef Cyrankiewicz, which accounts for the then popular name of the building, 'Cyrankiewiczówka'. Following the exertions of some of the Tatra Museum staff, in 1981 the municipal authorities conveyed the building to the museum with a view to converting it into a gallery of eastern carpets of an earlier donation made by Jerzy Kulczycki's widow, Anna Piotrowicz-Kulczycka. The Kulczycki Gallery is first and foremost at the service of the Art Department. Collections, which are not part of the museum's permanent exhibitions, are put on show here. This is carried out within such thematic series as e.g. the 'Tatra Landscape: The Tatra Mountains and the Region of Podhale in Watercolour' or 'Portraits in the Collection of the Tatra Museum'.

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ILLUSION HOUSE ZAKOPANE offers a unique experience to see and enjoy the magic of optical illusions and 3D paintings that will play with your imagination. Come and experience that things are not always what they seem to be. Covering an area of 450square meters, over 30 attractions await that will awaken your curiosity. A truly fascinating experience for both kids and adults. As the old proverb says “Better to see something once than to hear about it a thousand times.”

Originally run by the artist, it is a gallery of his works. Born in Nowy Sącz in 1928, Wladyslaw Hasior was first educated in Zakopane under the supervision of the outstanding teacher and artist Antoni Kenar at the State School of Art Techniques, which he completed in 1952. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw with Professor Marian Wnuk, graduating in 1958, and in Ossip Zadkine's studio in Paris in 1959. Even before his graduation from the Academy, he started teaching at the State School of Art Techniques in Zakopane, with which he was to remain connected for many years. In December 1984 his works were transferred from the artist's small studio to the Gallery in Jagiellońska Street. The Gallery is based in the former resting terrace of the Warszawianka sanatorium. Erected in 1935 to Waclaw Nowakowski's design, the wooden resting terrace originally had two levels glazed from the south. It has been adapted for the gallery needs, becoming a complex of interiors on several layers, intended as exhibition rooms, often a concert hall, as well the artist's home and studio. The Gallery was inaugurated in February 1985. Displayed in the Gallery are Wladyslaw Hasior's famous banners, spatial compositions and sculptures made of various materials as well as objects of daily use, often bordering on junk, which have in the artist's hands acquired a new meaning. Bearing metaphorical, witty, slightly pervert titles, they make one ponder on the present-day world and art.