ECC Closing Weekend: Open days for an art – visit museums for free
Six museums of Wroclaw invite people to visit art exhibitions for free or for a nominal fee during European Capital of Culture’s closing weekend. It’s a real chance to see works of global artists.
From Friday to Sunday (16th-18th December) we will have a chance to visit Wroclaw’s museums and see really great art exhibitions devoted to an art, photography, history and architecture. Also, We will have the possibility to visit recently opened places like The Four Domes Pavilon or Zajezdnia History Centre.
The Museum of Architecture invites for an art exhibition called „Lwów 24 czerwca 1937. Miasto, architektura, modernizm”. The date was chosen randomly by the authors of an art exhibition to tell about the architecture of Lviv from a perspective of ordinary resident of Wroclaw.
„Wrocławska Europa” - an art exhibition that is worth to visit at the National Museum. We will see Bartholomeus Strobel’s paintings, Wroclaw’s prominent painter, especially famous in our part of Europe in 17th Century. Nowadays, one of his canvas is at the famous Prado Museum in Madrid. Entrance fee: 1 zł.
We will have the possibility to visit an art exhibition called „Summer rental” at The Four Domes Pavilion. Famous painting „Multicoloured Marilyn” by Any Warhol, artworks by Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly or Wilhelm Sasnal and Rafał Bujnowski’s canvas are the part of German artist Erich Marks’ big collection. Tickets for „Summer rental” costs 3 zł.
In the Zajezdnia History Cetre on Grabiszyńska Street will be opened permanent exposition called „Wrocław 1945-2016”. Free admission.
We can visit Main Railway Station to see an unusual art exhibition devoted to history of photography called „Photography never dies”. We will see about 600 of photographs including first strengthened photograph, first selfie, first photo that was left on the Moon and first digital photography. Free admission.
The City Museum of Wroclaw invites sightseers on Sunday. We will have a chance to see an art exhibition called „Masterpieces of art from the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin”. An exhibition includes paintings from 19th Century collected by German Joachim Heinrich Wilhelm Wagner and then given for the National Gallery in Berlin. Free admission.
Agnieszka Kołodyńska