The Tatra Museum - Zakopane, Poland

Marek Szymanowicz · June 8th, 2009, 05:08 PM

Hallo all interested..

I've been visiting Zakopane at the weekend and I couldn't avoid visiting the museum to have a quick look at least at few exhibited pieces of the collection..
I did not have a chance ;(
There was a temporary exhibition on the "120 years of the Tatra museum" - realy nice but NO RUGS.
I was told that they show it temporarily once a year some time in winter.

So if any of you want to visit - check first !!!
BUT - I found a copy of the catalogue - LAST ONE - so it was worth to visit anyway

regards
marek

Rich Larkin · June 9th, 2009, 03:58 AM

Hi Marek,

If I understood everything, most of your posts of catalog images were from Cracow. Is that right? Have you posted any from the Zakopane catalog? We'd love to see some.

Rich Larkin

Marek Szymanowicz · June 9th, 2009, 10:52 AM

Hallo Rich.

I didn't make myself clear I think so you got me wrong a bit.

The collection is devided between Zakopane and Wawel Castle in Cracow. In the castle they have about 60 pieces of which only about 15 are on the show together with other oriental art (chinese ceramics, cracow-paris rug from vienna, turkish tents and armoury. etc) - on the permament exibition called Art of the East.
The rest - about 100 pieces are in the Zakopane but they show it partialy on temporary exhibitions.

The catalogue I'm talking about is the only catalogue with pictures and info about ALL pieces and it was printed on the occasion of a greate exhibition in summer 2006 in the wawel Castle, where the whole re-joined collection was on the show. Front cover of the book is in my post earlier.

Pictures in post #3 are from Zakopane, and from post #11 are scanned from the book so some of them are from Zakopane some from the castle. I think they devided it more less like this: tribal, ethnic and folk character in Zakopane, and because of the characteristic of the place- oldest ones ,prayer rugs, palace rugs, area rugs... in the Castle.

regards
marek

Rich Larkin · June 9th, 2009, 12:56 PM

Thanks, Marek. Got it.

Rich

June 8th, 2009, 05:08 PM	#1
Marek Szymanowicz Members Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Kraków, Poland Posts: 12	Hallo all interested.. I've been visiting Zakopane at the weekend and I couldn't avoid visiting the museum to have a quick look at least at few exhibited pieces of the collection.. I did not have a chance ;( There was a temporary exhibition on the "120 years of the Tatra museum" - realy nice but NO RUGS. I was told that they show it temporarily once a year some time in winter. So if any of you want to visit - check first !!! BUT - I found a copy of the catalogue - LAST ONE - so it was worth to visit anyway regards marek

June 9th, 2009, 03:58 AM	#2
Rich Larkin Members Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Massachusetts Posts: 130	Hi Marek, If I understood everything, most of your posts of catalog images were from Cracow. Is that right? Have you posted any from the Zakopane catalog? We'd love to see some. Rich Larkin

June 9th, 2009, 10:52 AM	#3
Marek Szymanowicz Members Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Kraków, Poland Posts: 12	Hallo Rich. I didn't make myself clear I think so you got me wrong a bit. The collection is devided between Zakopane and Wawel Castle in Cracow. In the castle they have about 60 pieces of which only about 15 are on the show together with other oriental art (chinese ceramics, cracow-paris rug from vienna, turkish tents and armoury. etc) - on the permament exibition called Art of the East. The rest - about 100 pieces are in the Zakopane but they show it partialy on temporary exhibitions. The catalogue I'm talking about is the only catalogue with pictures and info about ALL pieces and it was printed on the occasion of a greate exhibition in summer 2006 in the wawel Castle, where the whole re-joined collection was on the show. Front cover of the book is in my post earlier. Pictures in post #3 are from Zakopane, and from post #11 are scanned from the book so some of them are from Zakopane some from the castle. I think they devided it more less like this: tribal, ethnic and folk character in Zakopane, and because of the characteristic of the place- oldest ones ,prayer rugs, palace rugs, area rugs... in the Castle. regards marek

June 9th, 2009, 12:56 PM	#4
Rich Larkin Members Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Massachusetts Posts: 130	Thanks, Marek. Got it. Rich