The Gallery of Katarzyna Napiorkowska is one of Poland’s first commercial art galleries. For over 30 years, the gallery has been presenting contemporary paintings, graphics, drawings, and sculptures. Our galleries are located in Warsaw and Brussels. The portfolio of the Gallery includes over 2,000 selected objects of renowned Polish artists. The Gallery presents and promotes young artists....

Zachęta – National Gallery of Art is an institution whose mission is to popularise contemporary art as an important element of socio-cultural life. A place where the most interesting phenomena of 20th and 21st century art are presented. The gallery stages temporary exhibitions. Among the outstanding Polish and foreign artists whose works have been shown in its historical, over 100 years old...

The Research Library collects national and foreign publications in the field of history of art and culture (including materials related to non-European cultures – from the Far East, South America), archaeology, numismatics, museology, conservation, as well as all publications concerning Nicolaus Copernicus and Toruń. All books are obtained through donations, purchases and exchanges with...

Archeology of Photography Foundation (FAF) studies, works on, prepares and preserves archives of Polish photographers. It was founded in 2008 and today takes care of archives of 10 artists. Working with archives is complex: they are organized, digitalized and made accessible on-line. We also run a gallery, conduct research projects, organize exhibitions, workshops and lectures. We publish...

The Star House is a unique historic building located in the heart of Toruń, in the Old Town Square. It is a tenement house which was first erected in the Middle Ages and rebuilt several times since its original creation. It contains elements of different eras – from the Gothic walls to a richly decorated Baroque façade – and contain a magnificent spiral wooden stairs decorated with figures of...

The Museum of Warmia and Masuria in Olsztyn was founded in 1945. The institution is seated in a fourteenth-century Gothic castle built for the administrator of the Warmia Chapter’s estates. In the years 1516-1521, this function was performed here by Nicolaus Copernicus. To this day, on the gallery wall there remains a unique memento of his stay – a hand-made experimental astronomical table,...

Located in the heart of the historic Old Town of Toruń, the Old Town Hall is not only one of the most important historic buildings in the city, but also one of the largest and most beautiful constructions of this type in Europe. Built on a square plan with an inner courtyard, it is a symbol of the Gothic Old Town Complex which became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997. For centuries, the...

The museum is located in the former Dohna Palace, which was built in several stages. Its oldest edge is the south-western corner section of the medieval fortified city wall with towers. Subsequent stages of construction from the 1560s up until the 1920s are related with the powerful and influential Duchy of Prussia noble family – the zu Dohna. Initially, the Dohna resided in a former...

Ladies and gentlemen, We are witnessing the sixth mass extinction of species on Earth. Scientists agree that we are all responsible for this process. We are also the most threatened by the domino effect, where the death of one species leads to the annihilation of others that depend on it. That cycle that cannot be broken and we already cut the branch we are sitting on. Uncontrolled...

The library is located on the ground floor of the Ujazdowski Castle in the Nordic Room . It is open to everyone who is interested in contemporary art . It creates excellent conditions both for scientific work , development of one's own interests and rest . The book collection , largely unique , has nearly 20 , 000 volumes . It consists of exhibition catalogues , artists' monographs and...