May Holiday 2023 in Krakow - museum overview
This year's long weekend is filled with newly opened exhibitions that undoubtedly constitute a significant attraction for both adults and children. Among the attractions offered by Krakow's museums, everyone will find something for themselves; visitors will have the opportunity to admire both traditional and interactive exhibits.
The Museum of Engineering and Technology has been delighting Krakow residents since the beginning of April with a new permanent exhibition – nostalgic for many. City. Technosensitivity is the first extensive presentation in Poland of the history of engineering thought, its impact on changes in the city and its inhabitants.
The exhibits include, among others: wooden water pipes from the 16th century originating from Krakow and Gdansk, the Picht typewriter for the blind, the first Polish telephones, a luxury Capello Roma music set (with a geographic scale), one of the first electron tubes of Polish production – the triode of the Polish Radiotechnical Society, the "Gródek" electric stove, a built-in Electrolux refrigerator from the 1920s, a Polski Fiat 508 car, a CWS Sokół 1000 M111 motorcycle, vehicle prototypes such as the Smyk microcar, the Odra 1305 computer, and probably the only preserved example of the PSPD 90 minicomputer manufactured in Krakow.
Presented at the Archaeological Museum in Krakow, prepared in cooperation with the Earth Museum in Warsaw, the exhibition presents unique remains of Ice Age animal skeletons, including a mammoth skull found in the Vistula River, bones of a woolly rhinoceros, forest elephant, cave bear, steppe bison, aurochs, and a giant deer. Among the exhibits, there is also a collection of Paleolithic hunters' weapons.
The Nowa Huta Museum, a branch of the Krakow Museum, guarantees great fun at the exhibition dedicated to toys from the Polish People's Republic. Clothes dryers, Reksio, Atari are offerings not only for children but also for adults wishing to return to their childhood times. Among the hundreds of exhibits presented at the exhibition, one can find, among others, stuffed teddy bears, soldier figurines, toy vehicles, popular board games, a spinning top, an electric train, and the Ania projector – but also rare items, e.g., an authentic Uszatek Teddy doll, original animation cells depicting, among others, Reksio and Bolek and Lolek, graphics by Bohdan Butenko (one of the most frequently awarded Polish authors, graphic artists, and illustrators), original comic boards, including series from Kajko and Kokosz and Jonek, Jonek and Kleks. Naturally, the exhibition features the titular clothes dryer and the Atari computer.
The exhibition has two visitor paths – for adults and for children. The children's path consists of interactive spaces. The youngest visitors are guided by narrators – Zosia and Antoś, whose texts are a project by students from grades IV and V of Primary School No. 52 in Krakow.
For more information, please visit krakow.pl:
https://www.krakow.pl/kalendarium/1919,object,1,1744849,,trzepaki__reksio__atari_.html
https://www.krakow.pl/kalendarium/1919,object,1,1744887,2023-04-09,wielkie_ssaki_epoki_lodowcowej.html
https://www.krakow.pl/kalendarium/1919,object,1,1744999,2023-04-09,nowa_wystawa___miasto__technoczulosc.html
The thumbnail image is from Radio Bialystok's website