Muzeum Kinematografii

Fax.: 42/674 90 06

Info Telefon: 42/674 09 57
Besucher-Email: muzeum@kinomuzeum.pl
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Oddzial Muzeum Sztuki w Lodzi - Rezydencja ''Ksiezy Mlyn''

Fax.: +48 42-674 99 82

Info Telefon: 48 42-674 96 98
Besucher-Email: rkm.administracja@muzeumsztuki.lodz.pl

The so-called Ksiezy Mlyn complex, a unique group of industrial and residential buildings, was built in 1870-79. Among the most important of them was the villa of the Lódz industrialist Edward Herbst and Zofia Matylda Herbst, the daughter of the cotton magnate Karol Scheibler. Built around 1875, the villa was designed by Hilary Majewski, the architect of the city in 1872-92. It is a two-storey Neo-Renaissance villa on the plan of a rectangle, almost a square, covered with a hip roof, with a belvedere. A ballroom was built next to the villa in 1877, with an adjacent service outbuilding on the north side, founded on orthogonal projection with side wings. The other service building - the stable and the coach-house - designed by Adolf Zeligson (Seligson), was built in 1893.
The family occupied the place until 1941, when they left for Vienna, taking with them all the furnishings. After the Second World War the house changed hands several times. Muzeum Sztuki took over the villa in 1976 and carried out its thorough refurbishment.
The interiors of the main building, the villa itself, were reconstructed as a typical house of the £ódŸ industrialist at the turn of the century. Reconstruction was based on scarce iconographic materials, accounts of one-time visitors to the place and on photographs of other factory-owners’ residences in Lódz.
 

Muzeum Sportu i Turystyki / Museum for Sport and Tourism

Besucher-Email: muzeum.sportu@neostrada.pl, sport@poznanskipalace.muzeum-lodz.pl
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Muzeum Sztuki, Gmach Glówny

Fax.: +48 42-632 99 41

Info Telefon: + 48 42- 633 97 90
Besucher-Email: muzeum@muzeumsztuki.lodz.pl

The most valuable part of the Museum’s holdings is the a.r. International Collection of Modern Art, which is highly esteemed and well known all over the world. It was initiated in 1929 by a group of artists, led by W³adys³aw Strzemiñski, Katarzyna Kobro and Henryk Sta¿ewski. They had the idea of creating an international collection of most recent art, for which they managed to gain the support of such renowned artists as Hans Arp, Max Ernst, Theo van Doesburg, Fernand Léger, Enrico Prampolini, Pablo Picasso, Georges Vantongerloo, Louis Marcoussis, Kurt Schwitters and others; and among Polish artists, of Leon Chwistek, Karol Hiller, Stanis³aw Ignacy Witkiewicz and Mieczys³aw Szczuka. On 15 February 1931 the collection was shown for the first time. It included 111 works and represented - as no other contemporary European collection had done - the main movements of avant-garde art, from Cubism, Futurism and Constructivism, through Purism and Surrealism, to Neo-Plasticism and Surrealism.
In the years 1928-1939 the Museum (and the International Collection of Modern Art) was housed in the former city hall of £ódŸ. In 1946, it was moved to one of the Poznañski family residences, at 36 Wiêckowskiego Street. The Museum was subsequently taken over by the state and its name changed to ‘Muzeum Sztuki in £ódŸ’.
The fact that the £ódŸ museum had been founded by artists decided its character as an institution to be shaped in cooperation with the artists, and that resulted in some donations of the postwar period. In 1945, Karol Hiller’s wife, Jadwiga, presented the Museum the legacy of the great artist who had been murdered by the Nazis. In the same year W³adys³aw Strzemiñski and Katarzyna Kobro also bequeathed their creative output to the Museum. Some more works by artists representing the international avant-garde and various art movements (such as Surrealism) were acquired through Denise René, Michel Seuphora, Jan Brzêkowski, Edouard Jaguer and Jerzy Kujawski, based in Paris. In 1975, Mateusz Grabowski, the owner of a London gallery, presented Muzeum Sztuki 230 works by the most outstanding young British artists. Another very important event took place in 1981: the visit of Joseph Beuys, who gave to the Museum part of his Archive, a selection of more than a thousand works. That was his Polentransport 1981. In the same year Muzeum Sztuki became the depository for a collection of works owned by the Independent Trade Union ‘Solidarnoœæ’, and donated by the participants of the ‘Construction in Process’, an international arts event (£ódŸ, 1981). In 1983, a group of American artists handed over to the Museum a collection of their own works, which was the outcome of the Echange entre artistes 1931-1982, Pologne-USA, initiated by Henryk Sta¿ewski, Anka Ptaszkowska, Pontus Hulten and the Foksal Gallery in Warsaw to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the a.r. group. In 1992, thanks to the initiative of Jürgen Blum, Muzeum Sztuki received the works of the artists taking part in the international exhibition Redukta (Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw).

Today, the collection of modern art totals more than 10,000 items.
The Museum’s holdings also include old Polish and foreign art - altogether over 2,300 objects as well as an interesting collection of handicraft.
 

Muzeum Historii Miasta Lodzi / Museum of History of City Lodz

Fax.: 048 42 6540323

Info Telefon: 048 42 6540323
Besucher-Email: muzeum@poznanskipalace.muzeum-lodz.pl
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Monday closed
Tuesday 10.00 - 16.00
Wednesday 14.00 - 18.00
Thursday 10.00 - 16.00
Friday 10.00 - 14.00
Saturday 10.00 - 14.00
Sunday 10.00 - 14.00 (free of charge for individual tourists. Cost-free tickets will be given in cash box since 10.00)

The Poznanski Palace has been listed as one of the largest and greatest residence of its type. The Poznanski family owned three other palaces as well one in Warsaw, the tenement blocks and a wood villa outside the city. But the palace at Ogrodowa Street was the biggest.
The history of the palace is rather short but very intensive. It started back to 1898. The effort of many architects, designers and artists resulted in the present shape of the building, which is much more decorative and comfortable than others in Lodz. The palace is functionally connected with a huge cotton production plant, a housing estate for workers and other accompanying buildings. In 1888 Poznanski commissioned a well-known architect Hilary Majewski to alter and enlarge the house. The front wall on Zachodnia Street was extended, the whole building acquired an " L" shape, and neo-renaissance forms were enriched with a winter garden located in the central part of a longer wing on the third floor. The palace was divided into three parts: representative part; dining room, ballroom and small salons: a living part with family and guest rooms and a commercial part on ground floor, which was assigned for offices, working rooms, shops and store rooms. The palace was again extended in 1898, when architects E. Rosenthal, J. Jung and A. Zeligson transformed it into a real residence. The work was finished in 1903, but the initiator of the reconstruction and the founder of the company did not survive to see, it finished, as they died in April 1900. The First World War brought huge losses to industry in Lodz and the family was forced to sell the Palace. It became the centre of the Regional Administration in 1927. Between the Wars it came to be the seat of local administration offices. During the Second World War the seat of German local administration had their offices there. The Museum of History of Lodz was found in 1975. The first director was Antoni Szram. The Museum began its first cultural activity with the exhibition devoted to Piotrkowska Street.
The museums contains one of the best modern art collections in Poland with works by Picasso, Chagall and Max Ernst.

Foto: Tadeusz Karpinski
 

Centralne Muzeum Wlókiennictwa / Central Museum of Textiles

Tel.: (0 42) 684 33 55
Fax.: (0 42) 684 33 55

Info Telefon: (0 42) 683 26 84
Besucher-Email: ctmustex@muzeumwlokiennictwa.pl
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Tues+Sat 10-16 h,
Wed-Fri 9-17 h,
Thurs 10-17 h,
Sun 10-15 h.

Tools, machines and materials from the Stone age to the Present, shown in the former "White Production Halls" errected 1835 for Ludwig Geyer.

 

Muzeum Archeologiczne i Etnograficzne / Museum of Archeology and Ethnology

Tues-Fri 10-16 h,
Sat+Sun 10-15 h

Muzeum Okregowe / Regional Museum

Mon closed.

Archeological, historical and popular art collections.
 

Muzeum w Nieborowie i Arkadii

Fax.: 838 5635

Info Telefon: (0-46) 838 56 20
Besucher-Email: kancelaria@nieborow.art.pl
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Muzeum Narodowego