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They Call Her the Polish 'Titanic'

Category: Granaries on Ołowianka Island -> Current exhibitions

Published: 27.11.2009

On November 26, seventy years passed since the Polish legendary ocean liner M/S Piłsudski, one of the largest and most modern passenger ships that sailed under the Polish flag, sank off the English coast.

Meeting the Sea

Category: Granaries on Ołowianka Island -> Current exhibitions

Published: 29.05.2009

A real treat for maritime art lovers - from May 29 the exhibition: "Meeting the Sea" - the 7th from the series "Polish Artists about the Sea" is on show in Granaries at Olowianka Island. The exhibition presents works of the founder of the Polish Marine Painters Circle - Włodzimierz Nałęcz as well as its most outstanding members: Wojciech Weiss, Franciszek Szwoch, Wacław Zaboklicki and Emil Lindeman.

Deluge, flood

Category: Granaries on Ołowianka Island -> Current exhibitions

Published: 02.07.2008

How to control water? Are we threatened by flooding? How to protect ourselves against flooding? Those are the questions addressed by our new exhibition which opened on 30 June in the Spichlerze Hall on Ołowianka Island.

Women Painting the Sea

Category: Granaries on Ołowianka Island -> Current exhibitions

Published: 28.05.2008

"Women Painting the Sea" is a continuation of a series presenting maritime and river landscape paintings from the Polish museums’ collections. This year’s exhibition attempts to introduce to the wider public works of Polish women artists from the 19th and 20th centuries.

Wild Nature

Category: Granaries on Ołowianka Island -> Current exhibitions

Published: 29.04.2008

From 30th April you can see phenomenal wild nature photographs in the Polish Maritime Museum. The international showcase is made up of pictures which won the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2007 award organised by the BBC Wildlife Magazine and Natural History Museum in London.

Exhibition: Michał Leszczyński-Lester

Category: Granaries on Ołowianka Island -> Current exhibitions

Published: 26.02.2008

Michał Antoni Leszczyński, better known in the Atlantic region as Michael Lester, had a life as colourful and full of contrasts as his pictures, filled with vivid tropical colours and unbelievable sunshine. He was a patriot in exile, an artist and a sailor. His hands were skilful at mending the rough canvas in his sailboat and equally skilful at painting on canvas.

Nature Morte

Category: Granaries on Ołowianka Island -> Current exhibitions

Published: 18.10.2007

Carl Linnaeus and Michel Östlund together make a duo which provided the basis for the Nature Morte Exhibition which will be inaugurated on the 25th of October in the Polish Maritime Museum in Gdańsk. The exhibition is one of the events celebrating Linnaeus’ 300th birthday and has been organised by the Consulate General of Sweden in Gdansk.

Kronan - The Treasure Ship

Category: Granaries on Ołowianka Island -> Current exhibitions

Published: 29.06.2007

A real treat for history and archaeology enthusiasts! Poland's very first exhibition of objects coming from the legendary Swedish royal shipwreck Kronan.

For the freedom of sailing

Category: Granaries on Ołowianka Island -> Current exhibitions

Published: 19.06.2007

Heroic admirals, fierce wars conducted with Sweden and memorable battles for free sailing on the Baltic Sea are the main topic of our new exhibition entitled "For the freedom of sailing. The Dutch Admiralty fighting for access to the Baltic Sea in the 16th–17th centuries". The exhibition is available in the Granary Hall (Spichlerze) on Ołowianka Island from the 20th of June.

Polish artists and the sea

Category: Granaries on Ołowianka Island -> Current exhibitions

Published: 17.05.2007

Jan Stanisławski was a leading artist representing Art Nouveau in Polish painting; he was also a great teacher for a whole generation of artists who had a significant impact on developments in Polish painting in the first part of the 20th century. This year it has been one hundred years since his death.

Polish Marine Activity

Category: Granaries on Ołowianka Island -> Events

Published: 29.03.2007

It is with great pleasure that we announce completion of our work aiming at updating the exhibition Polish Marine Activity in the years 1918-1945 which is now being shown within the framework of our permanent exhibition Poles on the Seas of the World. The Chairman of the Polish Senate Parliament Chamber, Mr Bogdan Borusewicz, has the honorary patronage of the exhibition.

The World of Large and Small Railways

Category: Granaries on Ołowianka Island -> Current exhibitions

Published: 23.06.2006

For every grown man and boy the toy railway is one toy which they have always dreamed about and which they will remember all their life. They almost certainly remember emotions which accompanied unpacking the box found on Christmas, laying convoluted tracks, putting locomotive and wagons in correct order and making all the machinery move around with characteristic whistling sounds.