A monumental example of 19th-century industrial architecture, reflecting Warsaw's transformation during industrialization.

As daguerreotypes of insurgents in ‘czamary’ and mourning crinolines attest, fashion, design and photography became tools of resistance during the January Uprising. Under the partitions, Poles ...

The country whose culture proved particularly influential for Wajda was Japan, though his connection to it was initially ...

An international argument between Poland and the USSR nearly erupted due to an unusual triumphant gesture from the pole vault champion at the 1980 Olympics. Władysław Kozakiewicz's beaming face and ...

Like in most Central European countries, Christmas in Poland is a quaint and much-beloved affair. However, while Germanic traditions, like decorating trees, have spread so far as to be unsurprising, ...

‘For whosoever shalt stealeth this book shall findeth himself hung from a tree!’ So reads an admonition written on Polish bookplates. Did the spell really work? Let us trace the road of this literary ...

Everyone knows that Zamość is one of the world’s few embodiments of the popular Renaissance concept of an ideal city. But it wasn’t only in the Renaissance that the perfect model of human settlement ...

‘Let’s not live from guest to guest’, Wielopolska warned. Stryjeńska emphasized that the most important thing is to ‘control your anger when you get into a rage’. Ipohorska in turn recalled the times ...

Adam Mickiewicz Institute is delighted to announce that the Polish Pavilion The Poetics of Necessity, designed by Zofia Jaworowska, Michał Sikorski, and Petro Vladimirov, has won the 2023 London ...

In honour of the start of the European Championships this summer, here’s a look back at some Polish athletes who not only achieved great success, but broke records in their sports. From skiing in the ...

The first Polish skis? Two boards – one ash wood, the other beech – thin like a school ruler, tied onto the feet with rope. But the enthusiasm for these ‘swift boards’ and ‘travelling by ski’ soon ...

The concept of a Grand Tour was introduced in the 1770s by an Englishman, Richard Lassels, to describe a journey serving to supplement education, develop aesthetic taste, acquire practical skills, ...