Tatra Museum in Zakopane
The Kornel Makuszyński Museum
Opolanka House
address: Zakopane, 15, Tetmajera Street, tel. (+48)18-20-122-63,
Oficjalna strona Muzeum Tatrzańskiego: www.muzeumtatrzanskie.pl
The museum is based in a tenement-building erected in the 1930s in the then
fashionable functional style. Kornel Makuszyński (1884-1953), the author of
extremely popular children's books and columnist, visited Zakopane regularly
between the World Wars and in 1945 settled in the 'Opolanka' together with his
wife. The Makuszyńskis brought to Zakopane the surviving family and book
collections. Makuszyński lived in the Opolanka till his death. In 1965 his
wife, Janina Gluzińska-Makuszyńska, donated the whole art collection, an ample
library, the archive and memorabilia of her husband, to the Ministry of Culture
of Art. In 1966 a branch of the Tatra Museum was opened in the writer's
apartment, with his widow appointed the lifelong custodian. Both the building
and the apartment have remained almost unchanged to this day.
On display in the museum interiors is the writer's art collection including
18th- and 19th-century furniture, works of well-known Polish artists with
Stanisław Wyspiański, Julian Fałat, Kazimierz Sichulski, Władysław Skoczylas,
Zofia Stryjeńska and Maja Berezowska, a collection of art glass (Polish and
French), porcelain (Chinese, Japanese, Meissen and Saxon), fabrics and rugs, an
ample book collection and the writer's archive of photographs, documents and
personal souvenirs.
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| Janina Makuszyńska's room.
| Kornel Makuszyński's room.
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Zbigniew Ładygin ysladyg@cyf-kr.edu.pl
Last update D&Z 22 February 1996