Retro-konstrukcje. Widmo muzeum w krakowskich Sukiennicach
Retro Constructions. Specter of a Museum in the Sukiennice in Krakow

Summary/Abstract: The article elaborates on the specter of a 19th-century museum, that has haunted the Gallery of the 19th-century Polish Art in the Sukiennice in Krakow, Poland, for several dozens of years.The first floor of the Sukiennice compasses of the collection of the National Museum in Krakow since 1883. Paradoxically, frequent changes of content and design of that exposition had erased the memory of its initial look and there has appeared a stereotype of a 19th-century source of its distinctive qualities.It was Mieczysław Porębski who created a pastiche of 19th-century art museum in the Sukiennice gallery in 1975. Innovative at its time, Porębski’s concept accompanied similar solutions by Michael Jaffé and by Timothy Clifford. They all applied the Victorian rules of art display only partially and the result was a very particular visitor experience.

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