Art Gallery in Koziniec

The Art Gallery, dedicated to Wlodzimierz and Jerzy Kulczycki, is located in the vicinity of the famous House Pod Jedlami [Under the Firs], in a brick building in manorial style erected in the early 1920s by the Koziański family. Purchased from the family heirs by the Bureau of the Cabinet after World War II, the Koziański House served in the People's Poland as a rep-resentative residence visited by those in power including Prime Minister Józef Cyrankiewicz, which accounts for the then popular name of the building, 'Cyrankiewiczówka'. Following the exertions of some of the Tatra Museum staff, in 1981 the municipal authorities conveyed the building to the museum with a view to converting it into a gallery of eastern carpets of an earlier donation made by Jerzy Kulczycki's widow, Anna Piotrowicz-Kulczycka. The Kulczycki Gallery is first and foremost at the service of the Art Department. Collections, which are not part of the museum's permanent exhibitions, are put on show here. This is carried out within such thematic series as e.g. the 'Tatra Landscape: The Tatra Mountains and the Region of Podhale in Watercolour' or 'Portraits in the Collection of the Tatra Museum'.