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National Museum Warsaw and Partage Plus project awarded with the Sybilla 2015 prize

The National Museum Warsaw (MNW) received the Polish Sybilla 2015 award in the category "Best Digitisation Project" for the participation in the Partage Plus project. The international project kicked off in March 2012 with the aim of digitizing and 3D scanning more than 79.000 art works from the Art Nouveau period. All items were made available via the Euopeana platform and can be accessed under the following link. The Partage Plus team, composed of 25 partner institutions from all over Europe, feels immensely honoured by this award and thanks the organizers of Sybilla 2015 for this mention.

Art Nouveau World Day celebrations at The Weiss (WWMF)

For the Art Nouveau World Day the Wojciech Weiss Museum Foundation has prepared a unique reconstruction of the interior which was first presented at the Exhibition of Architecture and Interiors in the Garden Surroundings in Krakow in 1912. The exhibition was one of the pioneering series of exhibits in Central Europe, referring to the Ebenezer Howard’s concept of the garden city. It showed a modern and practical architecture in harmony with nature: craftsman, working class and farmer houses, as well as a suburban manor house. For the first time in Poland, it also stressed the role of functionalism derived from the Vienna Workshop activities. Presented furniture were made to fit out a child's room on the first floor of an exhibition pavilion, built as a suburban manor house. They were designed by an architect and graphic designer, Edmund Bartłomiejczyk. The inlays refer to the native design on folk textiles from central Poland. Furniture were made in factories of an industrialist Joseph Sperling (Sperling bust by Henry Hochman, 1905, on display). After the show, through Sperling’s family relations, the furniture went to Wojciech Weiss’ villa, and there have been lovingly used by the family for one hundred years.