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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.

Lecture - "School of Łopieński"

On the 11th of October 2012 Piotr Czyż (MNW) held a lecture on the "School of Łopieński" during a conference entitled "Wielość w jedności. Techniki wklęsłodruku w Polsce po 1900 roku" (Multiplicity in Unity. Intaglio Techniques in Poland after 1900). Piotr was talking about etchers of the first two decades of the 20th century in Warsaw. Occasion for this lecture was the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the "Society of Friends of Graphic Arts" in Poland, which will be celebrated on the 9th of November 2012.

If you want to find out more about Ignacy Łopieński and his circle, check out the Partage Plus Blog!