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This album on Polish museums, compiled under the guidance of Dorota Folga-Januszewska, a distinguished expert on the subject, presents the history, present-day situation, and future prospects of Poland’s museums, focusing on the principal institutions and their collections, their most treasured exhibits, and new ideas in museum development.

What did Polish roads, towns, villages look like a hundred year ago? What faces and clothes did the lens of an old camera catch? What events, customs, and places have been preserved in the yellowish, faded photographs found in the State Archives? Just open this album to see.

Poland 100 Years is a richly illustrated album prepared on the occasion of the centenary of Poland’s independence celebrated in 2018.

After “Paderewski” and “Mościcki”, “Piłsudski” is another volume devoted to eminent politicians of the Second Polish Republic. Józef Piłsudski is undoubtedly one of the most distinguished people in Polish history and culture.

On 16 January 2019, we celebrated the centennial of the appointment of the eminent Polish pianist and composer, Ignacy Jan Paderewski, as the prime minister of the independent Republic of Poland.

Following The Deluge (Potop), Nights and Days (Noce i dnie) is the second album in our series dedicated to great Polish movies.

„Motherland is the land and the graves”, and „nations by losing memory, are losing life", and the memory of nations is preserved in the stone cities of their dead – the necropoleis, which record our past.

Barely three weeks after the tragic events of the May Coup, on 1 June 1926, the National Assembly appointed Ignacy Mościcki as President of the Republic of Poland.

This richly illustrated book by Alina Kręcisz provides several accounts from a journey to the island of Sri Lanka, following the footsteps of famous individuals from the turn of the 20th century — Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz and Bronisław Malinowski.

Slavic mythology by Jakub Bobrowski and Mateusz Wrona invites the Reader on a journey into the land of ancient Slavs and beliefs which had defined their world.

The Łazienki Królewskie Park (Royal Baths Park) in Warsaw is a unique place where beautiful architecture meets nature. The entire park complex which consists of three gardens, the Palace on the Isle, Old Orangery, Myślewicki Palace, Amphitheatre and other architecturally interesting buildings, covers the area of 76 hectares.

The Book of Polish Dragons features historical-ethnographic portraits of 25 mythical beasts – dragons, monstrous snakes and other outlandish creatures  once believed to have inhabited the Polish lands.