Culture
International Comedy Festival WROCEK
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Wrocek is the only such festival in the country and one of the few in Europe. The whole formed by a few people who have put in him all his heart. International Comedy Festival Wrocek is unique because everyone here, regardless of age, gender and education, something for everyone.[Concerts & Festivals]
Lower Silesian Science Festival
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Lower Silesian Science Festival is an annual event of popular science is organized by universities and research institutes in Wroclaw. The aim of the festival is to spread and promote science and society closer to problems that it solves. The festival is to convince the public that knowledge is an essential instrument for shaping the region and that the level of knowledge-based society will determine our place in the European Union.[Concerts & Festivals]
Speedway Grand Prix
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Sports speedway in Poland has over 50 years of tradition. Wroclaw is one of the few cities in our country, where the discipline stands at the highest level of both sport and organization. Speedway competitions are played in Wroclaw's historic Olympic Stadium. Every year since 1995, with minor interruptions to Wroclaw attracts the best speedway riders of the world on the occasion organized by the Wroclaw Sports Association competitions Grand Prix - Individual Speedway World Championship on.[Concerts & Festivals]
The Wroclaw Marathon
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The Wroclaw Marathon reflects a great history of running in Poland. Runners come to Wroclaw with delight and willingness to take part in the run. The origins of the marathon in Wroclaw go back to 1983, when for the first time 131 runners run the route from Sobotka to Wroclaw. It was 1st Slezan Marathon. Participants run this route for 10 years, next fifteen marathons took place in Wroclaw.[Concerts & Festivals]
Survival Review of Young Art in extreme conditions
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Review of Young Art in extreme conditions Survival is the only festival of this scale art in public space in Poland. The name is not accidental Review - SURVIVAL evokes associations with the art of survival. The project is carried out in areas that go beyond the traditional institutions of exhibition. [Concerts & Festivals]
Visionica Prix – International Festival of Television Art
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International Festival of Television Art Visionica Prix is the first and only one in Poland this type of event, jointly organized by the City of Wroclaw and TVP SA, in collaboration with the television program ARTE and Telekanal Culture. The theme of the festival is the place of television in contemporary culture, society and space multidirectional communication from the Internet to mobile solutions.[Concerts & Festivals]
Era New Horizons
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International Film Festival Era New Horizons is a festival that is dominated by unconventional cinema, tough, independent, artistic, evoking emotions and stormy discussions, avoiding the viewer indifferent.[Concerts & Festivals]
International Theatre Festival Dialog – Wroclaw
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Festival has not only serve the exchange of experiences, but try to diagnose the most interesting and controversial theatrical phenomena in Europe today. The participants of the festival can be teams from all countries of Europe, in the case of Russia - including all of its territory in Asia.[Concerts & Festivals]
Forum Musicum
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Forum Musicum is a recurring cultural event, taking place in Wroclaw since 2003, is a music festival the past centuries, performed on period instruments and using the historical performance practice. Forum festival - celebration of music is the meeting place of a select group of public artists from the Polish and the world.[Concerts & Festivals]
May of Early Music
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The festival takes place since 1992, is a project of great achievements. The idea behind the festival is to present music of the Middle Ages, Renaissance and Baroque instruments on the copies of previous epochs and using ancient techniques of enforcement.[Concerts & Festivals]
Wroclaw Guitar Festival
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Wroclaw Guitar Festival, held annually in autumn, is a real feast of guitar music. The main idea of the Festival is its original name - Guitar . It is the present possibility of joining the noble sound of the guitar sounds of other instruments.[Concerts & Festivals]
Ster Century Cinema
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Ster Century was a cinema company in Ireland and the UK. There was one Ster Century cinema in Dublin, Ireland, and 6 in the UK.[Cinemas]
PIF State Film Institution – Odra Film
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It is an institution financed with Lower Silesia Voivodship budget, that publishes feature films, organises festivals and cinema premieres, as well as Gdynia festival replica – ”The Most Modern Polish Cinema”, and initiated the ”Wroclaw Film Spring” festival in April.[Cinemas]
5D Extreme
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5D Cinema is the place where the film takes the viewer all the senses. 3D image and digital surround sound is today not enough, it's time for new experiences. 5D Cinema Extreme is an example of the current state of the art forms of entertainment in our country that we can confidently call it the future of entertainment.[Cinemas]
Helios
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Helios Movie Centre is a multiplex cinema operator in Poland. The first cinema was opened at 1993.[Cinemas]
Cinema City
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Cinema City International is the largest multiplex cinema theatre operator in Central and Eastern Europe. Company is based in Israel. This modern network operates many cinemas across Poland including of course Wroclaw.[Cinemas]
Multikino
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Multikino is one of the biggest networks of cinemas in Poland. It belongs to Polish company ITI Group which also operates on media market.[Cinemas]
Arka Dance Theatre
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Arka Dance Theatre was set up in 1999, started with a performance"Miedzy nami czlowiekami" presented in The Capitol Musical Theatre in Wroclaw. Dance Theatre Arka in Wroclaw results from Jacek Gebura and a group of people seeking for a kind of theatre where the leading means of expression is movement.[Operas & Theatres]
Teatr na Bruku
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Teatr na bruku is a private professional theatre company created in 1992 by Bogdan Michalewski (who graduated from the Theatre Academy in Wroclaw) and Marek Oliwa (who graduated from the Theatre Academy in Krakow).[Operas & Theatres]
Wroclaw Mime Theatre
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Theatre specialists unanimously agree that the Wroclaw Mime Theatre played a major role in the development of mime art in the 20th century. The Wroclaw Mime Theatre has presented its productions on every continent except the Antarctic.[Operas & Theatres]
Polish Theatre in Wroclaw
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The Polish Theatre is one of the most intriguing places on Wroclaw’s cultural stage. It is located in the city centre, close to the railway and bus stations, as well as many hotels. The large foyer areas, on each of the theatre’s three floors, may be freely arranged.[Operas & Theatres]
Impart Centre of Arts
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Established in 1970, Impart has played a vital role in Wroclaw's cultural development ever since. A bastion of the arts in all their forms, the Impart Centre regularly hosts theatre, cabaret, music and other artistic performances in its two auditoriums with acts ranging from the popular to the obscure.[Operas & Theatres]
Capitol Music Theatre
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The Capitol Musical Theatre has been enriching Wroclaw's cultural life for many years with concerts, variety shows and musicals. Colourful inspirations of world class performances, such as “Fiddler on the Roof”, became part of the artistic landscape of the city.[Operas & Theatres]
Theatre of the Dolls
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Teatr Lalek (Theatre of the Dolls or Wroclaw Puppet Theatre) is best known by English speakers as The Wroclaw Puppet Theatre. It was established in 1946, principally as a childrens' entertainment theatre, which also toured the villages of Lower Silesia.[Operas & Theatres]
Teatr Wspolczesny - Contemporary Theatre
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The Wroclaw Contemporary Theatre is appreciated for its clearly composed repertory, serious consideration for the audience and for its excellent troupe. The Wroclaw Contemporary Theatre has already gained its experience as an international congress organizer, also hosting many spectacular cultural and business events.[Operas & Theatres]
Platon Art Gallery
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Platon Art Gallery is situated in a stylish, neo-Gothic building in Krupnicza street in Wroclaw, which is also the seat of Platon Legal Centre. The entire facility is located in the Four Temples District, a prestigious location for local culture and art.[Museums & Galleries]
The WRO Art Center
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The WRO Art Center was opened in 2008 by the WRO Center for Media Art Foundation, an independent organization specializing in the areas where contemporary art and culture intersect with developing media. The WRO Art Center’s mission includes organizing exhibitions, screenings, lectures and workshops, and developing projects that encompass art, publishing, education and publicity – all in the realm of contemporary art.[Museums & Galleries]
Design - BWA Wroclaw
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Design is placed right in the city centre. We act as 'a city carpet', walking beyond the physical space of the gallery. Into the city, into the country and far away. The gallery's new offer is 'expanded' design, critical towards culture of an object.[Museums & Galleries]
Studio - BWA Wroclaw
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Studio was a former workshop of BWA Wroclaw, for some time now it has been an independent presenting, organising, exhibiting and workshop unit. It is a place of a quick reaction to the artists, activists and theoreticians' needs.[Museums & Galleries]
Glass and Ceramics - BWA Wroclaw
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Glass and Ceramics (Szklo I Ceramika) is a minimal space presenting glass and ceramic works, unique objects, designs, installations made by contemporary artists with the innovative use of both materials.[Museums & Galleries]
Awangarda - BWA Wroclaw
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Awangarda is the biggest BWA gallery in Wroclaw. Its aim is to show and to make popular artists' current activities with the background of cultural problems. Awangarda presents classics of Polish contemporary art, thematic shows of domestic and European art, borders of visual art, theatre and film, performance and music.[Museums & Galleries]
BWA Wroclaw – Galleries of Contemporary Art
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BWA Wroclaw is a cultural institution financed by the city of Wroclaw. Its main activity focuses on organising and presenting contemporary art exhibitions. It also shows interest in interaction between art and other areas of life as well as in search for the meaning of art in the social context.[Museums & Galleries]
The Wroclaw University Museum
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The Wroclaw University Museum has existed since 1992. It displays the history of the University since 1702 until now. The collection and exhibition include items related to history (furniture, equipment).[Museums & Galleries]
Museum of Natural History – Wroclaw University
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The Museum of Natural History, Wroclaw University, is the largest institution of this kind in Poland. It came into existence in 1814. Its collections comprise numerous unique specimens of extinct and rare species such as the Great Auk, Passenger Pigeon, Carolina Parakeet, Huia or Marsupial Wolf.[Museums & Galleries]
Post and Telecommunications Museum
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The Post and Telecommunications Museum, financed with the budget of Lower Silesia Voivodship Government, has existed since 1956. It carries out exhibitory and educational activity.[Museums & Galleries]
Panorama of the Battle of Raclawice
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Panorama of the Battle of Raclawice in Wroclaw, an impressive relic of 19th-century century mass culture, is one of only few examples of this genre preserved in Europe. The large painting (15x114m) 'transfers' the viewer into an altogether different time, a reality of its own, by artfully combining painterly devices (special kind of perspective) and technical effects (lighting, artificial terrain, dark and usually tortuous passage to the viewing platform).[Museums & Galleries]
Ethnographic Museum
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It is ethnography's responsibility to revive cultural trends which best reflect social processes along with regional and ethnic differences. At the same time ethnography plays essential role in the territories marked with people's relocations and consequently with serious clash of cultures and traditions. Lower Silesia by all means should be treated as such.[Museums & Galleries]
The National Museum in Wroclaw
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The National Museum in Wroclaw occupies the building designed by an architect Karl Friedrich Endell and erected in 1883 – 1886. Museum was established on 28 March 1947 as the State Museum in process of organization, on 11 July 1948 it was officially inaugurated to the public.[Museums & Galleries]
Geology Museum
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Geological Museum of the Geology Institute of the Wroclaw University has existed since 1866. The museum collects and protects geological and paleontologic collections. It has both paleozoological and paleobothanical items.[Museums & Galleries]
Museum of the Archdiocese
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The Museum of the Archdiocese has existed since 1898. The museum collects, conservates and displays artistic and historical works of art. The exhibition includes sculpture, painting, textile art (14th – 19th century) and ancient relics: mummies, wedge alphabet plates, olive lamps etc.[Museums & Galleries]
Mineralogy Museum
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The Mineralogy Museum has existed since 1812. The museum collects and exhibits minerals, precious stones, gems and meteorites.[Museums & Galleries]
Historical Museum in the Royal Palace
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The Royal Palace, former residence of Prussian kings, is an exceptional place, the largest museum projects in the postwar history of Wroclaw. Thanks to thorough modernization, he became a modern exhibition center of the City Museum in Wroclaw, and the seat of his branch of the Historical Museum.[Museums & Galleries]
Museum of Cemetery Art
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The Old Jewish Cemetery is the only gravesite of the turn of the 19th and 20th century, which is still preserved in Wroclaw. It is also an inventive and unique composition of grave sculptures and smaller architectures, harmoniously coexisting with a properly maintained and carefully cultivated green.[Museums & Galleries]
Museum of Metal Engraving Arts
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Museum was open in 1965 as a unique unit specialised in Metal engraving arts. Despite from collecting exhibits the museum produces its own medals. For 30 years of its existence it has created over 100 medal titles, designed by artists cooperating with the museum.[Museums & Galleries]
Military Museum
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Wroclaw Arsenal, (also known as Mikolajski because of its proximity to the Mikolajska Gate), is one of the most appealing pieces of Wroclaw's urban architecture. Its raw exterior is quite deceptive - upon entering the building the interior captivates one with its unique carpentry constructions and the yard is further enhanced with addition of two turrets.[Museums & Galleries]
Museum of City Art
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The Museum of City Art is located in the Town Hall of Wroclaw. The Town Hall is a unique monument of secular Gothic architecture which was built in stages from the end of the 13th century until the first half of the 16th century.[Museums & Galleries]
Museum of Archeology
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The Museum of Archeology is 185 years old. It was established in 1815 initially with private and post-secular archeological collections. The founder of the museum was J.G.G. Busching, a man of outstanding merit in modern museum science including archival studies and librarian science.[Museums & Galleries]
Museum of Man
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The Museum of Man was opened in 2002 in the building of Collegium Anthropologicum and is a joint venture of the Institute of Anthropology, Polish Academy of Sciences and the Department of Anthropology, the University of Wroclaw. The collection of the Museum of Man is open for public and is used for both research and education.[Museums & Galleries]
Museum of Architecture
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The inherent problem with any museum of architecture is that you can't really exhibit architecture. Anyway this is a decent enough place with a permanent collection of stained glass windows and stoves, and temporary exhibitions in both architecture and photography, which are more often than not worth popping in for.[Museums & Galleries]
