In December 2016 Professor Krzysztof Skórczewski donated new series of his engravings to the PAAS Print Room.
The Scientific Library of the PAAS and the PAS in Cracow and the Archive of Science of the PAS and the PAAS invite for the exhibition “Krzysztof Skórczewski – Engravings. Donation for the PAAS Print Room”, available in the Archive of Science 8 May – 6 June 2016. [Read more].
Conservation of the most valuable relics of Polish language from H. Łopaciński’s collection.
The Scientific Library of the PAAS and the PAS in Cracow invites all readers on the exhibition of two manuscripts renovated thanks to the 2015 grant from The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.
The manuscripts chosen for the project were the anthology of sermons and hagiographies written in Cracow ca. 1450, and the anthology of invectives and condolences from the 18th century.
The exhibition is open 1-18 December 2015 in the Library’s Main Reading Room.
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2 March – 8 May 2016 we invite you to the International Culture Centre for the exhibition Tempus fugit. On Time and Transience. It presents works of art from the PAAS Print Room concerned with the passing of time and falling into oblivion. [Read more].
5 November 2015 in the Small Hall of the PAAS we celebrated with Ms. Anna Żulińska transfer of the 19th-20th century part of the Żuliński’s family archive, that included the papers from Tadeusz Żuliński, activist member of the Polish Socialist Party, commandant of the Polish Military Organisation in Warsaw 1914-1915, lieutenant in the Brigade I of the Polish Legions, who died 5 November 1915, after he was wounded in the battle of Kamianukha (Volhynia, currently Ukraine).
More details in Joanna M. Dziewulska’s article “Pamiątki po „Ludziach legendowych”. Dar Anny Żulińskiej dla Zbiorów Specjalnych Biblioteki Naukowej PAU i PAN w Krakowie” published in the vol. 60 of the “Annual of the Scientific Library of the PAAS and the PAS in Cracow”.
17 October 2014 in the Presidential Palace in Warsaw Minister of Culture and National Heritage Małgorzata Omilanowska presented the 1st edition of the “Memory of Poland” list – national list from the UNESCO programme “Memory of the World”. One of the objects included belongs to the Scientific Library of the PAAS and the PAS in Cracow collections. It was A Brief and Precise Description of the Administration and Conditions in the Wieliczka and Bochnia Salt Mines in the Year of Christ 1518 (rkps sygn. 942), the oldest 16th-century copy of the 1518 manuscript drawn up by Stanisław Tarnowski of Nieszawa in regards to the mines’ administrative reform by Jan Boner. It is a precise description of the internal structure and operation of a centralised royal enterprise which then hired over 1’000 employees. Full description and digitised version of this document are available on the „Memory of Poland” website, and the facsimile, issued in 2000, is available in our Reading Rooms.
We also invite you to see a video from the event on the TVP website.
Ostatnie zasyłam pożeganie… Roman Żuliński’s 1864 secret messages donated to the Scientific Library of the PAAS and the PAS in Cracow.
5 August 2015 in the Small Hall of the PAAS we celebrated with Ms. Anna Żulińska transfer of her gift for the Scientific Library of the PAAS and the PAS in Cracow: secret messages written in the Warsaw Citadel by Roman Żuliński on the eve of his execution, 4 August 1864.
The event took place on the 150th anniversary of the execution of five members of the Polish National Government: Romuald Traugutt, Jan Jeziorański, Rafał Krajewski, Józef Toczyski and Roman Żuliński.
On the occasion of this event we published the messages’ short monograph edited by Dr. Karolina Grodziska Ostatnie zasyłam pożegnanie….
In July 2014 professor Jan Machnik, member of the PAAS, has generously offered to the Scientific Library of the PAAS and the PAS in Cracow, a unique issue of handwritten periodical “Tygodnik Obozowy” from September 1915.
The gift was described by prof. Machnik in the article “O „Tygodniku Okopowym” w Legionach Polskich”, published in vol. 59 of the “Annual of the Scientific Library of the PAAS and the PAS in Cracow”.