Toys from readers
A collection of mice and cats sent to him by children who read his books.
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Frankly, not as a priority. With a day in Zakopane the mountains come first, then the Villa Koliba for the architectural style, then the cemetery. This museum is for those staying longer or caught by a wet day. But it is cheap and small and costs little time.
From the late nineteenth century doctors sent tuberculosis patients for its mountain air, and writers, painters and musicians followed. It was also under the more tolerant Austrian rule, and so became a meeting point for people from the Russian and Prussian parts. By 1900 Zakopane was the summer cultural capital of a Poland that did not exist.
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The flat of the writer Kornel Makuszyński in Zakopane, kept as he left it and opened as a museum, a branch of the Tatra Museum. Makuszyński (1884-1953) is among Poland's best-known children's writers, and his books are still read and taught. The best known are The Mischievous Goat, The Devil from the Seventh Grade and Two Who Stole the Moon, and many were made into films and series. For any Pole who grew up in the twentieth century, the name is part of childhood. He lived in this flat after the war until his death. It is preserved with his furniture, library, papers and paintings — he collected art and befriended artists — and even his collection of toy mice and cats sent to him by readers. A frank point: this museum means more to Poles than to a foreign visitor. Anyone who has not read Makuszyński will see the flat of a writer they do not know. But it is small, cheap and close by, and it gives a glimpse of how the literary set lived in Zakopane.
A collection of mice and cats sent to him by children who read his books.
He collected paintings and befriended artists, and the flat shows it.
A glimpse of how writers and artists lived in the town.
Villa Opolanka, Tytusa Chałubińskiego street, Zakopane