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Cricoteka
In existence since 1980, the Centre for the Documentation of the Art of Tadeusz Kantor, initially acting as the Cricot 2 theatrical centre, was founded at the initiative of the artist himself. For nearly 10 years, it created an institutional base for the functioning of Kantor's theatre, acting simultaneously as a "living archive" of Kantor's theatrical work, and to promote his idea of "not a dead library system, but in the minds and imaginations of subsequent generations." According to the final will of its Master, the Cricoteka's task is to continue to implement this idea, as its basic, most important statutory objective. Based on the original, it stores in Krakow a unique collection of hundreds of objects and costumes from performances at the Cricot 2, such as theoretical writings, drawings and Kantor's projects, video recordings, photographic documentation, and finally one thousand multilingual reviews of magazines and books. This yields the long-term migration of Tadeusz Kantor and his actors, and is constantly being expanded with new items and research developments. Cricoteka is a specific institution, serving as an archive, museum, gallery and research institution. Since 1995 Tadeusz Kantor's Gallery-studio, which was in his apartment, has been part of the Centre and it was there that from 1987 to 1990, Kantor created the last work of his life.