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Museum in Sukiennice, Museum in Cloth Hall, Cracow / Grazyna Makara / Agencja Gazeta
Nineteenth century Art Gallery at the Sukiennice
a branch of the National Museum in Krakow. The Gallery, located on the first floor of the Cloth Hall (Market Square (Rynek Główny ) 1 / 3), is the oldest branch of the National Museum. It was founded by Henryk Siemiradzki, who gave it his famous picture called Pochodnie Nerona (Nero's Torches). The first permanent exhibition opened in the Cloth Hall in 1884. Currently, the gallery is the largest permanent exhibition in Poland of nineteenth-century Polish painting and sculpture. The works are exhibited in four rooms: the Enlightenment (Bacciarelli Room), and Romanticism. National Art (Piotr Michalowski Room), Around the Academy (Siemiradzkiego Room, formerly a Prussian Tribute) and Realism, Polish Impressionism, the origins of symbolism (Chełmoński hall, formerly called Quartet (Czwórki). In the Cloth Hall you can admire works by: Arthur Grottger, Jacek Malczewski, Jan Matejko, Alexander Gierymski, Leon Wyczółkowski and Joseph Chełmoński, including the famous Frenzy Polish Art Gallery in the nineteenth century Cloth Hall which also exhibits the sculptures of Jakub Tatarkiewicz, Pius Weloński, Antoni Kurzawa and Antoni Madeyski.