The Great Emigration of the 19th century was not simply a mass departure, but a story of resilience, disillusionment, and ...

What if the most enduring witnesses to atrocity aren’t people, but the living spores quietly outlasting time? Artist Anna ...

In recent years, plants have stepped out of the background and into the spotlight of contemporary Polish theatre. No longer ...

The exhibition 'The Monument. Central and Eastern Europe 1918-2018' at Warsaw's Xawery Dunikowski Museum transforms monuments ...

Like in many other European countries, the arrival of summer is celebrated on St. John’s Eve in Poland. While part of the Polish custom ‒ bonfires, singing and dancing ‒ resembles other celebrations ...

On the gloomy morning of 11th January 2016, media around the globe reported the death of David Bowie, one of the most original music stars in history. At Culture.pl, we would like to pay tribute to ...

They are works of architecture, historic engineering, and art which connect 12 islands in the city of Wrocław. Soon, the centuries’ old history of over a 100 bridges will be brought to the public by ...

The Polish alphabet has 32 letters, nine of which are unique. Considering that some of the letters form digraphs and even one trigraph, this adds up to a total of 17 signs, which you‘ll unfortunately ...

Modern Poland had no slavery, it had serfdom – a system that according to many contemporary researchers approached some of the most drastic realizations of slavery and played a key role in ...

Polish ‘wycinanki’ are the beautiful paper cut-outs that can be found in shops and museums all over the world. Our step-by-step guide to their construction will help you make these colourful creations ...

Like in most Central European countries, Christmas in Poland is a quaint and much-beloved affair. However, while Germanic traditions, like decorating trees, have spread so far as to be unsurprising, ...

Though Warsaw has rebuilt from ruins, its streets still bear the scars of the 1944 Uprising – bullet holes, shattered ...