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 ...

When the US dropped nuclear bombs on Japan at the end of WWII, one man in particular was affected by the death and destruction. Having helped create the weapon, he dedicated the rest of his life to ...

Цей список охоплює понад двісті років польської літератури – від шляхетських історій XVIII століття до детективів XXI-го. Тут ...

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

The notoriously difficult phonology of the Polish language has always caused much trouble and confusion for neighbouring nations.

A surprisingly large number of Hollywood characters have names that sound Polish to US ears, but whose Polish background is never discussed, and whose names few real Poles actually have. Never fear, ...

Hollywood has a prolific history of spicing up every story they use as the basis for a film script. The Zookeeper’s Wife is hardly an exception, so if you are dying to know which parts of this ...

Bad Meat? The End of the World? Polish Nobel Prize winner Wisława Szymborska was especially fond of funny names of Polish towns and villages. Since great minds think alike… we take a gander at ...

In 1974 Tadeusz Kantor began the rehearsals for the spectacle The Dead Class at the Krzystofory Gallery in Kraków. In a few months a work was created that turned out to be the most important work ever ...

Marrying for love? You must be kidding. In old Poland, matchmaking sooner resembled the negotiation of an economic pact. Nonetheless, the entire process was accompanied by many colourful elements, ...

One of Poland’s best-known legends, Pan Twardowski is a folk hero often compared to Germany’s Faust. Having signed a pact with the devil, this 16th-century Pole gained wisdom and magic powers, and ...