Adam Mickiewicz Museum of Literature
The Museum of Literature, named for poet Adam Mickiewicz, was founded in 1950 in a historic tenement house on Warsaw's Old Town Market Square. It holds manuscripts, personal effects and archival material connected to Mickiewicz and other major Polish writers, and includes affiliated branch museums dedicated to individual authors such as Władysław Broniewski and Maria Dąbrowska. It organizes temporary and permanent exhibitions on Polish literary history.
Now on view
10 exhibitions
“‘I Am a Political Animal.’ Jerzy Giedroyc and ‘Kultura’ 1947–2000”
EXHIBITION EXTENDED UNTIL 13 DECEMBER. OPENING: 25 June, 6:00 PM OPENING WEEKEND: 27–28 June (during the opening weekend, admission to the exhibition costs one złoty). In the Year of Jerzy Giedroyc, established by the…
Adam Mickiewicz 1798–1855
The permanent exhibition „Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855” is a biographical display at the Museum of Literature, presenting the poet's figure, his milieu and family, his political activity and literary work. The…
Alexandra Grant. Word. Image. Space
September 25 – January 12, 2025 The Adam Mickiewicz Museum of Literature in Warsaw is pleased to present the first solo exhibition in a European museum of the North American artist Alexandra Grant, known for her love of…
Me, Witold Gombrowicz
The exhibition draws on the writer's biography. Its commentary consists of quotations from Biografia by Witold Gombrowicz, prepared by the writer for the journal L’Herne, as well as passages from his Dziennik, Testament…
The Apartment of Maria Dąbrowska
In August 1917, Maria and Marian Dąbrowski moved into apartment no. 31 in the tenement house at 40 Polna Street (today's address: 1 Progi Street, apt. 13). The three-room, hundred-square-metre apartment was, by the…
Opening of the exhibition “Next Door to Pola Gojawiczyńska”
On 15 April (Wednesday), the exhibition “Next Door to Pola Gojawiczyńska” opened at the Museum of Literature. Organized as part of the Year of Pola Gojawiczyńska in Masovia, the event was part of the opening of the…
Słowacki in Lebanon. Exhibition at the Monastery of St. Anthony in Ghazir
Agnieszka Papieska, Jan Owczarek
“I would like to be in Lebanon once more” – wrote Juliusz Słowacki in a letter to his mother, sent from Florence in 1837. In November 2022 the poet will symbolically return to Ghazir, where the second edition of the…
Exhibition “Parnassus of Warsaw. The 100th Anniversary of the Warsaw City Literary Prize”
Grażyna Ryfka, Martyna Replin-Bala
EXHIBITION EXTENDED UNTIL 15 NOVEMBER 2026. The exhibition Parnassus of Warsaw. The 100th Anniversary of the Warsaw City Literary Prize was prepared to mark the jubilee of the establishment of the Warsaw City Literary…
Spring and Wine, or Skamander Otherwise
Spring and Wine, or About Skamander Differently The history of the best-known Polish poetic group, Skamander, is inseparably bound up with the history of Polish independence. The year 2019 marks a century since the…
Maria Konopnicka Exhibition.
The Adam Mickiewicz Museum of Literature in Warsaw invites you to the exhibition Maria Konopnicka. It presents the figure of the distinguished Polish writer of the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The biography of…