The Museum of Ceramics in Bolesławiec invites visitors to the “From Yugoslavia to Poland” exhibition. The exhibition is dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the arrival in the Bolesławiec region of Polish emigrants from the territory of former Yugoslavia. Visitors can see numerous photographs and documents portraying the realities of Poles’ lives in “those lands.” The exhibits concern the period before the war, the German occupation, as well as the return migration itself and settlement in Bolesławiec County. They are primarily family mementos belonging to private individuals who kindly made them available for the exhibition in response to the museum’s earlier appeal. In addition to documents, the exhibition features numerous objects illustrating the cultural distinctiveness of the population arriving from the territory of former Yugoslavia. These include furniture, clothing, musical instruments and everyday objects.
The sisters of the Bolesławiec Congregation of the Sisters Adorers of the Precious Blood of Christ provided particular assistance in arranging the residential and sacred interiors that make up part of the exhibition. The sisters, who arrived together with the civilian population from Yugoslavia in 1946, loaned the museum their collections of mementos.
Folk ensembles from our area that cultivate South Slavic folklore also responded to the museum’s appeal: “Jutrzenka” and “Ocice,” together with their instructors: Elżbieta Tor-Andrusieczko, Albin Kulesza and Edward Braszko. Thanks to them, as well as to private individuals, visitors can see old trunks in which the emigrants’ belongings were transported, colourful kilims, musical instruments and work tools.
The exhibition will be on display for a relatively short time, only until the end of November. The Museum of Ceramics at ul. Mickiewicza is open Tuesday to Saturday from 10:00 to 16:00, and on Sundays from 11:00 to 16:00.
(information from A. Olejniczak, Museum of Ceramics)