MIŁOSZ | IN SEARCH OF A HOMELAND - NEW EDITION OF THE EXHIBITION IN THE KRASNOGRUDA MANOR

MIŁOSZ | IN SEARCH OF A HOMELAND - NEW EDITION OF THE EXHIBITION IN THE KRASNOGRUDA MANOR

The exhibition uses an extended formula presenting a novel approach to Czesław Miłosz's achievements. It is a permanent exhibition in the renovated poet's family house in Krasnogruda. It is available to all visitors all year long.

The aim of the alterations in the exhibition and additions was to create conditions for working with different age groups visiting Krasnogruda manor. The experience of the past three years of the exhibition had prompted us to give the exhibition rooms capability of conducting interactive activities through the creation of workshop space. Therefore, most of the exhibition in the new shape gained the ability to conduct interactive group activities  in relation to the themes they would be devoted to. Particular rooms have been assigned the following themes:

•      Returner - return of the poet to the people and places of his youth and childhood: "In my old age I decided to visit places where I wandered long ago in my early youth". [poem Return]

•      Traveler - the notions of motherland, home, travel, return and enrootment in relation to the biography of the Nobel Prize winner and his work.

•      Exile - problem of dispossession of modern man, loss of contact with spirituality and loss of religious imagination. Reference to the twentieth century as a time of disasters, wars, totalitarianism, change of borders, exiles and returns that became Miłosz's experience in his long life.

•      Lover - a room dedicated to women important in Miłosz's life, those he met on his way or to whom he dedicated his poetry.

•      Host - a room dedicated to the memory of the place and to the former inhabitants Krasnogruda, to family.

•      Philologist [Library] - the space of a real library, of access to the digitized collections concerning the heritage of the former Republic.

•      Naturalist - a room dedicated to environmental education, childhood sensitivity to the natural world, with showcases with herbaria, collections of stones, bird nests, and plants

•      Pantry - the space of smells and tastes, old recipes, preserves, herbal infusions, and the riches of the regional culinary knowledge.

•      The "Song of Porcelain" Literary Café - the space of poetry readings, literary debates, discussions and chamber concerts.

On the room walls, there are small blocks with printed poems that can be taken away by visitors, large scale texts or panels with poems and lightboxes with pictures. The workshop space is equipped with showcases with educational materials for classes.

The exhibition is an integral part of an educational program devoted to the writings and biography of Czesław Miłosz, organized for groups of children, teenagers and adults visiting the International Centre for Dialogue in Krasnogruda.

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