HomeConference Banquet
Tuesday, June 30th, 20.00 - 23.00
Museum of the John Paul II Collection (Porczyński Gallery)
The Museum of the John Paul II Collection (Porczyński Gallery) will host the conference banquet on Tuesday evening.
The Museum of the John Paul II Collection in Warsaw arose out of the private gift of one family. In 1986, Janina and Zbigniew Carroll-Porczynski donated a rich collection of Western European art, amounting to almost 400 paintings and sculptures which had been assembled over many years, to the Church and the Nation. In the following years they enlarged the gift by over 50 paintings and sculptures.
The collection gathered by the Porczynskis was initially exhibited at the Museum of the Archdiocese of Warsaw, and then, in 1989, upon the basis of an agreement between the two founders, the Primate of Poland and the Minister of Arts and Culture, it was established as a separate museum. The authorities of the capital city, Warsaw, granted the use of the historical Bank of Poland building, which was built between 1825-1829 in accordance with the design of the prominent architect Antonio Corazzi, for the purpose of exhibiting the collection. From its very beginning until the present time, the Museum was and is maintained from funds donated to Fundacja Arteks [a Polish charitable foundation] by Janina and Zbigniew Carroll-Porczynski.
- Address: Museum of the John Paul II Collection, pl. Bankowy 1, 00-139 Warsaw, tel.: +48 22 620 27 25, +48 22 620 21 81.
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Directions:
- Leave the campus and go to the underground station “Politechnika”.
- Take a line directed towards “Młociny”.
- Get off at the “Ratusz Arsenał” station (3 stops).
- Walk through the square (Plac Bankowy) to the Porczyński Gallery.
