Sukiennice Museum
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Sukiennice Museum a.k.a. The Gallery of the 19th Century Polish Art in Sukiennice, is a division of the National Museum in Kraków, Poland. (Polish: Muzeum Narodowe). The Gallery is located on the upper floor of the Sukiennice Cloth Hall in the centre of the Main Market Square in Old Town Kraków.
The Gallery holds the biggest permanent exhibit of 19th century Polish painting and sculpture, in four grand rooms.
Currently, due to major renovations, the Gallery is closed to visitors until 2009. The bulk of the gallery's collection was moved to the Niepołomice castle for display beginning October 2006.
Initially, the Sukiennice Museum shared the upper floor of the Cloth Hall with the Fine Arts Society. The first major acquisition of the National Museum in Kraków was "Nero’s Torches" ("Pochodnie Nerona"), a painting (above) presented to the city by painter Henryk Siemiradzki. The majority of today’s collection in Sukiennice consists of gifts from collectors, artists and their families.
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