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THE GLASS AND CERAMICS CENTRE IN
KRAKÓW
ART, SCIENCE AND EDUCATION IN A
HISTORICAL GLASSWORKS
mgr Aleksandra SkorekThe Glass and Ceramics Centre
The Glass and Ceramics Centre
- the only place of its kind in Poland, combining educational and cultural activities connected with
glass and ceramics
Division of Glass and Building Materials in Kraków
Lipowa Street – located on the right bank of Vistula
river, part of Zabłocie area and Podgórze district
ZABŁOCIE – industrial part of the city through
the ages:
• limestone quarries and brickstones producing
building materials from local clays in Middle
Ages
• important point on the salt trade route running
from Wieliczka to Kraków
• many factories in inter-war period, developing
distilling, mechanics, rubber, cosmetics, food,
metal and GLASS industries
June 1931 – the opening of the “L. Bąkowski, D. Chazan and Co.
Kraków Glassworks”.
Its main offices were at first in Białystok, after in Warsaw, but it took over the buildings of the old
match factory at 3, Lipowa Street in
Kraków's Zabłocie area.
1932 – start of the glass production
In 1940 the glassworks was confiscated by the Germans and after the II World War nationalised. It remained place of
glass production….
...and became also a glass industry's scientific research centre.
The Glass and Ceramics Centre(opened June 2014)
education
monument’s
conservation
culture, history,
technology (tourists’ centre)
EDUCATION
The Glass and Ceramics Centre is a
training centre for students from such
institutions as the University of Science and
Technology and Academy of Fine Arts (the
Faculties of Industrial Design, Sculpture,
Conservation and Restoration of Art Works),
including regular and lab-based classes on the
production of glass, ceramics and building
materials.
MONUMENT’S CONSERVATION
from 2006 – Division of Glass and Building
Materials in Krakow, carry out works which
succeed in inventing the technology of Roman
cement production in rotary kiln
Roman cement is a natural hydraulic binder,
which in 19th and in the beginning of 20th
century was one of the most significant
materials used for creating architectural
decorations on buildings’ elevations
• plasters,• cornices, • friezes, • rustication,• volutes, • portals,• sculptures and reliefs (busts, medallions, cartouches, mascarons, floral decorations).
Roman cement was used for elevations’ decoration in a form of :
TOURIST’S CENTRE
LIPOWA 3 GALLERY - organises exhibitions of works by contemporary Polish artists that supplement its permanent offer of unique handmade glassware and ceramics products
Lipowa 3 gallery after the opening (2012)
New exhibition space (2014)
PERMANENT EXHIBITION „GLASS IN KRAKÓW. INDUSTRY AND ART. 1931-1998” – presents the history of glassworks on Lipowa street and collections of:
• period glass tools• antique glassware from the
19th and beginning of the 20th century
• „Kraków glassware” produced at Lipowa in the period 1969-1998
GLASS FORMING SHOWS
THE GLASS AND CERAMICS CENTRE AS A PART OF SELF-CHANGING ZABŁOCIE
Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow (MOCAK)
Oskar Schindler’s Factory
Thank You for Your attention!