Program

We have first visited the Royal Castle on Wawel Hill, entering forty-five minutes earlier than regular visitors. The museum curators have taken us on a guided tour around the tapestries collection. We have also paid an exclusive visit to the Dutch Cabinet that is normally closed for visitors of the Castle. After the main tour, the group was divided into three smaller groups for visits to various collections and institutions around the city, focusing on highlights of Dutch and Flemish art that are usually not accessible to the public.

Tuesday, 23 May, 2017

Evening	Participants of the optional program in Cracow on Wednesday 24 May travel to Cracow on Tuesday evening by high-speed train at their own leisure and check in at their hotel (both to be booked individually).
	Individual dinner

Wednesday, 24 May, 2017

	Visit to the Royal Castle on Wawel Hill: State Art Collections (Zamek Królewski na Wawelu: Panstwowe Zbiory Sztuki)
08:30	Participants gather in the courtyard of the Royal Castle and are welcomed by Jan Ostrowski, Director
08:40-08:50	Participants enter Royal Castle in two groups
08:40-10:15	Guided tours of the tapestries collection and the Dutch and Flemish paintings, including the Dutch Cabinet, at the Royal Castle with Joanna Winiewicz-Wolska (in German), Magdalena Ozga and Jerzy Holc
10:15-11:30	Transfers to excursion locations, including coffee and tea break
11:30-17:00	Excursions program in three separate groups (see below)
17:00-18:30	Farewell drinks
18:30	Individual dinner

Excursions group 1

10:15-11:30	Transfer by bus to the Jagiellonian Library of the Jagiellonian University and a break for coffee and tea
11:30-13:00	Visit to the Jagiellonian Library of the Jagiellonian University, with a focus on the Codex Picturatus, the sixteenth-century botanical drawings and drawings by Albert Eckhout, with Izabela Korczyńska and Anna Sobańska.
13:00-15:00	Walk to the city center and lunch at your own leisure
15:00-16:30	Visit to the collection of manuscripts and paintings of the Princes Czartoryski Library and the Princes Czartoryski Collection at the Arsenal – Ancient Art Gallery, with Katarzyna Płonka-Bałus and Dorota Dec

Excursions group 2

10:15-11:30	Walk to St. Mary’s Basilica on the Main Market Square and a break for coffee and tea
11:30-13:00	Visit to St. Mary’s Basilica, with a focus on the conservation of the Veit Stoss altarpiece and a visit to the conservation studio of the Basilica, with Jarosław Adamowicz, Katarzyna Pakula, and Aleksandra Hola
13:00-15:15	Lunch at your own leisure in the city center and walk to the Jagiellonian Library
15:15-16:45	Visit to the Jagiellonian Library of the Jagiellonian University, with a focus on the Codex Picturatus and the sixteenth-century botanical drawings and drawings by Albert Eckhout, with Izabela Korczyńska and Anna Sobańska.

Excursions group 3

10:15-11:30	Walk to the Princes Czartoryski Library and a break for coffee and tea
11:30-13:00	Visit to the collection of manuscripts and paintings of the Princes Czartoryski Library and the Princes Czartoryski Collection at the Arsenal – Ancient Art Gallery, with Katarzyna Płonka-Bałus and Dorota Dec
13:00-15:00	Lunch at your own leisure in the city center
15:00-16:30	Visit to St. Mary’s Basilica, with a focus on the conservation of the Veit Stoss altarpiece and a visit to the conservation studio of the Basilica, with Jarosław Adamowicz, Katarzyna Pakula, and Aleksandra Hola

Locations

Use the map below to find all excursion locations.