MUSEUM FOR THE EVENING #2 | Who will catch your eye?

MUSEUM FOR THE EVENING #2 | Who will catch your eye?

Think Valentine’s Day is already over? At the National Museum we have love stories every day. With us you'll check whether they all end happily. We invite couples, singles, friends, acquaintances. We will introduce you to the protagonists of our works and tell about their romantic dilemmas — maybe you will find your other half or a soulmate among them?

Join us! Museum for the Evening on the last Friday of every month.

PROGRAM:

• 🕒 17:00–20:00
  Creative zone / Main Hall
  We invite you to get creative in the craft zone, where we will make original pop-up cards. They can express love, friendship, gratitude… Patterns, instructions, lots of hearts and decorative materials are waiting for you.
• Museum psychotest in a 90s style / Main Hall
  At our stand take the psychotest and find out whether you are closer to the passionate and impulsive heart of Jacek Malczewski, the calm and cool Domicja Longina, or perhaps the prudent and romantic Stańczyk?
• Draw your Valentine / Main Hall
  Take part in a lottery and draw a character from a painting. Find them in the gallery and learn their love story with the help of MNW educators.
• Q&A – ask about art / 19th-Century Art Gallery and Old Art Gallery
  MNW educators will answer questions and recall love stories hidden in works of art. You will recognize them by badges that say ASK ME (19th-Century Art Gallery: rooms 104 and 105; Old Art Gallery: rooms 201, 202 and 210).
• Music zone / Main Hall
  Music selection by Basia Małecka – singer, artist and radio editor. A warm-up before Studio B-party.

📍 Place: MNW Main Building – Main Hall and permanent galleries

Participation based on MNW admission ticket; you can join at any time; no prior registration required.

🕒 18:00 — Author meeting
Intimate portraits of artists. Around Michalak and the Iwaszkiewicz family
Love, friendship, art and poetry — Anna Krawczyk and Sylwia Góra will talk about the letters documenting the closeness of Antoni Michalak and Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, and about Anna Iwaszkiewicz’s unfulfilled talents. The meeting will be hosted by Andrzej Chrzanowski (SEDNO Academic Publishing).

MNW Bookstore — free admission / no prior registration required.

🕒 19:30 — Animated film screening: NIGHTMARE GIFTS FOR VALENTINE’S DAY
Nightmare Gifts for Valentine’s Day is a bold journey through intimacy, corporeality and borderline experiences, told in the language of auteur animation. The program balances black humor, eroticism, horror and personal confession; the screening is for viewers ready for strong content and emotional intensity.

• “Drijf”, reż. Levi Stoops, 2023 (15’)
  Jeremy and Aurora are lost at sea; the fight for survival and their relationship turns into bloody chaos.
• “She and Her Good Vibrations”, reż. Olivia Griselda, Sarah Cheok (10’)
  A comedic animated film celebrating female autoeroticism and sex-positivity.
• “Gardening”, reż. Sarah Beby (15’)
  After a sexual assault a woman retreats into the garden of her mind and seeks a path to healing.
• “Altötting”, reż. Andreas Hykade (11’30’’)
  A personal story about growing up, faith and shattered illusions in a small Bavarian town.

Curator of the screening: Tessa Moult-Milewska
MNW Main Building – MUZ Cinema / approx. 60 min

💸 Tickets: 40 PLN and 25 PLN — entitle holders to enter MNW from 17:00, attend film screenings and the “Studio B-party”. Tickets available at the box office and online from February 17. Limited seats.

🕒 20:00–23:30 — Studio B-party
DJ set by Basia Małecka: soul, funk, disco and Brazilian music. Open to requests from lovers. The dancefloor is yours.

📍 Place: MNW Main Building – Main Hall

Organizer: National Museum in Warsaw (Ministry of Culture and National Heritage)

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