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!