Secret communist-era rooms at Warsaw’s Royal Castle, a chocolate plum museum, and Adolph Menzel
From secret communist-era apartments hidden inside Warsaw’s Royal Castle to a chocolate plum museum built by an Australian chef who fell in love with Poland, this week Pulse of Culture uncovers some of the most surprising gems in the country’s cultural calendar this fall.
At the Royal Castle in Warsaw, a new exhibition called Secret Rooms takes visitors behind closed doors and into the apartments once reserved for the communist government’s most important foreign guests – a hidden chapter of one of Poland’s most visited landmarks. The exhibition runs until January 17 and is one of the most intriguing wintertime visits in Warsaw right now.
In the small southern town of Szydłów, former Australian cruise ship executive chef Gavin Baxter came to Poland, fell in love, and never left. Together with his Polish wife Agnieszka Wierzbicka-Baxter, whose family has grown plums for generations, he built Muzeum Śliwki, a chocolate plum museum showcasing a 700-year-old local tradition and a century-old production line that still coats smoked Szydłów prunes in chocolate today.
At the National Museum in Warsaw, a major new exhibition shines a long-overdue spotlight on Adolph Menzel, the 19th-century German artist of extraordinary range. The museum owns more than 200 of his works that most visitors in Poland have never encountered. The exhibition runs until December 13. And in Gdańsk, the Amberif festival brought together jewelry makers, artists and amber collectors from around the world, and saw a new Polish record for amber polishing.
Pulse of Culture is a weekly English-language magazine for anyone connected to Poland, including tourists, the diaspora, and the simply curious. New episodes are released every Sunday.
Host: Sally Jastrzębska
00:00 Secret communist-era rooms at Warsaw’s Royal Castle, chocolate plums, and Adolph Menzel
00:45 Secret Rooms: The communist-era apartments hidden inside Warsaw’s Royal Castle
03:42 Gavin Baxter and Muzeum Śliwki: An Australian’s chocolate plum love story in Poland
07:21 Adolph Menzel at the National Museum in Warsaw: 200 works rediscovered
11:21 Gdańsk Amberif: jewelry makers, collectors, and a new Polish amber polishing record
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