1. THE GLASS AND CERAMICS CENTRE IN KRAKÓW ART, SCIENCE AND EDUCATION IN A HISTORICAL GLASSWORKS mgr Aleksandra Skorek The Glass and Ceramics Centre

2. - the only place of its kind in Poland, combining educational and cultural activities connected with glass and ceramics

3. Division of Glass and Building Materials in Kraków

4. Lipowa Street – located on the right bank of Vistula river, part of Zabłocie area and Podgórze district

5. 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

6. 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

8. In 1940 the glassworks was confiscated by the Germans and after the II World War nationalised. It remained place of glass production….

9. ...and became also a glass industry's scientific research centre.

10. The Glass and Ceramics Centre (opened June 2014) education monument’s conservation culture, history, technology (tourists’ centre)

11. 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.

12. 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 19 th and in the beginning of 20 th century was one of the most significant materials used for creating architectural decorations on buildings’ elevations

13. 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 :

16. TOURIST’S CENTRE

17. LIPOWA 3 GALLERY - organises exhibitions of works by contemporary Polish artists that supplement its permanent offer of unique handmade glassware and ceramics products

18. Lipowa 3 gallery after the opening (2012)

19. New exhibition space (2014)

21. 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

23. GLASS FORMING SHOWS

25. THE GLASS AND CERAMICS CENTRE AS A PART OF SELF-CHANGING ZABŁOCIE

28. Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow (MOCAK) Oskar Schindler’s Factory

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