The Great Emigration of the 19th century was not simply a mass departure, but a story of resilience, disillusionment, and ...

What if the most enduring witnesses to atrocity aren’t people, but the living spores quietly outlasting time? Artist Anna ...

The exhibition 'The Monument. Central and Eastern Europe 1918-2018' at Warsaw's Xawery Dunikowski Museum transforms monuments ...

The Polish alphabet has 32 letters, nine of which are unique. Considering that some of the letters form digraphs and even one trigraph, this adds up to a total of 17 signs, which you‘ll unfortunately ...

On the gloomy morning of 11th January 2016, media around the globe reported the death of David Bowie, one of the most original music stars in history. At Culture.pl, we would like to pay tribute to ...

Modern Poland had no slavery, it had serfdom – a system that according to many contemporary researchers approached some of the most drastic realizations of slavery and played a key role in ...

Hollywood has a prolific history of spicing up every story they use as the basis for a film script. The Zookeeper’s Wife is hardly an exception, so if you are dying to know which parts of this ...

Though Warsaw has rebuilt from ruins, its streets still bear the scars of the 1944 Uprising – bullet holes, shattered ...

Old Polish cuisine is well-known for its abundance of fish dishes, and foreign visitors have long observed that the art of preparing the little fellows was at a very high level of sophistication in ...

Roman Polanski’s Rosemary’s Baby, on top of making it into virtually every all-time top 10 thrillers list and propelling Mia Farrow, Roman Polanski and Robert Evans to stardom, is also reputed to be ...

Polish ‘wycinanki’ are the beautiful paper cut-outs that can be found in shops and museums all over the world. Our step-by-step guide to their construction will help you make these colourful creations ...

The Polish national wardrobe is filled to the brim with embroidered dresses in all possible colours as well as Gorals, hard-soled leather moccasins called ‘kierpce’ and ornaments from red beaded ...