Muzeum Sztuki i Techniki Japońskiej Manggha
Manggha is a museum built around a specific act of cultural donation: in 1920, the critic, writer and collector Feliks Jasieński—whose pen name was “Manggha”—gave his Japanese-linked collection to the National Museum of Kraków. With about 6,500 items, the works largely remained out of display, until a rare exception during 1944, when a Japanese-art exhibition was organized in Kraków’s Cloth Hall while the Germans occupied Poland—an encounter that Andrzej Wajda would later describe as formative. Nearly half a century later, Wajda received a film award in Kyoto in 1987 and chose to donate the prize money to fund a new building for the collection. The design came from Arata Isozaki, the Pritzker Prize–winning architect. Manggha opened on November 30, 1994, and in 2002 it welcomed Japan’s Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko—with an exhibition prepared at the emperor’s request, featuring selected woodcuts by Utagawa Hiroshige.
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