Pałac Mańkowskich
In Pałac Mańkowskich (Mańkowski Palace), Neoclassicism was translated into stone and stucco for Leon Mańkowski, a Sanskrit lecturer and Indologist. The palace was built between 1901 and 1903, designed by Józef Sowiński and Władysław Kaczmarski, with Emanuel Świeykowski collaborating during construction. Its original interior decorations—stuccowork and polychromes inspired by classicism—were later deliberately dismantled for exhibition use, along with the marble fireplaces; a grand portico was also added to the northern elevation, and dormer windows were inserted into the roof. After World War II, the building first became the seat of the Kraków voivodes, and from 1950 to 1990 it housed the Lenin Museum. That museum ended on February 28, 1990, by decision of the Kraków city president, and the palace returned to its owner a year later. It had already been entered into the Registry of Cultural Property on January 2, 1968. …
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