Opening hours: Closed Mondays; open all other days, 10am-1pm, 2pm-5pm.
The opening of The Nikifor Museum in Krynica was hailed the principal museum event of 1995. The Museum preserves paintings by Nikifor, the self-taught painter born around 1895, whose works were first discovered in the 1930s and, called naive art, earned fame in Poland and abroad. A life-long resident of Krynica, Nikifor was given the name of Krynicki in 1962. His output includes more than 2,000 watercolours on paper, cardboard, boxes, etc. Nikifor's prevalent themes were urban landscapes, buildings, churches and, though less frequent, religious scenes and portraits. He signed his paintings with meaningless series of letters.
The Museum has seventy seven works by Nikifor. Most of them come from the inter-war period, considered the best in his artistic achievement. On view is also his modest atelier, the famous chest in which he kept all his possessions, the stamps he made and his photographs (nb. the only ones he had) taken by Nikifor's legal custodian, the artist Marian Wosinski, in the last ten years of the artist's life. The exhibition contains also books and articles on Nikifor by Polish and foreign writers as well as posters, exhibition catalogues and invitations.
Muzeum Nikifora w Krynicy
Oddział Muzeum Okręgowego w Nowym Sączu
Bulwary Dietla 19
33-380 Krynica
Region: małopolskie
Phone: (+48 18) 471 53 03
WWW: www.muzeum.sacz.p