The Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź is a Polish museum renowned for its extensive collection of modern and contemporary art pieces. Culture.pl takes a look at nine key artworks that will be on permanent display ...

You’ve heard of international superstitions like ‘don’t walk under a ladder’, but how about some exclusive to Poland? The 13 super-Polish beliefs presented here include why you shouldn’t count pierogi ...

Włochy is the Polish word for Italy. But do you know where it comes from? Certainly not from Italy... Looking at the Polish map of the world, one thing that might strike you as a bit confounding is ...

Two WWII films about Squadron 303 hit cinema screens within a fortnight of each other. As we examine key plot points, we reveal which was the more accurate – and perhaps which was better. Hurricane ...

In the late 19th century, Georg Brandes made several trips to Poland. Encounters there with Russification, censorship and political oppression made the influential Danish writer fall in love with the ...

The story of Polish royal regalia is a tale of lost treasure. The most valuable items of this kind were stolen toward the end of the 18th century and later destroyed, giving rise to myths about their ...

The indisputable master of cosmetics responsible for Rita Hayworth’s red curls and the look of Boris Karloff as Frankenstein. He invented liquid-foundation makeup, put lipstick into its present form ...

Do you ever wonder how many clothes the world produces every year? The answer is 80 billion. The production of one cotton T-shirt from your favourite shop requires 2700 (!) litres of water. Is there ...

The most famous Polish traveller, tireless explorer, versatile researcher and humanitarian. He travels to all continents except Antarctica. It was Strzelecki who gave the highest peak in Australia its ...

Every Pole knows Moniuszko composed ‘Halka’ and ‘The Haunted Manor’, that he was the father of Polish opera, and that his face decorated the 100,000 PLN banknotes for a while. But there are so many ...

It turns out famed Romantic poets like Byron, Keats and Coleridge were enamoured with a rather unexpected figure: Tadeusz Kościuszko, one of Poland’s most prominent freedom fighters. Seemingly ...

The true love of a Polish Romeo and Juliet, the story of a famous actress who sold her soul for a man’s salvation, and a movie about spying on and falling in love with the girl next door. Culture.pl ...