On 4th of June 1968, the Poster Museum in Wilanów was opened at Stanisława Kostki Potockiego street 10/16 in and is a branch of the National Museum in Warsaw.
Fragment of the exhibition at the Poster Museum, photo: Wikipedia
The facility is located in the Wilanów palace and garden complex, on the site of the former palace riding school. It is the work of architect Franciszek Maria Lanci (1848), a memento of which is the front elevation of the museum building. It was later expanded to include the New Gallery.
The museum, a branch of the National Museum in Warsaw, was opened on 4th of June 1968. It was the first poster museum in the world.
Poster Museum in Wilanów Branch of the National Museum, photo: Wikipedia
The exhibition fragment at the Poster Museum has around 62,000 works in its collection. They include collections of Polish posters and foreign posters from all over the world from the end of the 19th century to the present times, including the collection of the Polish Poster School. The museum`s collection includes, among others, works of Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol and Stasys Eidrigevičius,
The museum organizes temporary exhibitions of outstanding poster artists from all over
the world, and also cooperates with art museums and galleries around the world. The museum was the organizer of the International Poster Biennale. The exhibition, organized every two years, featured posters by many famous artists such as Jan Młodożeniec, Henryk Tomaszewski, Roman Cieślewicz, Waldemar Świerzy, Franciszek Starowieyski, Wiesław Rosocha, Jan Sawka, Jan Lenica and Hiroshi Tanaka. In 2018, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Museum, the exhibition “+ - 1968” was organized, presenting works by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Indiana, and Frank Stella.
source: Wikipedia
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