A walk as part of the “Mature for Art” series: “Wesoła – from hospital to a new cultural district”

This time, we invite you to a story best experienced on the move! During a walk through Wesoła, the historic hospital district on Kopernika Street, we will talk about the past and future of one of the most dynamically changing places on Kraków’s cultural map.  

12 June 2026, 11.00

A walk through Wesoła will be an opportunity to get to know one of Kraków’s most interesting urban complexes – the former university hospital complex, which for over a century served as a laboratory for modern medicine and architecture.

As we walk through the historic hospital district on Kopernika Street, we will examine buildings constructed from the late 19th century onwards and architecture designed with new standards of treatment, hygiene and spatial organisation in mind.

The walk will also allow us to view this place from a contemporary perspective. It will not only introduce the architecture of the historic clinics and the Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, designed by Franciszek Mączyński, but will also provide an opportunity to discuss new initiatives being developed in Wesoła. The event will show how the history of architecture and science intertwines here with visions of the city’s future.

The Mature Art sessions, led by art historian and long-standing ICC collaborator, Dr Małgorzata Jędrzejczyk, are aimed at an adult audience, with a particular focus on mature participants. The lectures analyse issues related to art history and culture in relation to themes that have also been presented in exhibitions at the ICC. This is an excellent opportunity for discussion and a deeper understanding of the works and their context. 

Practical information:

• free admission,
• duration: approx. 90 minutes,
• bookings are required via the Evenea website (bookings open from 5 June)
• meeting point: Park Kolejowy, at the entrance from Kopernika Street (on the corner of Kopernika and Blich Streets: map showing the meeting point)
• for further information, please call +48 12 42 42 860 or email: a.klejzerowicz@mck.krakow.pl 

Dr. Małgorzata Jędrzejczyk – art historian, curator. Studied art history at Jagiellonian University, Universität Wien and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Graduate of the interdisciplinary study program Environment-Technology-Society (UJ). Author of scholarly articles on 20th century art and architecture and publications in exhibition catalogs and journals. Co-editor of an anthology of image/body texts and the publication “Komponowanie przestrzeni. Rzeźby awangardy”. Co-author and curator of the artistic and scientific program “Exercising Modernity” (Pilecki-Institut Berlin). As part of her doctoral thesis being prepared at the Institute of Art History at the Jagiellonian University, she is conducting research on the concept of space in the work of Katarzyna Kobro.

The offer is under the auspices of the monthly magazine “Voice of the Senior”.

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