Manggha Museum of Japanese Art and Technology

This guide to the Manggha Museum in Kraków begins in 1944, when a teenage Andrzej Wajda—decades before his own films won an Oscar and a Palme d'Or—slipped into a Japanese art exhibition held under Nazi occupation. It traces the collection back to Feliks Jasieński, a critic who gave Kraków's National Museum thousands of Japanese objects that then sat unseen for decades, and forward to Wajda's decision, after winning Japan's Kyoto Prize, to build this museum with architect Arata Isozaki. Listen for what Wajda remembered from that wartime afternoon, and look up as you arrive.