Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow MOCAK
Glass-and-concrete art museum grafted onto the brick ruins of a wartime enamel factory.
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This guide to MOCAK in Kraków traces the yard beneath your feet back to 1943, when this ground was part of Oskar Schindler's factory, and follows the site through decades of making telephone equipment before the city bought the ruin and asked Italian architect Claudio Nardi to build a museum directly on top of it. You'll hear about Nardi's decision to keep the old brick factory walls and graft raw concrete and glass onto them, and about founding director Maria Anna Potocka, who spent decades building the collection now filling these rooms. Look for where the new concrete meets the old factory brick near the entrance.
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