Galeria Plakatu w Krakowie | Cracow Poster Gallery

Ogólne informacje

The gallery's main attraction is about 2,500 poster titles by almost 200 Polish graphic artists, painters and designers, promoting events primarily in the field of culture, theatre, film, music, and literature. However, it is also a home to excellent social, sport and advertising posters. Polish posters have played an important role in modern graphic history since the Second World War, and at the turn of the 1950s and '60s they were considered the finest in the world. The Gallery was created on the foundations of the private Dydo Poster Collection, which initially comprised almost 20,000 titles (today there are nearly twice as many). It was established during the mid 1950s, the growth period of the so-called Polish Poster School. Apart from organizing exhibitions, printing catalogues, posters and postcards and reproducing posters, the Gallery also collaborates with poster and film festivals and other organizations throughout Poland mounting thematic poster competitions.