Bruno Schulz Museum

One of Drohobych’s museums is devoted to a man who considered this city the center of the world. He was a Polish writer, artist and simply a talented creative person — Bruno Schulz. He spent his whole life in Drohobych. He was an extraordinary personality who could not boast a large number of works. However, his creativity was so vivid that each of his creations became a true treasure of literature and painting.

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The Schulz Museum was opened in 2003 on the initiative of the first head of the Polonistic Scientific and Information Center, Ihor Menko. The museum displays the first editions of the writer’s works. One of them is Cinnamon Shops, published in Warsaw in 1934. Among the exhibits are a large photo collection, ex libris and the library of the  

Interesting facts:

More than 300 graphic works by the artist are kept not in his homeland, but in the A. Mickiewicz Museum of Literature in Warsaw.

Before his death, Schulz painted wall frescoes on the Landau Villa. Fragments of them were illegally taken to the Yad Vashem memorial institute in Israel.

Interest in the writer’s work appeared only 60 years after his death.