The house of the professors of the Jagiellonian University was known as ‘coffin’ or ‘black house’. National Museum in Krakow. And residential buildings in Venice Street.
We’ll travel along the Avenue of the Three Poets – three streets named after Poland’s most famous poets – Słowacki, Mickiewicz and Krasiński. It is full of inter-war modernist buildings. We will take the authentic elevator of the ‘professors’ House, which, like the staircase itself, has a polygonal shape. Marta Wyka, a professor at the Jagiellonian University and a writer, will invite us to visit her in her father, university professor’s flat. She has visited Lithuania several times while researching the works of Czesław Miłosz. You will hear excerpts from a book written by the professor, in which he describes the history of his house. You will learn that at the beginning of the 20th century, a river flowed down Venice Street.