The biggest cultural event of this year in Poland involving #EUFunds

Return of Princes Czartoryski Museum into the cultural map of Europe

During the opening ceremony of the Princes Czartoryski Museum in Kraków – the biggest cultural event of this year in Poland involving EU funds, EU Commissioner for Cohesion and Reforms Elisa Ferreira congratulated, via a letter, the National Museum in Kraków for carrying out a project of great importance for Poland and for Europe. The project is called “The past of the future — renovation and equipment of the Princes Czartoryski Museum — National Museum in Kraków for the purpose of sharing a unique collection” and it aims to bring back to visitors the Princes Czartoryski Museum. It consists of comprehensive renovation and reconstruction of the historic palace as well as conservation and digitisation of works from the Czartoryski collection including Leonardo da Vinci’s “Lady with an Ermine”.

“I am proud that this project received funding from the European Union cohesion policy budget, which has been a major source of investments for Poland, in the amount of PLN 36.5 million.” , wrote Commissioner Ferreira. “Since its accession to the European Union, Poland has become the biggest beneficiary of Cohesion policy, which is Europe’s utmost expression of solidarity between Member States, with more than EUR 2 billion going to cultural investments and the protection of national heritage. The preservation of the physical cultural patrimony is challenging but an absolute necessity if we want to be able to transmit to the next generations well-preserved testimonies of the past. In that spirit thousands of Polish projects and therefore the regions hosting them have benefited from EU cohesion policy funds.”

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