Pegasus on the theater

Poznan National Museum boasts Poland’s largest collection of works by painter Jacek Malczewski. The permanent exhibition of Gothic art is also worth seeing. The entrance to the museum is from Wolnosci Square. On the same square is the Raczynski Library, the first public library, founded in Poznan in the early 19th century by Edward Raczynski. Its fa˜ade is an architectural reference to the eastern facade of the Louvre. From the west, the square is completed by the former German theatre where the Osmego Dnia Theatre is located today. Next door is the Okraglak, Poland’s only round department store. Its windows offer an excellent view of the Wielki Theatre, the first permanent opera house in Poland, built in 1910. Today it stages excellent productions and has a prominent decorative element – the winged horse Pegasus.

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