John Paul II Collection

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  • Address
    Plac Bankowy 1, Old Town
  • Phone
    022 620 2725

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Lonely Planet review

On Plac Bankowy (Bank Square), the former stock exchange and Bank of Poland building - a grand neoclassical building designed by Antonio Corazzi in the 1820s - houses the John Paul II Collection, an art collection donated to the Catholic Church by the Carrol-Porczyński family. It's quite a surprise to find the likes of Dali, Van Gogh, Constable, Rubens, Goya and Renoir gracing the walls of a fairly non-descript museum, and to normally have them all to yourself. Polish artists are also represented, including Warsaw-born Wojciech Gerson (1831-1901), whose massive Baptism of Lithuania (1889), which beautifully captures Lithuania's conversion to Christianity, is highly expressive despite lacking colour.