After a seven-hour train journey, we arrived in Katowice, where we were greeted by cold (7°C) and icy rain.
Luckily, the apartment we rented was quite close to the station.
Here's what we planned and what we managed to accomplish:
(Detailed description of events in the next entry; probably not until tomorrow morning!)
Today, before noon, the Silesian museums are on the agenda: Silesian Museum in Katowice:
The Silesian Museum in Katowice – a museum established on 23 January 1929 by a resolution of the Silesian Parliament, which operated until the outbreak of World War II in 1939, in the years 1945–1950 temporarily recreated in Bytom, restituted in Katowice in 1984, in 2006 entered into the State Register of Museums, since 2015 in its new, target location in a modern complex of buildings in Katowice at ul. Tadeusza Dobrowolskiego 1.
The most valuable collections of the Silesian Museum include: Polish painting from before and after 1945 (including works by Józef Chełmoński, Artur Grottger, Tadeusz Makowski, Jacek Malczewski, Jan Matejko, Józef Mehoffer and Stanisław Wyspiański), amateur art, artistic and documentary photography, Polish posters and rich ethnographic and Polish stage art collections. (…)
And the Coal Mining Museum in Zabrze, which includes the Historic Guido Mine:
