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The Royal Łazienki are competing for the title of the best museum in Europe. The summer residence of Stanisław August has been nominated for the European Museum of the Year Award – EMYA 2017. This prestigious distinction has been awarded to cultural venues since 1977.

We invite visitors to the 57th season of Chopin Concerts, which will last in the Royal Łazienki until the end of September 2016. The event will feature 40 outstanding pianists including musicians from Japan, Russia and Ukraine.

From 23 to 25 September 2016, admission tickets to all the buildings in the Royal Łazienki will be available at a 50% discount. The Museum has joined the initiative "Poland – Visit More – Weekend at Half Price", launched by the Ministry of Sport and Tourism.

In the second part of the Chinese Lanterns Festival you are invited to the Chinese Garden for concerts of oriental music. Every Sunday until 28 August, outstanding artists will play traditional musical instruments. The Buyo Japanese dance and tales about the Far East culture are not to be missed either.

Our visitors are invited to the 2nd Festival of Baroque Operas Dramma per Musica, which will begin on 2 September in the Royal Łazienki. The programme will include operas, a vocal and dance performance as well as chamber concerts. Our guests will have a chance to see, among others, Handel’s Orlando, and the unjustly forgotten work by Leonardo Vinci – Semiramide riconosciuta.

The tea ceremony, remarkable shows of skills by a Sichuan chef and dancers in masks was the main attractions of the Chengdu Days – an event which was held in the Łazienki Park from 22 to 24 July 2016.

More than 120 posters by outstanding Dutch artists - Gielijn Escher and Lex Reitsma - will be displayed from 9 June until 9 August in the Open-Air Gallery of the Royal Łazienki by Aleje Ujazdowskie avenue.

We invite visitors to the ‘Sphere of Silence’ Festival – one of the most highly anticipated summer music events in the capital, which gathers tens of thousands of guests in the Royal Łazienki every year. Chamber concerts in picturesque nooks and corners of the gardens will take place on the weekends in July.

On July 19, a cultural event is happening on Twitter. #PalaceDay, initiated by the Palace of Versailles and by the members of the Association of European Royal Residences (ARRE), is open to all the royal palaces as well as to the general public.

More than 39 thousand people have seen the excellent painting "Flowers in a Glass Vase" by Abraham Mignon, displayed in the Palace on the Isle. The work of art comes from the Mauritshuis Museum in The Hague, which houses one of the best collections in the world of Dutch and Flemish painting of the Golden Age.

On 20 June, during his official visit to Poland, the President of the People’s Republic of China, Xi Jinping, held a meeting with the marshals (speakers) of the Sejm and Senate - Marek Kuchciński and Stanisław Karczewski - in the Palace on the Isle.

Tulips, narcissi, roses, hydrangeas, and perennial plants - in the coming months, hundreds of these plants will bloom in the Dutch Flower Garden near the Old Orangery. The first inflorescences, which were designed by the Dutchman Niek Roozen, will be available to admire from the end of April - since 29 April.

Valuable objects from Polish museums: medals, seals, coins, documents and prints will be displayed from 13 May as part of the "Treasures of the Warsaw Mint 1766-1868" exhibition in the Old Orangery. Many of the displayed objects are unique items, which have not been previously made available to the public.

The Norwegian Embassy and its guests marked the Norwegian Constitution Day - the most colourful and joyful event in the country of the fjords - with a reception in the Old Orangery. On 17 May, Norway celebrates the anniversary of the adoption by the state of the constitution in 1814.

The album about the history of the royal collection of paintings of Stanisław August was presented at a promotional event in the United Kingdom. The publication was showcased in The London Wallace Collection which houses the collections of the Seymour-Conway family.

A jazz concert by Grzech Piotrowski, a digital projection of Jan Bogumił Plersch’s paintings, and exhibitions in the Old Orangery and the Palace on the Isle drew crowds of visitors to the Royal Łazienki on the Night of Museums. We invite you to watch a photo report of this extraordinary event.

The baroque Dutch painter, Abraham Mignon, had strong ambitions to depict various flower compositions with maximal resemblance to reality. Today, he is considered one of the most prominent still life painters in the second half of the 17th century, and his paintings are displayed in major museums in the world.

Thousands of tulips in colours ranging from white to near-black will appear in spring in the Gardens of the Royal Łazienki. In this way the Museum will remind its visitors of the tulipomania - the European fascination with those flowers, which originated in the Netherlands.