Sunday, 28 April 2024


The Art Exposition:

In the museum one can find an exhibition of sacral art and a small gallery with a collection of the paintings by local artists.
The baroque wooden sculptures are among the most interesting exhibits: the unknown Saint either from the end of the 17th century or from the beginning of the 18th century, the 17th century figure of the saintly Ludwika from Kęty, the Holiest Virgin Mary bas-relief dating from the 18th century and finally, St. Florian bas-relief coming from the beginning of the 19th century. The collection of the sculptures is completed by: the 19th century plaster statue of St. Antoni Padewski, small sculptures of: Saint Family, Jesus Christ and Holiest Virgin Mary, and two 19th century crucifixes. The products of local chisel are worthy of attention. For example, belting decorations adorned with a floral ornament (probably coming from the altar), a richly carved frame probably from the St. Margaret and Catherine Church and finally, the ferectony in the shape of a chapel in a neo-gothic style with a Crucifixion Group in the centre the sculptures of which are made from biscuit. In the next cabinet the stoups and other church ware from the 18th and 19th centuries are exposed. One can also find there the 19th century service books and the handmade breviary from 1740.
On the opposite wall a collection of the secular paintings is exhibited. It is worth seeing two oil portraits of Kęty middle-class people dating from the 19th century. Beside the collection the small photographs of the Kęty artists are presented such as: a mining village by Stefan Etgens from 1935, a wooden house on Klasztorna Street" by Jan Grabowski (a member of the Bielsko group "Beskid") from the seventies of the 20th century, a view overlooking the factory by E. Zajączek from 1933 signed by 'R' letter and the landscape of the birch trees by Eugeniusz Rogalski from 1965.

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