Amid the airplanes and exhibits at the Polish Aviation Museum in Kraków, the words of one of the most important plays of Polish Romanticism rang out. As part of the latest edition of the nationwide “National Reading” campaign, we turned to Adam Mickiewicz’s Dziady.
Following last year’s event featuring the epigrams and elegies of Jan Kochanowski, this year the Polish Aviation Museum in Kraków once again took part in the nationwide “National Reading” campaign. This time, the Museum resounded with passages from Adam Mickiewicz’s Dziady. We invited the 8th Kraków Transport Aviation Base to join us in this initiative; for years, we have been connected not only by shared aviation history but also by a mission to promote patriotic values.
From the play, we selected excerpts from Part III, Scene VII—“The Warsaw Salon”—one of the most poignant scenes in the play, in which Mickiewicz examines Polish society during the period of the Partitions. These words, written nearly two hundred years ago, resonated in a unique setting—amidst the airplanes and exhibits of our museum.
The text was read by:
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