Guided tour available to blind and visually and aurally impaired persons
Warsaw Week for Culture Without Barriers
Guided tour around the exhibition “Maria Bartuszová. Provisional Forms”. The event is available to blind and visually and aurally impaired persons: induction loop, sign language, application.
Maria Bartuszová (1936-1996) was a little-known Slovak sculptress, discovered by broader audience in 2007 during Documenta 12 in Kassel – the most important international art exhibition, taking place every five years in Kassel, Germany. Since then her works have begun to appear on international exhibitions, some of them have found their way to prestigious contemporary art collections, but Bartuszova’s art has never gained proper reception: her works were presented individually, without a broader context and isolated from an astonishing dynamics of her artistic legacy.
The exhibition “Maria Bartuszová. Provisional Forms” seeks to write the history that has neither ever been written, nor presented in a coherent way, while Bartuszová’s works are established on a dense grid of extremely expressive and dynamic references, recurrences and unexpected leaps that constitute a record of the artist’s hesitation and struggle to find a new artistic language.
Access
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART (Emilii Plater 51)
The nearest bus stops: RONDO ONZ (about 300 metres), DWORZEC CENTRALNY (about 800 metres), PKP WARSZAWA ŚRÓDMIEŚCIE railway station (about 700 metres).
Transfer to RONDO ONZ bus and tram stop by lines No: 10, 17, 33 37, 41, 109 (only heading towards Central Railway Station), 160 (only heading towards Central Railway Station), 174, 227. Note: access to RONDO ONZ stops is available via pedestrian crossings.
Transfer to DWORZEC CENTRALNY bus and tram stop by lines No: 7, 8, 9, 10, 17, 22, 24, 25, 33, 37, 41, 109, 117, 127, 128, 131, 158, 160, 174, 175, 227, 501, 504, 507, 517, 518, 519, 521, 522, 525, 700 and certain Mazovian Railways and Rapid Urban Rail trans (line S3). The line 41 operates solely on workdays.
Note: access to tram stops via stairs and underpasses. Access to terminals at Central Railway Station is available via pedestrian crossings. Access to bus stops of lines passing through Central Railway Station is available via stairs and underpasses.
Access to PKP WARSZAWA ŚRÓDMIEŚCIE railway station by means of Koleje Mazowieckie (Mazovian Railways) and Szybka Kolej Miejska (Rapid Urban Rail) (lines S1 and S2). Note: access to platform 2 of PKP WARSZAWA ŚRÓDMIEŚCIE station is available via lifts and stairs inside the railway station.
Bus lines are operated exclusively by low-floor vehicles. Tram lines are operated by low-floor and high-floor vehicles.
Accessibility
GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE BUILDING
Access to the building: no obstacles. Car transport: a public car park (paid parking zone), including lots for persons with disabilities.
Moving around the building
Entrance
Entrance to the café and toilets from Śliska Street, available from the ground level.
Exhibition. Entrance from Emilii Plater Street (former Emilia shopping mall) – 6 stairs or metal rails (21% slope, 55 cm height).
Ticket offices: not applicable.
Accessibility of halls/rooms where events associated with the Warsaw Week of Culture Without Barriers are taking place.
Exhibition located on two levels without a lift. Transfer between levels only via stairs.
Toilets adapted to the needs of persons with disabilities.
Available from Śliska Street – another entrance.
The toilet is small (manoeuvring space of about 130x130 cm).
