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The Muzeum Kolekcji im. Jana Pawla II (John Paul II Museum; Tues-Sun 10am-5pm, last entry 4pm; 7zl) comprises a large art collection - some 400 paintings in all - assembled by the wealthy emigre Carroll-Porczynski family in the early 1980s and donated to the Polish Catholic church a few years later, with works ranging from the fourteenth to the twentieth century, and a heavy emphasis on religious subjects. The museum has proved controversial: sections of the academic art world are doubtful about the value of the collection, and the Porczynskis went to great - and ultimately unsuccessful - lengths to try to block the publication of an article by a leading Polish art expert claiming that several of the more famous paintings, in particular the early Italian works, are actually fakes. Alongside the museum's unquestionably high artistic aspiration, there's an unabashedly catachestic tone to the place, the portraits of the pope and current Catholic Primate Cardinal Glemp placed at the entrance reminding you of whom the collection is supposed to be in honour. Most of the collections, too, are arranged according to themes drawn from the Catholic theological canon - the Bible and Saints, the Life of Mary, Myth and Allegory, Motherhood and the like - the rest being set up on the basis of national "schools" of art and artistic themes, like "Still Lifes and Landscapes". The museum entrance is round the side of the building, next to the pope's statue.
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