Entrance to the Ossolineum building from Szewska Street

A man standing in front of the main gate to the seat of the reactivated Ossoliński National Institute (Ossolineum) in Wrocław. The Ossolineum is an institution founded by Count Józef Maksymilian Ossoliński, a scholar, bibliophile and collector, in 1817 in Lviv, where it carried out its library, museum and publishing activities for almost 120 years. After the borders changed, the Institute was reactivated in Wrocław. The post-war beginnings, however, proved to be difficult....