The National Museum in Gdansk together with the Baltic Sea Cultural Centre and the Museum of World War II have been realising a project Theatrum vitae. Marian Kołodziej. Theatre of life devoted to Marian Kołodziej (1921-2009).
 

Kołodziej, a great theatre and film scenographer, designer of pope’s altars in Gdansk and Sopot as well as many magnificent exhibitions was also an author of Memory Cliches. Labyrinths of Marian Kołodziej, a striking installation devoted to his personal experiences during the World War II (Marian Kołodziej was imprisoned in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, signed with nr 432).

The project consists of three parts:
 

1. Exhibition

Varnishing day: 4 December 2011, 11.00am, St. John's International Cultural Centre, 50 Swiętojańska str., Gdansk, will be open until 2 January 2012, Monday - Saturday: 10.00 am - 6.00 pm, Sunday: 1.00pm - 6.00p

2. Conference
5-6 December, Old Town Hall, Korzenna 33/35
PROGRAMME
5 December 2011:
9.00am - 2.00pm
- School and place of origin
- Theatre
- Movie
4.00pm - 6.00pm
-Memory Cliches
6.30pm
-Showing documentary Labyrint, meeting with one of the authors, Ron Schmidt
-meeting with representatives of the Polish Peacemakers -  Małgorzata Braunek, Andrzej B. Krajewski
6 December 2011
10.00am - 2.00pm
-exhibitions
-altars
2.30pm
-exhibition tour with the curator
6.00pm
- meeting of friends on the occassion of 90th birthday
 

3. Publisher (2012)

Patronage:
Bogdan Zdrojewski - Minister of Culture and National Heritage
Mieczysław Struk -  Marshal of the Pomeranian Voivodeship
Paweł Adamowicz - President of Gdansk