“Polska 1926”
On October 18th 2017 the website polska1926.pl was launched. Co-financed by The Lanckoronski Foundation “Polska 1926” is a presentation of one of the greatest personalized lists of the population of the Second Polish Republic. Five and half million Polish citizens signed names under a Declaration of Admiration and Friendship for the United States of America as a unique token of gratitude for that country’s exceptionally generous aid and assistance with regard to the re-establishment of Poland’s independence.
Links:
http://polska1926.pl/
http://dzieje.pl/aktualnosci/karta-922017-dzieki-ameryce
http://dsh.waw.pl/2678-from-poland-with-love,wys
Exhibition on the Life and Work of Cardinal Adam Stefan Sapieha at the National Museum in Przemyśl, and the Conference held after at the Castle of Krasiczyn.
The Lanckoronski Foundation as a benefactor of the Ossolineum
In the year of the 200th anniversary of the founding of the Ossolineum the Lanckoronski Foundation once again has assumed the role of the Institute’s benefactor, by granting the funds required to publish the papers delivered at the conference “Early Printed Books and their Owners”. In 2002 Piotr Piniński, president of the Foundation, gave the Ossolineum a collection of valuable illuminated manuscripts dating from the XV – XIX century, inherited from his ancestor Professor Count Leon Piniński, and in 2016 the Foundation donated a set of miniatures left in 1940 as a wartime deposit in the Ossolineum’s Museum of the Princes Lubomirski by two of Count Karol Lanckoroński’s children, Karolina and Antoni.
In 2017 the publishing arm of the Ossolineum will issue a volume comprising studies entitled “Early Printed Books and their Owners”, being edited by Agnieszka Franczyk-Cegły and Dorota Sidorowicz-Mulak. This book will also contain papers given by participants at the conference organized by the Ossolineum in association with the Consortium of European Research Libraries. The articles relate to research work on the provenances of early printed books and incunabula. The publication will be financed by the Lanckoronski Foundation which is dedicated to the promotion and support of academic research work and publications in the field of the humanities.
The opening of the Permanent Exhibition of the Lanckoroński Miniatures.
On July 8th 2016 in Wrocław the Lanckoronski Foundation gave the Ossolineum forty three miniatures from the former collection of the Counts Lanckoroński. Those paintings comprise objects from the 17th to the 19th century and provide a fine example of a family collection showing not only portraits of ancestors but also famous historical figures, painted by excellent artists. On September 23rd 2016 these gifts went on public display in a permanent exhibition housed in the Ossolineum’s Pan Tadeusz Museum.
(see: Exhibition and Educational Programme)
Gift of the Lanckoroński Miniatures to the Ossolineum
In the Ossolineum in Wrocław on July 8th 2016 Piotr Piniński and Katarzyna Raczyńska signed a notarial deed whereby the Lanckoronski Foundation gave that institution 43 miniatures inherited as heirs to the Counts Lanckoroński.
A Summary of the Project “Karol Lanckoroński and his Manuscript Legacy in the Collections of the Austrian National Library”, as well as a Presentation of the Series of Publications Entitled “Lanckoroniana”.
The symposium took place on 18 April 2016 at the Viennese subsidiary of the Polish Academy of Science.

(from left to right) Piotr Piniński the President of the Lanckoroński Foundation, Ms Beata Walczakiewicz of the Polish Academy of Science, Profesor Elżbieta Frąckowiak the Vice-Director of the Polish Academy of Science, Artur Lorkowski the Polish Ambassador to Austria, Dr Andreas Fingernagel the Director of the Dept. of Manuscripts and Prints at the Austrian National Library, Dr Werner Grebner the Deputy Mayor of Vienna’s III district.