Good Night at the Museum. A Fairytale Encounter

Once upon a time, there was a unicorn that looked a bit like a goat. There was also a magical ancient herb, a pot full of wonderful gold coins, and a few colours that had the power to transport you to other realms. They all lived in a museum and, to be honest, they still live there. If you visit us on a Friday evening this spring, you’ll be able to hear stories about their lives…

Join us for evening storytelling sessions at the MNK’s exhibitions and gardens – stories inspired by art, museum objects and artists will be told for you by an actress, an actor, and sometimes even puppets. There may also be mysterious props and music. As the museum empties and dusk slowly falls, on a cushion or a deckchair, in quite an unusual setting – let the magic of storytelling take hold!

We particularly recommend this to children who love fantastical and legendary worlds and cannot fall asleep without a bedtime story. And to those carers who still believe in dragons and unicorns.

Hosted by:

Karolina Lichocińska – born in 1991 in Elbląg. In 2019, she passed the external examination before the ZASP committee (drama actor). A graduate of the Aleksander Zelwerowicz Theatre Academy in Warsaw (Faculty of Theatre Studies). She took her first steps on stage at the Aleksander Sewruk Theatre in Elbląg. She is one of the founders of Warsaw’s Pijana Sypialnia Theatre, with which she has won numerous awards at festivals across the country. Between 2018 and 2025, she collaborated with Kraków’s Groteska Theatre. Since 2022, she has been working with the “Rabcio” Puppet Theatre in Rabka Zdrój, and since 2024 with the Figur Theatre in Kraków. She has performed in productions by, among others, Jerzy Bielunas, Jerzy Jan Połoński, Elżbieta Depty, Dagmara Żabska, Czesław Sieńka and Andrzej Rozhin. In January 2023, she received a scholarship from the Minister of Culture and National Heritage in the “Theatre” category. In November 2023, she was honoured in the Witold Sułkowski Prize for Poetic Prose competition organised by the House of Literature in Łódź. She also works as a director’s assistant and writes texts for the theatre.

Paweł Kuźma – actor at the Groteska Theatre. A graduate of the State Higher Theatre School in Kraków – Wrocław Branch, Department of Puppetry (2015).

Whilst still a student, he began working with the Puppet and Actor Theatre in Wałbrzych, where he appeared in almost forty productions over eight years. Furthermore, as a puppetry and movement choreographer, he has also collaborated with Wrocław’s Formal Arrangement Theatre and the Olsztyn Puppet Theatre. Winner of numerous awards and distinctions, including the POLUNIMA AWARD FOR YOUNG ACTORS for the most promising puppeteer of the younger generation for his role in the production ‘Day Eighty-Five’ directed by Aga Błaszczak, the Prof. Władysław Jarema Acting Award in the field of puppet animation, awarded by the Puppet Theatres Section of the Association of Polish Stage Artists (ZASP) for his roles as Santiago and Manolin in the production “Day Eighty-Five” during the 29th National Puppet Theatre Festival in Opole.

The project is being carried out with the support of PGE Polska Grupa Energetyczna – Patron of the National Museum in Kraków.