Museum of Vladimir Vysotsky in Koszalin

Museum of Vladimir Vysotsky in Koszalin (Polish: Muzeum Włodzimierza Wysockiego w Koszalinie) is a private museum dedicated to Vladimir Vysotsky, which opened in the city of Koszalin, Poland.

History

It as started by enthusiast, author and publicist Marlena Zimna (1969 – 2016) in May 1994, in her apartment. The basis became collection is Marlena's, which she began to collect in 1984. The initial collection had 500 exhibits. Currently, the museum has collected more than 15 000 exhibits from different countries.

Collection

Here the poet's personal items, autographs, drawings, drafts, letters, photographs, unique film footage, vinyl records, CDs, DVD, a large library, a video library, artistic productions, dedicated to Vysotsky, posters, playbills, theater aaplets, documents, bookplates, postal stamps, and even items made in accordance with the well-known principle of "three K" (commerce, conjuncture, kitsch): dolls matryoshkas "Vysotsky", matchboxes with a portrait of the poet, stereo greeting card, calendars and even the plastic bags.

A special place in the collection takes guitar, on which Vysotsky played at a concert in Casablanca in April 1976. She was stored at moroccan journalist Hassan El-Sayed, who Vladimir Semionovich presented him together with autographed-paraphrase (a reworked text) of "Songs about a giraffe", written right on the guitar:

(russian text)

               В желтой жаркой Африке,
               Забыв мороз московский,
               Как-то вдруг вне графика
               Выступил Высоцкий.

(english translation)

                      In the yellow hot Africa,
                      Forgetting about moscow frost,
                      By breaking your schedule
                      Gave a concert Vysotsky.

Africa, Casablanca, 1976, April. Hassan from Volodya. Signature.

Activities

Among the activities of the museum - dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the death of Vysotsky's concert in Koszalin with participation polish stars, including Daniel Olbrychski (2000), the annual International Festival of documentary films about Vysotsky with participation film directors, screenwriters, the bibliographers by Vladimir Vysotsky, musicians, singers, actors from different countries (since 2003), International project of translations by Vysotsky poems in languages of the world (so far carried out 114 translations of poems and songs in 157 languages with participation 62 poets and translators from 26 countries). May 29, 2014 at the 20th anniversary of the museum been created the Institute named after Vladimir Vysotsky.

References

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Coordinates: 54°11′22″N 16°11′05″E / 54.1895°N 16.1847°E

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2. "Музей Высоцкого в Кошалине". Vagante.ru. Retrieved 2016-10-27.
3. "Vysotsky in new translations". Wysotsky.com. Retrieved 2016-10-27.
4. "Vladimir Vysotsky - Museum Parade". Wysotsky.com. Retrieved 2016-10-27.