Cancelled stamp issue "Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw" 

Catalogue number: 5420 
Issue date: 25.10.2024 

 The stamp shows a visualization of the eastern front wall of the new building of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw.

The stamp's launch coincides with the opening of the Museum's new headquarters. New York-based Thomas Phifer and Partners, working with architects from the APA Wojciechowski studio, is responsible for its silhouette.

The museum, heralded by all successive Warsaw city presidents since 2004, has found its new home at the Central Square (formerly Defilad Square) under construction in the center of Warsaw. 

Interestingly, more than 100 new trees and thousands of shrubs will be planted around the Museum, as well as lawns and new alleys. Their irregular shape leading up to the Museum will highlight its massing, while mapping the network of former streets and the outline of buildings that were demolished after World War II to make room for the Palace of Culture and Science and the current Defilad Square.

Once the new building is put into use, the hitherto accumulated collections of the Museum, established 20 years ago, will be transferred there. The new premises will house existing and new research programs in the history of recent art. As before, the Museum will collect works by contemporary artists and organize exhibitions.