Our Mission
NOMUS is Poland’s youngest museum of modern art, operating as a branch of the National Museum in Gdańsk, Department of Modern Art. We have created a visitor-friendly space in a former school workshop building on the historic premises of Gdańsk Shipyard. We want to talk with our visitors about the contemporary world through the medium of art, and bring art itself closer to the viewer, make it understandable and accessible to all.
Besides exhibition rooms, the NOMUS building includes a space called Friends from the Seaside. It is our place for you to meet and do community work, with a café, a sensory play corner for kids and a book shop. The ground floor features film screenings, live events, discussions and concerts. Our reading room has books on modern art for you to study, while the education room offers classes and workshops. Our ambition is to do research, write the history of art from a local perspective and place it within the network of the global phenomena that determine contemporary human situation.
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NOMUS Team
Aleksandra Grzonkowska
Art historian, curator, researcher and president of the Chmura Visual Culture Foundation, responsible for its artistic, research and curatorial programme; today a doctoral student at the Art History Institute at the University of Gdańsk. She was a curator and coordinator of many solo projects and group exhibitions by Polish and international artists (Show me your hands, Marta Romankiv & Łukasz Surowiec, Nuremberg 2020; more than the sum of its parts, Florian Tuercke, Cracow 2019). In 2004–2014 she worked with the Wyspa Progress Foundation / Wyspa Institute of Art, Artloop Festival in Sopot (2013–2014) and the Emigration Museum in Gdynia. Edited the catalogues: “Nakład własny”(2020) and “Augustus F. Sherman. Atlas imigranta” (2017) and the “Filmy” solo catalogue by Bogna Burska, co-editor of the Alternativa Editions publishing series. Recipient of the City of Gdańsk Cultural Fellowship (2021), Individual Ministry of Culture Grant under the Culture on the Web programme (2020), Cultural Fellowship of the Marshal of the Pomorskie Voivodship (2013) and a City of Gdańsk fellowship.
Maja Murawska
Art historian, curator, producer and researcher. Graduated with a master's degree in Art History from Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń (2010) and completed postgraduate studies in Cultural Management at the Gdańsk University of Technology (2023). Author of scientific articles and texts for catalogues in the field of contemporary art. Curator and co-curator of numerous exhibitions and art projects. From 2012 to 2019, she worked in the Art Department at the Dr Mikołaj Łęga Museum in Grudziądz, and in 2019 to 2023, at the PGS State Art Gallery in Sopot, where she was responsible for, among other things, taking care of the Gallery’s collection. She participated in projects devoted to the issues of social responsibility, ecology, and climate change, including the post-competition exhibition for the Baltic Horizons project, where she collaborated with artists from Lithuania, Latvia and Finland. Since 2024, she has been the Artistic Director of the Turning the Tide project, co-run by partners from Poland, Sweden, Austria, Greece, the Netherlands and Scotland, responsible for, among other things, implementing a series of international and local artistic residencies.
Our Mission
NOMUS is Poland’s youngest museum of modern art, operating as a branch of the National Museum in Gdańsk, Department of Modern Art. We have created a visitor-friendly space in a former school workshop building on the historic premises of Gdańsk Shipyard. We want to talk with our visitors about the contemporary world through the medium of art, and bring art itself closer to the viewer, make it understandable and accessible to all.
Besides exhibition rooms, the NOMUS building includes a space called Friends from the Seaside. It is our place for you to meet and do community work, with a café, a sensory play corner for kids and a book shop. The ground floor features film screenings, live events, discussions and concerts. Our reading room has books on modern art for you to study, while the education room offers classes and workshops. Our ambition is to do research, write the history of art from a local perspective and place it within the network of the global phenomena that determine contemporary human situation.
Read more >>> NOMUS Manifesto
NOMUS Team
Aleksandra Grzonkowska
Art historian, curator, researcher and president of the Chmura Visual Culture Foundation, responsible for its artistic, research and curatorial programme; today a doctoral student at the Art History Institute at the University of Gdańsk. She was a curator and coordinator of many solo projects and group exhibitions by Polish and international artists (Show me your hands, Marta Romankiv & Łukasz Surowiec, Nuremberg 2020; more than the sum of its parts, Florian Tuercke, Cracow 2019). In 2004–2014 she worked with the Wyspa Progress Foundation / Wyspa Institute of Art, Artloop Festival in Sopot (2013–2014) and the Emigration Museum in Gdynia. Edited the catalogues: “Nakład własny”(2020) and “Augustus F. Sherman. Atlas imigranta” (2017) and the “Filmy” solo catalogue by Bogna Burska, co-editor of the Alternativa Editions publishing series. Recipient of the City of Gdańsk Cultural Fellowship (2021), Individual Ministry of Culture Grant under the Culture on the Web programme (2020), Cultural Fellowship of the Marshal of the Pomorskie Voivodship (2013) and a City of Gdańsk fellowship.
Maja Murawska
Art historian, curator, producer and researcher. Graduated with a master's degree in Art History from Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń (2010) and completed postgraduate studies in Cultural Management at the Gdańsk University of Technology (2023). Author of scientific articles and texts for catalogues in the field of contemporary art. Curator and co-curator of numerous exhibitions and art projects. From 2012 to 2019, she worked in the Art Department at the Dr Mikołaj Łęga Museum in Grudziądz, and in 2019 to 2023, at the PGS State Art Gallery in Sopot, where she was responsible for, among other things, taking care of the Gallery’s collection. She participated in projects devoted to the issues of social responsibility, ecology, and climate change, including the post-competition exhibition for the Baltic Horizons project, where she collaborated with artists from Lithuania, Latvia and Finland. Since 2024, she has been the Artistic Director of the Turning the Tide project, co-run by partners from Poland, Sweden, Austria, Greece, the Netherlands and Scotland, responsible for, among other things, implementing a series of international and local artistic residencies.
