Warsaw’s Royal Lazienki Park is to become more visitor-friendly and will allow walking on the grass.
“As a student of art history, I dreamed of lunching on the grass, like in the famous painting, and so I will try to change the park rules that ban sitting on the lawns. Not perhaps near the palace… but it’s a 90-hectare complex, so there is a lot of space” says Tadeusz Zielniewicz, the park’s new director, who assumes his post today.
The new director will be responsible for new investments and refurbishments of virtually all parts of the complex, reportedly neglected under the previous authorities.
Previously, Tadeusz Zielniewicz worked among others as the State Art Conservator and an adviser in the procurement of funds at the Royal Castle Museum in Warsaw. In 2007, he resigned from the post of director of Warsaw’s Museum of Modern Art after a disagreement over the results of a competition for the new museum building, won by Christian Kerez.
Lazienki Park is the capital’s biggest park, located in the central part of Warsaw and founded in the 18th century on the initiative of King Stanislaw Poniatowski. (ek/mmj)
Source: IAR