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Around 400 photographs from the "Warsaw Autumn" festival archives is available on www.polmic.pl as part of the "Warsaw Autumn Available!" project.

In the last three years, the Polish Music Information Center POLMIC has been implementing a programme of complex archivisation, digitalisation and sharing collections of recordings and photos related to the "Warsaw Autumn" International Festival of Contemporary Music – the most important contemporary music festival in Poland and one of the most important events of this type in Europe and in the world. Photographs documenting the festival over the past 60 years of its existence are a true national heritage, reflecting the history of Polish musical culture in this period, immortalizing its creators and presenting their most important works. The aim of our activities is to protect archival photos from inevitable degradation and to provide valuable materials to a wide audience, through the polmic.pl and muzar.polmic.pl websites, as well as through the monographic portals of selected composers.

A unique and priceless collection of photographs includes those from the International Festival of Contemporary Music "Warsaw Autumn" from the years 1977-1980, thus from the four consecutive editions of the festival (from XXI to XXV). Photographs available in the online gallery are primarily documentation of festival concerts and accompanying events in the lens of Jan Hausbrandt and Andrzej Glanda – photographers who collaborated with the "Warsaw Autumn" for many years.

The project was co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage from the Culture Promotion Fund.