Let’s fall in love with tulips in spring!

It is with sheer pleasure that we invite you to attend 13. Tulip Exhibition. As usual, you will find at the event different varieties of tulips coming from Polish horticultural farms. The exhibition will be accompanied by a flower bulb market next to the Orangery and a rich programme of events.

Dates: 25–26 March 2023

exhibition: 10.00 am –7.00 pm (last visitors enter at 6.30 pm)
market: 10.00 am –5.00 pm

Venue: Orangery (exhibition), Palace Kitchen, Lanci’s House, Pelda Woodstore, Coach House (workshops), gardens (field game), online (lectures)

ENTRY TICKETS:

• exhibition – park entrance ticket (full: PLN 10, reduced: PLN 5, „Museum for PLN 1” ticket for 7- to 16-year-olds, children younger than 7 years of age – free entrance)
• workshops  – cost next to the description of each workshop

 

Programme of events

Online events

Venue: Facebook

Saturday, March 25th   

11.00–11.30 am | „Tulips and other bulb flowers in pots” | lecture

Speaker: Jadwiga Treder, PhD, professor at the National Institute of Horticultural Research (Instytut Ogrodnictwa – PIB, Skierniewice) and Stowarzyszenie Producentów Ozdobnych Roślin Cebulowych - Association of Decorative Bulb Plant Growers

12.00–12.30 | „Old and new types of tulips” | lecture

Speaker: Dariusz Sochacki, PhD (Warsaw University of Life Sciences and Stowarzyszenie Producentów Ozdobnych Roślin Cebulowych - Association of Decorative Bulb Plant Growers)

Sunday, March 26th

11.00–11.30 | „Do tulip flowers change their colors?” | lecture

Speaker: Agnieszka Krzymińska-Bródka, PhD, professor at the Poznań University of Life Sciences, Stowarzyszenie Producentów Ozdobnych Roślin Cebulowych - Association of Decorative Bulb Plant Growers

12.00–12.30 pm| Floristry show

Speaker: Karolina Ładyżyńska-Skrzypek (floristry expert, FLORINT’s international floristry judge)

In-person events

Saturday, March 25h

11.00 am–1.00 pm | „Boxes full of memories” | Diorama workshop

Join our memories building workshops! We will capture all the pleasant moments of one spring day at Wilanów in one tulip box.  What did you enjoy the most – a peaceful walk by the lake, green labyrinth or extravagant colors of tulips? Everybody will be free to choose their favourite moments and to build out of paper a diorama full of memories.  

Host: Ewa Behrens-Nowakowska (Education Department in the Museum of King Jan III’s Palace at Wilanów
Who: families with children (over 7)
Where: Palace Kitchen
Tickets: PLN 20 /person
Buy your ticket: https://bit.ly/Pudelko_wspomnien

11.30 am–1.00 pm | „Painted tulips” | art and calligraphy workshops

We will introduce all drawing fans to the secrets of ink painting with drawing pens, sticks or brushes. We will show you how to draw lines, experiment with ink and watercolors.  We will look for inspiration in the Wilanów collection – among the beautiful objects of everyday use.

Host: Katarzyna Pietrzak (Education Department in the Museum of King Jan III’s Palace at Wilanów)
Who: children (over 8), adults
Where: Pelda Woodstore
Tickets: PLN 20/person
Buy your ticket: https://bit.ly/malowane_tulipany_1

3.00 pm–5.00 pm | „Tulip – flower with many different meanings”| decoupage workshop

When you hand a bouquet of flowers to someone, you have in mind not only the occasion but also the meaning of the colors of those flowers. At our workshops we will explain to you what red, pink, white and violet tulips want to „tell” us. You will also prepare a souvenir for yourself – a decoupage mug pad with tulip motives.

Host: Katarzyna Pietrzak (Education Department in the Museum of King Jan III’s Palace at Wilanów)
Who: children (over 12), adults
Where: Pelda Woodstore
Tickets: PLN 20 / person
Buy your ticket: https://bit.ly/Decoupage_1

3.00–7.00 pm | „Tulip craft” | soda soap decoration workshop + guided tour of the exhibition

Bubbly tulips in different colours waiting to be done! All cleanliness freaks are invited to soap making workshops.

Soda soap, or, in other words, soap bars do not have to be white, beige or grey. Quite to the contrary – they can become a true work of art! Inspired with colours of contemporary bulb flowers – tulips, daffodils, hyacinths – we will approach soap making with a creative and artistic spirit.

The meeting will start next to the palace ticket window. Then we will move together to the Orangery to search for new inspirations. The workshop will begin about 45 minutes later in the Coach House with calculating the soap recipe.

At workshops we will use ready-to-use soap bars which we will paint using art brushes. Both soap bars and the soap mass used for soap painting will be made of grease of such plants as shea butter, coconut oil, rice bran oil, grape seed oil, apricot oil or sweet almond or olive oil. An isinglass palette will be used for dyeing. Each attendee will leave the workshop with one bar of a craft soda bar he or she made on his/her own.

Host: Marta Poławska
Who: children, adults
Where: start next to the cash window, Orangery (exhibition), Coach House (workshops)
Tickets: PLN 35/person
Buy your ticket: https://bit.ly/Warsztaty_mydlarskie_1

Sunday, March 26th 

10.00 am–2.00 pm | „Tulip craft” | soda soap decoration workshop + guided tour of the exhibition

Bubbly tulips in different colours waiting to be done! All cleanliness freaks are invited to soap making workshops.

Soda soap, or, in other words, soap bars do not have to be white, beige or grey. Quite to the contrary – they can become a true work of art! Inspired with colours of contemporary bulb flowers – tulips, daffodils, hyacinths – we will approach soap making with a creative and artistic spirit.

The meeting will start next to the palace ticket window. Then we will move together to the Orangery to search for new inspirations. The workshop will begin about 45 minutes later in the Coach House with calculating the soap recipe.

At workshops we will use ready-to-use soap bars which we will paint using art brushes. Both soap bars and the soap mass used for soap painting will be made of grease of such plants as shea butter, coconut oil, rice bran oil, grape seed oil, apricot oil or sweet almond or olive oil. An isinglass palette will be used for dyeing. Each attendee will leave the workshop with one bar of a craft soda bar he or she made on his/her own.

Who: children, adults
Where: start next to the ticket window, Orangery (exhibition), Coach House (workshop)
Tickets: PLN 35/person
Buy your ticket: https://bit.ly/Warsztaty_mydlarskie_2

10.30 am–4.00 pm | „Searching for lost tulips” | field game

The preparations for this year’s tulip exhibition turned out very effort-consuming! Arranging the display infrastructure, developing the programme and schedule of workshops and meetings, floristic compositions… The works seemed to have no end! And when finally everything seemed to be ready on Friday, a panic-stricken exhibitor ran into the Orangery shouting: - „Where are my tulips?! One box of my tulips is missing! What will I show to the visitors now?!"
Help us find the lost box! Join the field game, solve the problems and riddles, check your skills and knowledge, become a detective for a while and pick up the trail of the lost tulips!