Culture
Socialist Realist complex from 1948-1951 with a swimming pool, a theatre and an iron gate
Culture
modern academic library from 2012 in the Culture Zone, with reading rooms and exhibitions
Culture
an exhibition pavilion from the 1960s with a frieze of bas-reliefs and green glass mosaics
Culture in central Katowice (Śródmieście): the CINiBA library, the Youth Palace of 1948-1951 and the modernist pavilion of the Bureau of Art Exhibitions.
Three places in the city centre bring together knowledge, education and art. Each is indoors, so they suit a day of poor weather.
CINiBA, the Scientific Information Centre and Academic Library, is a library shared by the University of Silesia and the University of Economics, at Bankowa 11a. The building opened to readers on 27 September 2012. It stands in the Culture Zone and runs reading rooms and cultural events.
The Youth Palace at Mikołowska 26 is a complex of ten buildings from 1948-1951, built as an out-of-school activity centre. Voivode Aleksander Zawadzki launched the idea in 1947, and since 2010 the whole is on the monument register.
The Pavilion of the Bureau of Art Exhibitions at Korfantego avenue 6 was designed by Stanisław Kwaśniewicz. It is a two-storey functionalist building with reliefs and glass mosaics from the Zawiercie glassworks, entered on the monument register in 2024.
Check the museums, the monuments and the atmospheric places. The district is described under Śródmieście.
Under culture in Silesia.
