W Gdyni nie Pada
„It’s Not Raining in Gdynia” is an innovative historical and sensory exhibition, the concept of which goes beyond the framework of contemporary museums. The exhibition, which can be visited from July 7, 2024 to February 28, 2025 at the Gdynia City Museum, is a tribute and at the same time a kind of love letter to the Gdynia summer resort over the first thirty years of the 20th century. A letter written on behalf of the residents of the seaside town by three amazing women – the curator of the exhibition Gosia Bujak, graphic artist Eugenia Tynna and architect Dorota Terlecka, who gave it a specific form.
The slogan „It’s Not Raining in Gdynia” is something that appears very often in the language of the locals, as often as the characteristic „it’s clearing up there”. It is a hope, an affirmation that nothing, not even the weather, can prevent holidaymakers from resting. This slogan appears to me in the context of museum guests escaping and sheltering from the rain, who at that time crowd our foyer.
Sea, sand… and algae
Gdynia as a summer resort is a certain promise of a successful vacation, fruitful relaxation, good fun, adventures and beach pleasures. This promise is to be fulfilled by the exhibition under the telling title „It Doesn’t Rain in Gdynia”, which fulfills children’s dreams of an ideal place, its ideal aura and space for everything that it can accommodate together with the crowd of guests. This is also what its concept was based on.
design: Dorota Terlecka, Marta Pruszyńska
graphics: Eugenia Tynna
curator: Gosia Bujak
foto: Maja Tybel, Alina Żemojdzin
