Opening of the Anna Gosławska-Fortuna Painting Conservation Studio

On Monday, 27 April, we officially opened the new Anna Gosławska-Fortuna Painting Conservation Studio.

Anna Gosławska-Fortuna was an art historian who had been associated with the National Museum in Gdańsk since the beginning of her professional career. From 2008 to 2021, she served as Deputy Director and Chief Conservator. She saved thousands of museum objects from deterioration. Her contribution to the development of our museum was commemorated by former Director of the National Museum in Gdańsk Wojciech Bonisławski, Deputy Director Waldemar Elwart, Chief Conservator Cátia Viegas-Wesołowska and Grzegorz Fortuna, Anna’s husband.

Anna Gosławska-Fortuna was posthumously awarded the Bene Merenti gold medal of the National Museum in Gdańsk.

Anna Gosławska-Fortuna (30 July 1948 – 29 April 2023)

She graduated in Art History from the Faculty of Humanities at the Catholic University of Lublin. She devoted her professional life to the National Museum in Gdańsk, where she worked for 43 years. From 1982 to 2008, she headed the Conservation Department, and from 2008 to 2021 she served as Deputy Director and Chief Conservator.

One of her most important responsibilities was the daily supervision of Hans Memling’s The Last Judgement. She led conservation and research projects of international scope, bringing together leading specialists from around the world to work on The Last Judgement. She was also an expert in medieval textiles.