The Włodzimierz and Jerzy Kulczycki Art Gallery located near the famous ‘Pod Jedlami’ villa is a manor-style building, built by the Koziański family in the early 1920s. After the Second World War, the Office of the Council of Ministers bought the house from its inheritors and the villa became an elegant building visited by the highest officials of the Polish People’s Republic, including Prime Minister Józef Cyrankiewicz – hence, the house is informally known as ‘Cyrankiewiczówka’. As a result of efforts by several employees of the Tatra Museum, the city officials gave the building to the Museum in 1981, to be used as the Eastern Carpet Gallery. The carpets were donated by Jerzy Kulczycki’s widow, Anna Piotrowicz-Kulczycka.