Neon Museum, Warsaw
Photographer Ilona Karvinsky and graphic designer David Hill realized managed to save more than 200 neon signs and about 500 letters from imminent destruction.[3] The museum also maintains a huge archive of documentation, drawings, photographs and original plans related to the history of these signs.[7][8] The museum acquired, among others, the neon signs of the restaurants "Shanghai" and "Ambasador", the café "Jaś i Małgosia" and the cooperative trading house "Sezam".[9] The museum's collection includes a "Karina" sign made from the letters of the original neon "Tkaniny dekoracyjne" signage.The history of the museum began in 2005 when Ilona Karwińska saved the Berlin neon sign from Marszałkowska Street in Warsaw.
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