Glowing murals with Skłodowska-Curie. A unique campaign for International Women in Science Day

Fluorescent murals depicting Maria Skłodowska-Curie were created in Płock, Warsaw, Poznań, Kraków, Łódź and Wrocław. This is a joint project of Orlen and the Maria Skłodowska-Curie Museum, which is under the patronage of the company. The cooperation includes, among others: initiatives popularizing science.

On Wednesday, Orlen announced that it had started cooperation with the Maria Skłodowska-Curie Museum in Warsaw, providing patronage to this institution. As the company explained, its cooperation with the institution dedicated to the Polish Nobel Prize winner will include a number of educational activities, as well as initiatives to popularize science, and the inauguration of this partnership is the official presentation of murals in six cities in Poland.

“The first result of the involvement of both parties is a series of murals depicting Maria Skłodowska-Curie. They were created in Warsaw, Płock, Poznań, Kraków, Łódź and Wrocław. The murals were made using fluorescent technology, which symbolically refers to research on radioactivity,” Orlen emphasized.

He also noted that the form of murals “combines the world of science with urban art, creating a modern and intriguing way of talking about the achievements of one of the most outstanding figures in the history of science.”

The company pointed out that the official presentation of the murals depicting Maria Skłodowska-Curie is on February 11, i.e. on Maria Skłodowska-Curie's name day and also on the International Day of Women and Girls in Science.

“This date emphasizes the importance of women in the development of science and technology and fits perfectly into the idea of ​​the entire initiative, recalling the pioneering role of Skłodowska-Curie and popularizing her achievements,” Orlen added.

As the company explained, the design of the fluorescent murals was prepared by Aleksandra Marchocka, Creative Director at P/mint, and the implementation was entrusted to Good Looking Studio, specialists in artistic activities in urban space.

Orlen also reminded that the Maria Skłodowska-Curie Museum is the only biographical museum of a Nobel Prize winner in the world. It is located at ul. Freta in Warsaw, in an 18th-century tenement house where the researcher was born. The exhibition presents her life and activities, including personal memorabilia, photographs, documents and items related to her scientific achievements.

In Płock, where the headquarters and main plant of Orlen is located, which is the largest refinery and petrochemical production complex in Poland, a mural depicting Maria Skłodowska-Curie with the inscription “Polish Queen of Sciences” appeared on the gable wall of a residential block at ul. Wyszogrodzka on the route to and from Warsaw.

In the capital, a similar mural was created at ul. Jaworzyńska, in Poznań at ul. Jeżycka, in Krakow at ul. Grzegórzecka, in Łódź at ul. Wólczańska, and in Wrocław at ul. Legnicka.

Maria Skłodowska-Curie (1867-1934) won the Nobel Prize twice, in two different fields – in physics in 1903 and in chemistry in 1911 for the discovery of radioactive elements: polonium and radium. (PAP)

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