A unique inn awaits those seeking entertainment in Olomouc, a favourite meeting place of Polish intellectuals who have stayed in the city, such as Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Adam Michnik, Czesław Miłosz and many others whose names do not necessarily begin with the letter M.

The inn "in clouds of smoke"

"We were sitting in an inn, in clouds of smoke, between the good-natured steadiness of the older regulars, which mingled with the resilience and sex appeal of the younger ones." - this is how journalist Ziemowit Szczerek captured the atmosphere prevailing at the beginning of the third millennium in the legendary pub "U Musea" , commonly known as "Ponorka" ("the submarine"), in his book "Miedzymorze. Journeys through real and imagined Central Europe'. In the cramped, somewhat claustrophobic interior at 8 1. máje Street, reminiscent of a tunnel, Polish intellectuals had been meeting since the 1970s.

Well-known frequenters

The place became extremely popular among Poles thanks to the Czech poet, columnist, translator and, above all, tireless promoter of Polish culture in the Czech Republic - Václav Burian (1959-2014), who enjoyed sipping beer at one of the pub's tables. His companions at the Ponorka included Ryszard Krynicki, Ewa Lipska, Leszek Engelking, Adam Michnik, Czesław Miłosz, Sławomir Mrożek, Andrzej Stasiuk, Monika Sznajdermann and Tadeusz Mazowiecki.