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Zachęta Art Gallery is holding a special exhibition this festive season, featuring illustrations and sculptures by award-winning artist Józef Wilkoń, including a wooden Nativity scene and an enormous Noah's Ark, stuffed with wooden animals of all sizes. Also on display are sketches of animals by the artist, which complement the 3D beasts lurking within this representation of the biblical boat.

Previously displayed outdoors, the ark is now housed within the art gallery and forms a passageway through one of the exhibition rooms. Visitors are invited to jump on deck and mingle with the creatures. Life-sized wooden animals and birds peep out from every orifice of the ark. You name it, the ark's got it - everything from woodpeckers to warthogs. This fantastic sculpture has sailed into Warsaw just in time for Christmas, and will delight children and adults alike.

Wilkoń was born in the 1930s and studied at the Jagellonian University and the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. He is most famous for his work as an illustrator of children's books and his artwork often ventures into the realms of legend and fairytale.

Zachęta Art Gallery hails the exhibition as a "Christmas present for a multi-generational audience," so hop aboard and let the magic of the season begin. The exhibition lasts until January 21.