REINFORCEMENT OF THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE HISTORICAL PALACE OF BISHOP ERAZM CIOŁEK IN THE OLD TOWN IN CRACOW – THE APPLICATION OF THE MICROPOST TECHNOLOGY

The article describes the palace of Bishop Erazm Ciołek (beginning of the sixteenth century), situated in the Old Town in Cracow, and presents an outline history of the object, stressing the devastation of the building during the post-World War II period. The present-day programme of the palace’s function was devised in a manner guaranteeing a display of its rich architecture and historical transformations. The object in question is to be adapted for the purposes of two permanent Old Art Galleries at the National Museum in Cracow. The article proposes a classification of the methods applied for reinforcing the foundations of historical objects and basic criteria for choosing suitable methods. It also contains a characterisation of the discussed palace, in whose case attention was paid to the conditions of the base and the construction requirements; the ultimately accepted stabilisation method called for microposts