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 | | The Czartoryskis watched all this warily from exile in Spain, never giving up hope of returning to Poland - and their self-imposed task of conserving its cultural heritage - once the communists had been ousted. |
 | | So it was Prince Adam Karol Czartoryski, latest in a long line of noble collectors, who was waiting in Krakow, not far from where "Lady with an Ermine" was hanging, when Laurie Winters, a curator from far-off Milwaukee, arrived with her then-director, Russell Bowman, to ask the favor of a loan. |
 | | The Czartoryski Museum is now owned and operated by a foundation, essentially a private-public partnership, that is serving as a model for other non-profit institutions in Eastern European. |
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