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Wojciech Zamecznik worked on the series of graphic artists' portraits from the 1940s to the 1960s. On the pictures one can distinguish the representatives of "Polish school of graphic design" - the milieu of artists producing posters for cinema and theatre production, known for their unusual formal solutions. Pictures include portraits of Henryk Tomaszewski, Roman Cieślewicz, Jan Młodożeniec, Wojciech Fangor, Franciszk Starowieyski, and Waldemar Świerzy. Apart from individual portraits, the series consists of group photographs, and representations of work in shared workshops and newspaper offices. The most important magazine presented on the picture is the "Project", artistic magazine launched after "the Thaw" (period of detente after Stalin's death - 1956 in Poland). The artistic environment gathered in the "Project" editorial team wanted to promote modern forms of graphic design and opposed the dominant socialist lack of aesthetics.

The Jerzy Grzegorzewski Section, which is a part of the Artistic Archive of the Studio Theatre, was officially opened to public in 2010, five years after the Grzegorzewski's death. It contains the most complete and the most studied collections of the Archive – the collection of Jerzy Grzegorzewski, a great figure of the Polish theatre. The legacy consists of personal notes of the director, photographs, and video recordings documenting his plays, as well as a vast collection of press snippets and reviews of his work. Some of these documents have been digitalised and are available on the Section’s website, together with commentaries and critics’ texts on Grzegorzewski’s works, written by young theatrologists. Mateusz Żurawski is working on another publication based on the documents from the Section. The Section closely cooperates with Zbigniew Raszewski Theatre Institute, an institution based in Warsaw, documenting the history of modern theatre.