director subsequently undertook more of such tips in the 1980s and 1990s together with artists and researchers (Andrzej Strumiłło accompanied him to Nepal). The Museum also commissioned researchers and scholars such as Dr Elżbieta Walter from the University of Warsaw’s Department of South Asia to make purchases on its behalf. The Museum’s stock of Indian paintings has few counterparts intentionally. Its collection of Mithila art (Mithila, Bihar) is the largest in Europe and one of the biggest in the world. The Indian section also includes a selection of paintings from Odisha, Bengal, Rajasthan, and Gujarat. The Museum can also boast interesting graphic arts, including works by Bangladeshi artist Kalidas Karmakar, who studied graphic arts in Warsaw and brought the first artistic printmaking press back home to Bangladesh. Another set of prints hails from Koolamandal, a village founded by artists in the 1950s in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.