While walking along Piłsudskiego Street toward the Wielka Krokiew ski jump (at the intersection of Piłsudskiego and Tetmajera Streets, next to the Kornel Makuszyński Museum), you will find the Kornel Makuszyński bench, where you can listen to excerpts from The Adventures of Koziołek Matołek as well as two feuilletons read by Andrzej Bienias, an actor of the Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz Theatre. The bench was designed by the sculptor Marek Szala.

Kornel Makuszyński was born on January 8, 1884, in Stryj and died on July 31, 1953, in Zakopane. He was buried at the Pęksowy Brzyzek Cemetery in Zakopane.

He was a novelist, columnist, theatre critic, poet, and author of numerous books for children and young readers. Among his works are: About Two Who Stole the Moon (1928), The Merry Devil’s Friend (1930), The Girl with the Wet Head (1932), The Broken Sword (1936), A Scuffle over Basia (1937), Satan from the Seventh Grade (1937), and The Escapades of Miss Ewa (1940).

He also created the famous literary characters Koziołek Matołek and the monkey Fiki-Miki.