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Kraków, a former European Capital of Culture, has approximately 82 museums and museum branches. The city's visual art scene is anchored by the National Museum, one of Poland's finest galleries, and the collections at Wawel Hill, featuring art, collectibles, and 16th-century Flemish tapestries. Other major venues include the Czartoryski Museum with works by Leonardo da Vinci and Rembrandt, the Europeum with paintings by Brueghel, and the Gallery of 19th Century Polish Art at Sukiennice.
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History Is Made by PEOPLE - 2nd Corps
Home Army Museum
The exhibition consists of 23 panels presenting the fates and combat path of Polish soldiers under the command of Gen. Władysław Anders, profiles of distinguished senior commanders of the major units of the 2nd Polish…
Now Everything Will Be Different: Karolina Breguła
Manggha Museum of Japanese Art and Technology
What connects the works at the exhibition is the prospect of losing one’s home, and the anticipation of the coming change. The project in 2018–21 concerns mass demolitions and evictions in Taiwanese cities.
Tokyo Story
Manggha Museum of Japanese Art and Technology
Japanese pop culture and street art, cuisine, futuristic visions and technologies, and finally calligraphy inspired Studio 2 to create an extraordinary Tokyo story.
Precious, most precious. Works from the Princes Czartoryski Library
National Museum in Kraków
The impressive collection of the Princes Czartoryski Library is part of Polish national and European heritage. Started by Adam Kazimierz and Izabela Czartoryski in the 18th century and expanded by subsequent…
Art and Trade. Krakow of Craftsmen
Museum of Krakow
Město, které spatřovalo svůj rozvoj v silném řemesle, se od 14. století snažilo zajistit řemeslníkům sdruženým v cechách přednost v přístupu k materiálům a výhradní právo výroby a prodeje na území Krakova. Dbalo se o…
Kraków Bobbin Lace – Living Heritage
Museum of Krakow
In 2026, ten years will have passed since Kraków bobbin lace was inscribed on the National List of Intangible Cultural Heritage. To mark the occasion, the Stowarzyszenie Koronczarek Ziemi Krakowskiej, together with the…
The Ryazan Men. Home Army in the Gulags
Home Army Museum
Counting the consequences of the Second World War is no easy task. The 80th anniversary of the war's end prompts us to reflect both on its course and its effects. Not least important is the fact that Poland found itself…
“What do mental health and well-being mean to you?” - Photography Exhibition
Museum of Krakow
We invite you to a unique photography exhibition, the result of a project carried out using the Photovoice method – an approach that, through photographs and commentary, “gives voice” to people who are often denied it,…
Kamienica otwarta: The Imagined Object.
Museum of Krakow
“The Imagined Object” is already the second exhibition to emerge from the collaboration between ASP im. Jana Matejki w Krakowie (Wydział Intermediów) and the Museum of Krakow (Kamienica Hipolitów) within the cycle…
Akitsushima. The Island of Dragonflies
Manggha Museum of Japanese Art and Technology
In Japanese culture, in addition to determination, the dragonfly was also a symbol of courage, persistence, and victory. It was referred to as kachimushi – “the victory insect” – and ancient chronicles had given Japan…
Warrior Women: Japanese Herstories
Manggha Museum of Japanese Art and Technology
Japanese literary, historical, and visual traditions feature female characters and figures endowed with remarkable strength, courage, and strategic ability. Their portrayals operated at the intersection of history,…
Meet the Faces of the Soldiers of the AK Battalion »Pięść«
Home Army Museum
The exhibition "Meet the Faces of the Soldiers of the AK Battalion »Pięść«. From guarding the Home Army High Command to fighting in the Warsaw Uprising" presents the history of this Home Army unit and the people who…
Girls from the Clouds – 95th Anniversary of the 1st Women Aviators’ Rally around Poland
Polish Aviation Museum
The exhibition presents the extraordinary story of a pioneering rally from October 1931 — the first aviation feat by women around the borders of the Polish Republic. The nearly 3,000-kilometre route included stops in…
Zofia Kulik. Instead of Sculpture. Footnotes
MuFo Rakowicka
Is expert knowledge needed to understand contemporary art? The exhibition “Zofia Kulik. Instead of Sculpture. Footnotes” invites you to look at art from the perspective of your own experience – with openness and…
Intersections. Papercuts by Anna Wencel
Galicia Jewish Museum
What can be depicted by a papercut? Symbols, ornaments, and floral motifs are the most popular types of patterns. But can a papercut say something about more complex issues? About presence and absence, heritage and…
Scouts of the Grey Ranks in Occupied Kraków
Home Army Museum
The exhibition presents the history of the Szare Szeregi (Grey Ranks), a clandestine organisation whose members fought during the Second World War to regain Poland's independence.
On the Soul and Character of the Polish Nation. Zrzeszenie Wolność i Niezawisłość
Home Army Museum
Prepared jointly by the Instytut Pamięci Narodowej, the Muzeum Armii Krajowej w Krakowie and the Muzeum Żołnierzy Wyklętych i Więźniów Politycznych PRL in Warsaw, the exhibition traces the origins of the WiN…
In the Paris Atelier of Stanisław Wyspiański and Józef Mehoffer
National Museum in Kraków
The fifth edition of the exhibition at the Wyspiański Museum, a branch of the National Museum in Kraków, will be expanded with two additional presentations in the ground-floor gallery: “In the Paris Atelier of Stanisław…
Vincent van Gogh: ‘Country Cottages Among the Trees’
National Museum in Kraków
At the European Art Gallery of the National Museum in Kraków, we are exhibiting the only painting by Vincent van Gogh in Polish public collections, entitled Country Cottages Among the Trees, from the John Paul II…
“Arrive Tokio!” – A Flight Story That Could Be a Ready-Made Film Script
Polish Aviation Museum
What do you do when the first aircraft crashes before the actual start?… Try again! What do you do when, on the return journey, a tornado damages the aircraft, a wing has to be shortened, and the propeller repaired with…
View of the Krakowianki – Tola Certowicz
Museum of Krakow
We invite you to another presentation in the series “View of the Krakowianki”. This time, at the exhibition “Kraków from the Beginning, Without End”, we will meet sculptor Tola Certowicz. October is the month when…
Hotel Forum
Museum of Krakow
Striking in its architectural form, an outstanding example of brutalism, a reinforced-concrete landmark of the once intimate landscape of Ludwinów. Hotel Forum was not lucky with the times, but it was lucky with people…
Eiko Ishioka. Who Am I?
Manggha Museum of Japanese Art and Technology
The first presentation in Poland of one of the icons of Japanese design, the most important graphic designer from the Land of the Rising Sun. From her rich body of work, spanning advertising campaigns, publishing…
The Faces of Czapski
National Museum in Kraków
Pre-war art critics of Józef Czapski (1896–1993) emphasised the stylistic diversity of his paintings. In 1938, Roman Kołoniecki observed that Czapski does not present the viewer “with a choice between creative…