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With over 60 museums and galleries, Warsaw's art landscape is rich and varied. The National Museum and royal palaces like Wilanów showcase historical collections and old masters, including works by Rembrandt. For modern and contemporary art, key venues include the Zachęta National Gallery of Art, the Centre for Contemporary Art in Ujazdów Castle, and the Museum of Modern Art, which opened its new building in 2024.
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The Apartment of Maria Dąbrowska
Sources of energy of civilization – the history of fossil fuels and Ignacy Łukasiewicz – the pioneer of the oil industry
Adam Mickiewicz 1798–1855
High Voltage Theatre
Copy and Distribute! Zines and Independent Press in Poland in the Age of Transformation
Venues in Warsaw
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Contact by Letter
Galeria Obok ZPAF
The exhibition Contact by Letter recalls three stories of Polish families who emigrated to the United States, Canada and Algeria in the 1980s and 1990s. At that time, a convergence of economic, social and political…
Sculpture for a Wall Unit
National Museum in Warsaw
Ceramic penguins, monkeys, strongmen, and sex bombs adorned wall units in Polish homes for almost the entire period of the Polish People's Republic. These unique porcelain "chamber sculptures" became a sensation abroad…
“‘I Am a Political Animal.’ Jerzy Giedroyc and ‘Kultura’ 1947–2000”
Adam Mickiewicz Museum of Literature
EXHIBITION EXTENDED UNTIL 13 DECEMBER. OPENING: 25 June, 6:00 PM OPENING WEEKEND: 27–28 June (during the opening weekend, admission to the exhibition costs one złoty). In the Year of Jerzy Giedroyc, established by the…
DSH ON TOUR | “Warszawa od nowa” in Berlin
History Meeting House
“Warszawa od nowa” in Berlin: huge interest from Berliners in the exhibition on the first years of Warsaw’s reconstruction.
DSH ON TOUR | exhibition ALL INCLUSIVE. THE ODYSSEY OF LIEUTENANT ANDRES 1939-1947
History Meeting House
The DSH outdoor exhibition “ALL INCLUSIVE. THE ODYSSEY OF LIEUTENANT ANDRES 1939-1947”, first presented in 2025, will be on show from 1 June to 31 October 2026 at the Centralne Muzeum Jeńców Wojennych w Opolu.
Łukasz Stokłosa. The Shining
Royal Castle
Łukasz Stokłosa. The Shining January 16 – October 31, 2026 Buy a ticket We present the paintings of Łukasz Stokłosa alongside the monumental works of Jan Matejko. Together they form a dialogue on painterly…
Stills from the film “Lalka”
Royal Łazienki Museum
We invite you to an open-air exhibition of stills from the latest screen adaptation of Bolesław Prus’s “Lalka”, directed by Maciej Kawalski. The film premieres on 30 September 2026. The exhibition, shown at the Open-Air…
João Maria Gusmão. Following the White Tiger
Zachęta — National Gallery of Art
An image is not merely a representation of reality – it is also a material trace of light, a physical construction, and a carrier of meanings. In his films, João Maria Gusmão uses the analogue medium to explore the…
International Day of the Girl
Royal Łazienki Museum
An exhibition by the Plan International Poland Foundation
Copy and Distribute! Zines and Independent Press in Poland in the Age of Transformation
Museum of Caricature
4 September – 15 November 2026 3 September 2026 | 18.00 – opening Museum of Caricature, ul. Kozia 11, Warszawa Suggested viewing time: approx. 50 min. The exhibition is intended for visitors aged 16 and over. The 1980s…
TRAGEDY AND GESTURES. Flight and Invention in the Painting of Wiesław Szamborski
Museum of the Warsaw Archdiocese
"Let us not be ashamed to flee." St. Ambrose, De fuga saeculi (c. 391) The flowering of independent culture in Poland fell in the crisis years of the 1980s, a decade of…
The Nabis. Prophets of a New Art
Royal Łazienki Museum
Nearly a hundred works by the Nabis, who influenced the development of modern art, are on display in a temporary exhibition at the Royal Łazienki Museum. They include paintings by masters such as Maurice Denis, Paul…
Mirrors. Between illusion and reality
Copernicus Science Centre
Do you really see what you see? We invite you on a journey through a world where reality is no longer obvious.
Józef Czapski – L’Humanité / Humanity
Museum of the Warsaw Archdiocese
Exhibition of drawings and paintings by Józef Czapski — painter, writer and witness to the most dramatic events of the 20th century. The exhibition, part of the celebrations of the Year of Józef Czapski, brings together…
Key in the Castle – DreamWear
Royal Castle
Key in the Castle Urszula Pieregończuk DreamWear 27.10–6.12.2026 The garment featured in Urszula Pieregończuk’s 2024 work DreamWear is almost entirely covered with characters from animated films. Most of them come from…
Adolph Menzel (1815–1905). The Tireless Observer
National Museum in Warsaw
Adolph Menzel is considered one of the most important German artists. His long life spanned almost the entire 19th century, and with it the changing currents and phenomena in art. In Menzel's painting, graphic and drawn…
17th Edition of the Photography Cabinet / Józef Czechowicz (1818–1888) – Photographer of Vilnius
National Museum in Warsaw
Vilnius will be the subject of the Photography Cabinet exhibition for the first time. Józef Czechowicz, a Vilnius landscape photographer, masterfully captured the city set among hills, above the picturesque meandering…
Gisleni. A Roman Architect in Poland
Royal Castle
Gisleni. A Roman Architect in Poland September 11 – December 13, 2026 He arrived in Poland as a musician and went on to make his mark on its history as an architect to the kings. For over three decades, Giovanni…
Style and Convention. Costumes from the Film "Lalka"
Royal Łazienki Museum
32 costumes from the latest adaptation of Bolesław Prus's "Lalka" directed by Maciej Kawalski are on display in a temporary exhibition at the Royal Łazienki Museum. They include the costumes of Izabela Łęcka, Stanisław…
WAYS OF THE BLACK SPREAD OVER THE WHITE LAND
Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw
Ways of the White Spread Over the Black Land was a 1948 painting by Marian Bogusz. The reversed title of this exhibition illustrates the peculiar dynamics of Poland’s relationships with Blackness and Sub-Saharan Africa…
IN THE VERY BOWELS OF CHANGES: SURREALISM AND ANTIFASCISM
Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw
As an artistic and political movement, Surrealism had an international reach and internationalist beliefs. Rooted in art and literature, it cherished much wider ambitions: to revolutionize society and redefine life…
ADAM KOZICKI: EVERYONE AT WAR WITH EVERYONE ELSE
Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw
In his new show, Adam Kozicki looks inside the throbbing, restless pulse of today’s Internet—a space where culture wars unfold without end and fragmented streams of information generate emotional tension, blurring the…
POVERELLO. Saint Francis of Assisi
Museum of the Warsaw Archdiocese
The Poor Man of Assisi in Warsaw, on a scale never seen before. On the 800th anniversary of the death of St Francis of Assisi, the Muzeum Archidiecezji Warszawskiej opens an exhibition…
Karolina Grzywnowicz. Desensitization
Zachęta — National Gallery of Art
In her latest works presented at the exhibition, Karolina Grzywnowicz addresses the political aspect of the senses – she looks at how the authorities may target the body, including both our sensory experiences of…