National Museum in Warsaw
The National Museum in Warsaw was originally founded in 1862 as the Museum of Fine Arts and is currently one of the oldest art museums in the country. After Poland regained its independence in 1918, the National Museum was ascribed a prominent role in the plans for the new state and its capital city of Warsaw, and the Modernist building in which it currently resides was erected in 1927–1938. Today, the National Museum in Warsaw boasts a collection numbering around 830,000 works of art from Poland and abroad, from ancient times to the present including paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, coins, as well as utilitarian objects and design.
Now on view
4 exhibitions
Sculpture for a Wall Unit
Kaja Muszyńska
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…
Adolph Menzel (1815–1905). The Tireless Observer
Piotr Borusowski Ewa Frąckowiak
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
Danuta Jackiewicz-Król
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…
Inventing Myths
Agnieszka Lajus
This year the cycle will be inaugurated by the National Museum in Warsaw As part of a new series of exhibitions, “InterNationalgalerie”, the Alte Nationalgalerie will invite national galleries and museums from around…
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Bestiary
The aim of the exhibition is to show how, over the centuries, people have sought to understand, classify, tame, use, and build relationships with animals. These themes find rich and multifaceted reflection in the art…
18th Edition of the Photography Cabinet / Konrad Brandel. Visionary and Documentarian
Konrad Brandel was an exceptionally active and creative figure among Polish professional photographers of the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries. He embraced the new field of image-making with passion and…
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3 buildingsKrólikarnia — Xawery Dunikowski Museum of Sculpture
ul. Puławska 113a, 02-707 Warszawa
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