Museum of the Warsaw Archdiocese
The Museum of the Warsaw Archdiocese is a church museum founded in 1938, located on ul. Dziekania 1 next to Warsaw's cathedral. It holds and displays sacred art, historic art and Polish contemporary art, and is considered one of the most significant diocesan museums in Poland.
Now on view
5 exhibitions
TRAGEDY AND GESTURES. Flight and Invention in the Painting of Wiesław Szamborski
dr Kazimierz Piotrowski
"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…
Józef Czapski – L’Humanité / Humanity
Piotr Bernatowicz
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…
POVERELLO. Saint Francis of Assisi
Roksana Gawrońska, o. Andrzej Zając OFMConv
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…
Permanent Exhibition „Sacrum i profanum”
The museum collection comprises impressive holdings of liturgical textiles, goldsmith’s work, sculpture, painting, drawing and prints. Of particular note are the woodcuts by Albrecht Dürer from 1498–1511…
Blessed Stefan Wyszyński – Primate of the Millennium
What connects the Museum of the Warsaw Archdiocese with the Primate of the Millennium? Thanks to the persistent efforts of Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński, the museum was reactivated despite the reluctance of the authorities…