Exhibitions (93)

81st Kraków Nativity Scene Contest

On the day of the contest, nativity scene makers will start arriving in the Main Market Square early in the morning, hoping to find the best place to present their works on the steps at the foot of...

Main Market Square

All Around Nativity Scenes

On the first Thursday of December, Cracovian nativity scene makers once again gathered at the foot of the statue of Adam Mickiewicz to take part in the 81st competition. Their creations are now on...

Fashion and Sport

In the 20th century, we witnessed a spectacular development of sports fashion. A healthy lifestyle promoted by eminent educators and doctors, which also consisted of regular physical exercise,...

The Feliks Jasieński Szołayski House, pl. Szczepański 9

Before They Built the Wall. Jews in Podgórze

The title of the exhibition refers primarily to the time before the construction of the wall of the Kraków Ghetto in Podgórze, which separated the Jews from the outside world during...

Podgórze Museum, ul. Limanowskiego 51

Genius Loci. Place – People – Collections. The first instalment

The exhibition integrated in the permanent exhibition at the Jan Matejko House and planned to run throughout the year, the four instalments will recall the most important events and figures involved...

The Jan Matejko House, ul. Floriańska 41

Explain the Inexplicable

The exhibition tells the story of the attempts made by the Jewish population in the immediate post-war period to come to terms with the tragic experience of the German occupation in Kraków...

Oskar Schindler’s Enamel Factory, ul. Lipowa 4

The City. Technosensivity

Poland’s first such wide-ranging account on the evolution of engineering thought, its contribution to the transformation of the city and the lives of its inhabitants. Embark on a journey...

Museum of Engineering and Technology, ul. św. Wawrzyńca 15

Maria Stangret. Playing Places

Maria Stangret (1929–2020) was a painter, actress and writer. Her artistic career can be viewed as taking a position in relation to 20th-century art, to the avant-garde theatre of her husband...

Cricoteka Centre for Documentation of the Art of Tadeusz Kantor, ul. Nadwiślańska 2

Good heavens!

Nearly 400 embroideries and laces are shown at the exhibition. A whole lot, and yet it is only a small part of the achievements of the members of LUD-Art Association at the Ethnographic Museum in...

Esther's House, Ethnographic Museum, ul. Krakowska 46

Matejko. The Painter and History

Among Polish painters, there is perhaps none more universally known than Jan Matejko. His works have accompanied generation after generation of Poles, at the very least from the beginnings of their...

The Main Building, al. 3 Maja 1

Singer. A Masterpiece by Józef Mehoffer

The Singer is one of Mehoffer’s most highly regarded paintings, on a daily basis in the collection of the Lviv National Art Gallery. The work is characterised by sublime colours. It reveals...

The Józef Mehoffer House, ul. Krupnicza 26

Japan at the Threshold of Modernity

The exhibition at the Szołayski House is the second of three scenes of the series "Japan at the threshold of modernity. Design and patterning of clothes from around 1900 to the 1960s as an example...

The Feliks Jasieński Szołayski House, pl. Szczepański 9