Exhibitions (85)

Long Live the King! Coronations of Saxon Wettins at Wawel

Prepared in cooperation with the Dresden State Art Collections (Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden) and the National Museum in Warsaw, the exhibition will be an extraordinary opportunity to see, in...

The madness of cataloguing

‘A visitor from outer space, if he were unfamiliar with our concept of a work of art, would ask why the Louvre has collected together the trifles of everyday life, such as vases, plates or...

Socmodernism: Architecture in Central Europe during the Cold War

Has socialist architecture left us legacy other than large-panel housing estates? Yes, indeed! Flying saucers, rocket towers, UFO bridges, pyramid hotels, corn skyscrapers and star skyscrapers, Sun...

International Cultural Centre, Rynek Główny 25

Planaria

Planaria by Yuriko Sasaoka is an art installation drawing on the tradition of trompe-l'œil painting, taking the viewer into a three-dimensional world of illusion. It brings to mind the...

The Manggha Museum of Japanese Art and Technology, ul. Konopnickiej 26

145!

In 2024, the National Museum in Krakow celebrates another, 145th anniversary of the institution's establishment. On this occasion, we invite you to a small commemorative and anniversary exhibition...

The Gallery of 19th-Century Polish Art in the Cloth Hall, Rynek Główny 3

Great Contemporaries: A Gift from Teresa and Andrzej Starmach

In autumn 2023, Teresa and Andrzej Starmach donated 67 works by the most important Polish contemporary artists to the MOCAK Collection – a significant part of their private collection,...

MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow, ul. Lipowa 4

Art of Old Poland. The 12th-18th century

The exhibition presents excellent works of the medieval and more modern art from the collections of the National Museum in Krakow, one of the oldest and best sets of old Polish art.  To the...

The Bishop Erazm Ciołek Palace, ul. Kanonicza 17

Traces of Memory

The exhibition features photographs by the late Chris Schwarz and texts by Prof. Jonathan Webber (UNESCO Committee Chair for Jewish and Interdenominational Studies at the University of Birmingham,...

Galicia Jewish Museum, ul. Dajwór 18

Polish Folk Culture

The “Polish Folk Culture” exhibition may be called a time machine. Walking through the renaissance interiors of the Town Hall on Plac Wolnica, the visitor becomes amazing to find...

The Ethnographic Museum, pl. Wolnica 1, ul. Krakowska 46

The history and Culture of Jews in Kraków

The exhibition in the main prayer hall is dedicated to the synagogue and the most important holidays of the religious Jewish Calendar, like Sabbath Day, Rosh Hashanah and the Day of Atonement, the...

Old Synagogue, ul. Szeroka 24

Orthodox Art of the Old Polish Republic

The exhibition features a hitherto little known group of icons, one of the oldest and most precious collections of Orthodox painting in Central Europe. It contains mainly the works coming from the...

The Bishop Erazm Ciołek Palace, ul. Kanonicza 17

Gallery of Decorative Art

The Gallery of Decorative Art at the National Museum in Krakow is the largest permanent exhibition of this type in Poland. The displayed objects are arranged in a chronological order from the...

The Main Building, al. 3 Maja 1