Temporary Exhibitions in Warsaw

100th Anniversary of the WUM Faculty of Pharmacy 1926-2026

29 January 2026

A temporary exhibition marking the 100th anniversary of the WUM Faculty of Pharmacy, on view in the Library-Information Centre since 29 January 2026.

Four Seasons - Mazovia

4 September 2026

An exhibition on the Mazovian landscape and how it changes through the seasons, opened 4 September 2026 at the Museum of the Polish Peasant Movement.

On the Royal Stage. Stanisław August's Theatrical Canon

12 June 2026 - 6 September 2026

Costumes, props, set designs and production photographs built around the four playwrights of Stanisław August's canon: Sophocles, Molière, Racine and Shakespeare. Objects from the Theatre Museum.

Aleksander Minorski. Photography is Intervention

18 March 2026 - 6 September 2026

A monographic exhibition dedicated to the artist: Aleksander Minorski (1906-1982) - a photographer, filmmaker, and writer - today we would also call him an activist - treated photography primarily as a tool for social engagement and real intervention.

Wickerwork. Craft and Design

29 May 2026 - 30 April 2027

An exhibition on traditional and contemporary wickerwork as Polish intangible cultural heritage, on view through 30 April 2027 at the SGGW Museum.

Warsaw - September 1939. Woodcuts by Eugeniusz Pichell

1 September 2026

A portfolio of woodcuts by Eugeniusz Pichell, "Warsaw - September 1939", on view inside the former Gestapo detention cells at the Mausoleum of Struggle and Martyrdom.

16th Photography Cabinet: Photographing the Work of Art

10 June 2026 - 10 September 2026

The 16th rotation of the Photography Cabinet looks at how photography reproduced works of art from the 19th century onward - and how that function shaped the art market, art publishing, and access to culture.

Art Déco and the Sacred. Decorative Art of the Interwar Period

23 April 2026 - 13 September 2026

The first exhibition in Poland to show, on this scale, the links between the modern aesthetics of the interwar period and religious space - chalices, vestments, patens, medallions, prints and plaques in the art déco style.

Redesigning Polish Folk Furniture. Tradition Designed Anew

15 August 2026 - 13 September 2026

The results of a 2023-2025 research project at the Interior Architecture Faculty of Warsaw's Academy of Fine Arts: new furniture drawn from Polish folk furniture, from fieldwork in open-air museums to full-scale pieces.

Collector. Ignacy Korwin-Milewski (1846-1926)

17 April 2026 - 13 September 2026

The reconstructed collection of Count Ignacy Korwin-Milewski - around 250 Polish paintings, including works by Matejko, Chełmoński, and Aleksander Gierymski, assembled by one of the 19th century's most important patrons of Polish art.

TRAGEDY AND GESTURES. Fugue and Invention in the Painting of Wiesław Szamborski

19 June 2026 - 15 November 2026

A chamber-scale exhibition of about a dozen paintings by Wiesław Szamborski from 1964-2013, drawn from the artist's own holdings and the Warsaw Archdiocese Museum, built around the motif of fugue - flight and invention at once - as a wise, moral act rooted in the independent culture of the 1980s.

Józef Czapski - L'Humanité / Humanity

19 June 2026 - 29 November 2026

An exhibition of drawings and paintings by Józef Czapski from the museum's own collection, spanning over half a century of the artist's work - from ink and pencil drawings to watercolours and oils - part of the Year of Józef Czapski.

The Scout Cross. An Extraordinary History

An exhibition at the Museum of Scouting devoted to the history of the scout cross - the principal badge of the Polish Scouting and Guiding Association - and its tradition of more than a hundred years.

“For the Soul and Character of the Polish Nation. The Freedom and Independence Association”

An exhibition on the Freedom and Independence Association, the largest post-war underground organisation in Poland, with Lukasz Cieplinski’s prison notes and Hieronim Dekutowski’s uniform jacket.

“Freedom Is Within Us”

13 December 2025

An exhibition on martial law staged in Pavilion XII of the former Mokotow prison, where opposition activists were held after 13 December 1981.

Polish Poster. The Collection - Part 2

20 June 2026 - 13 September 2026

The second rotation of the permanent display at the newly renovated Poster Museum in Wilanów - the world's first museum dedicated to posters. Nearly 36,000 objects, shown in rotation because paper is fragile.

“They Drove Bierut off the Platform. Szczecin, April 1946”

An exhibition on the first anti-communist protest by Polish scouts - the April 1946 rally in Szczecin that turned into a demonstration of support for Stanislaw Mikolajczyk.

A History Written with Chess Pieces. A Century of the Polish Chess Federation

24 April 2026

A five-part panorama of chess in Poland - from the thirteenth-century Sandomierz chessmen to the trophies of Jan-Krzysztof Duda - marking the centenary of the Polish Chess Federation.

All of Us or None

17 July 2026 - 4 October 2026

Imran Perretta's first solo exhibition in Poland - sound, film and poetry on power, state surveillance and exclusion. From 17 July to 4 October 2026.

Baraniak. 145 Interrogations on Rakowiecka Street

An exhibition in the corridor of Pavilion XI devoted to Archbishop Antoni Baraniak, secretary to Primate Stefan Wyszynski, imprisoned and tortured at Mokotow.

Elliott Erwitt. Retrospective

20 March 2026 - 20 September 2026

Nearly 130 photographs by Elliott Erwitt of Magnum Photos - the first retrospective of this scale in Poland, covering more than 70 years of his work.

Evidence of Crime

Nearly 200 objects recovered from the burial pits in Section “L” of the Powazki Military Cemetery, shown in Pavilion X of the former prison.

Fighting Solidarity

22 May 2021

A multimedia exhibition in 18 cells of the former General Pavilion on the activity of Fighting Solidarity in Poland and abroad.

Football Championships in World Philately

16 July 2026 - 13 September 2026

A temporary exhibition presenting the great football tournaments, players and stadiums recorded on postage stamps from around the world, from the private collection of Krzysztof Bąkała.

From Cyclists to Footballers - the Magic of Montreal ’76

31 July 2026

Fifty years after the 1976 Montreal Olympics, the museum shows photographs, archival documents and memorabilia from the best result the Polish Olympic team has ever achieved.

The Most Beautiful Polish Books 2025

16 July 2026 - 13 September 2026

A book reveals its full potential when we view it as a whole: a medium of content and image, a material object, a space for reading, and a form of visual culture.

Ludu, bój się

22 June 2026 - 15 September 2026

"Ludu, bój się" at POLIN Museum presents a personal, contemporary perspective of young people on the history of the Holocaust and the memory of violence - the result of the international CoREM project, in which...

Coming of Age

1 May 2026 - 20 September 2026

How does contemporary art describe the transition from childhood to adulthood and the problems teenagers face today? Can artistic tools help them build relationships and create alternative forms of communication...

The Beauty of Passing. Contemporary Botanical Illustration

1 September 2026 - 26 September 2026

Works by Izabela Wolska-Kuśmider - leaves caught at a chosen moment of their existence, in watercolour, graphite and ink. The plants come from the historic Wilanów gardens.

Warsaw Under Construction 18. Sovereign and Fed

30 August 2026 - 27 September 2026

The main theme of WARSAW UNDER CONSTRUCTION 18 in 2026 is food sovereignty, which is becoming an important element in contemporary urban development strategies.

Jura Shust

17 July 2026 - 27 September 2026

Resin* Solar Plexus is the first solo exhibition in Poland by Belarusian artist Jura Shust. It tells a story about the relationship between human spirituality and technology. For the exhibition, the artist prepared a new, multichannel installation...

Doctors of the Ujazdów Hospital in the Katyń Graves

14 July 2026 - 30 September 2026

An exhibition by the Main Medical Library commemorating around 600 Polish doctor-officers of the Ujazdów Hospital murdered by the NKVD at Katyń in 1940.

The May Coup: A Caricaturist's Sharp Eye

20 May 2026 - 30 September 2026

Caricatures by Gustaw Rogalski and Zdzisław Czermański as sharp commentary on the 1926 May Coup and the Sanacja years. At the main Museum of Independence building through 30 September 2026.

The Memory of the Uprising

30 July 2026 - 4 October 2026

Paintings and installations by Bogusław Lustyk on the Warsaw Uprising. At the Brama Bielańska Gallery in the Warsaw Citadel through 4 October 2026.

Home on Roots

1 August 2026 - 11 October 2026

Home on Roots is an exhibition by two artists who use extremely different means of expression to create works with a similar message. Their works demonstrate that local identity can be a point of support, a navigational tool...

Patryk Różycki. Transformation

31 July 2026 - 11 October 2026

The series of paintings addresses Różycki's childhood and adolescence in the countryside, amidst economic and social exclusion related to the transformation of the 1990s, and the shame associated with it.

I Am a Political Animal. Jerzy Giedroyc and Kultura 1947-2000

25 June 2026 - 31 October 2026

An exhibition devoted to one of the most important figures of twentieth-century Polish intellectual life and to the Literary Institute and the monthly Kultura that he created.

Images of Identity. The Collection of Berlin's Pre-War Jewish Museum

10 April 2026 - 30 November 2026

Seventy-five years after the collection arrived, the Jewish Historical Institute shows the iconographic archive of Berlin's Jewish Museum for the first time - over four thousand boards. From 10 April to 30 November 2026.

Kresowe koleje losu. Marking 80 Years Since the Expatriation

16 July 2026

A temporary exhibition on the fate of Poles forcibly resettled from the eastern borderlands after the Second World War, staged inside a century-old covered wagon in the open-air locomotive park.

Neither Water Nor Land

25 April 2026 - 27 September 2026

The bog as an unintended archive: a group exhibition on peatlands moving between geology, myth and contemporary politics, from 25 April to 27 September 2026.

Next Door to Pola Gojawiczyńska

15 April 2026

An exhibition held as part of the Year of Pola Gojawiczyńska in Mazovia, presenting the writer's life in the interwar period, when she lived on Brzozowa Street.

She's Touching Her Forehead, She Can Feel It Burning, She Probably Has a Fever

20 June 2026 - 20 September 2026

Karolina Breguła on catastrophe that arrives slowly: a portrait of a society gripped by fear and division. From 20 June to 20 September 2026.

No Hands. How the Bicycle Changes Warsaw

29 May 2026 - 2 July 2027

An exhibition about the bicycle as a technology that shapes everyday practices, affects the experience of the body and the way the city is perceived, presenting cycling as both a historical and a contemporary phenomenon.

START I - Means We Are Off! Polish Cameras

16 June 2026

An exhibition on the history of Polish photographic technology and industrial design - cameras, lenses, flash units and accessories from the museum's holdings and private collections.

The Krzysztof Findziński Collection. A Cabinet of Memories. Asia

26 June 2026 - 31 October 2026

A temporary exhibition presenting objects from Asia, most of them donated to the Asia and Pacific Museum by Krzysztof Findziński, the collector who is also the subject of the show.

The Parnassus of Warsaw. A Century of the Literary Award of the City of Warsaw

15 April 2026

An exhibition marking the centenary of the Literary Award of the City of Warsaw, presenting the history of the award in 1926-1938 and in 1946 and the writers who received it.

The Yotvingian Eldorado

Finds from the 12th and 13th centuries from the richest Yotvingian cemetery, discovered at Krukówek and recovered from looters. The museum gives no dates.

This Cat Was Drawn During the War

21 March 2026 - 13 September 2026

An exhibition on art made in the face of war - from the Second World War and Yugoslavia to the war against Ukraine. From 21 March to 13 September 2026.

Tory w zgliszczach Warszawy. Rebuilding the Railway, the Railway Rebuilding

A temporary exhibition on the rebuilding of Warsaw and the Polish railway after the Second World War, staged inside the historic EW51 electric multiple unit carriage.

Treasures of the Middle Ages

2 March 2026

The museum's finest medieval holdings - gold, silver, glass and bronze from the 6th to the 13th century, including the Borucin hoard. From 2 March 2026, with no closing date given.

Warsaw 1927

12 August 2026 - 14 September 2026

An exhibition of stereoscopic photographs of Warsaw taken in the autumn of 1927, from the collection of Tomasz Bielawski.

Who Are You, Maria?

16 April 2025

The main display of the Maria Skłodowska-Curie Museum: a temporary exhibition on the many roles the Nobel laureate played in her life - Varsovian, daughter, wife, student, scientist, mother and social activist. Open since 16 April 2025, until work on the new permanent exhibition begins.

A Photojournalist at War. 36 Frames

31 July 2026 - 30 September 2026

An open-air show on the Łazienki park railings: photographs by the Warsaw Uprising's Press War Correspondents. Prepared by the Warsaw Rising Museum, free admission.

A World of Things. Acquisitions 2023-2025

5 May 2026 - 30 September 2026

Over 20 of the nearly 60 objects the museum acquired in 2023-2025: a portrait of Stanisław August from Bacciarelli's workshop, a watercolour by Zygmunt Vogel, Meissen porcelain, a gardener's album from 1941.

Sculpture for the Wall Unit

14 May 2026 - 25 October 2026

Ceramic penguins, monkeys, and strongmen that decorated the 'wall unit' shelving of Polish apartments throughout the communist era - original prototypes designed at the Institute of Industrial Design in the 1950s, now cult objects among design collectors.

Everything Will Change

5 June 2026 - 27 October 2026

An open-air exhibition opening the museum's new 'Resources' programme - four installations by artist collectives on polycrisis, the appropriation of space, and the lasting consequences of colonisation. On aleja gen. Pattona through 27 October 2026.

Echoes of the Great War

4 August 2026 - 30 October 2026

A temporary exhibition on the First World War at the Museum of Independence, al. Solidarności 62. On view through 30 October 2026.

Łukasz Stokłosa. Shining

16 January 2026 - 31 October 2026

Łukasz Stokłosa's paintings among the monumental works of Jan Matejko - a dialogue on the painted interpretation of history. Until 31 October 2026.

Mirrors. Between Illusion and Reality

Dozens of mirror exhibits produced by the Swiss Technorama, complemented by works by Oskar Zięta. On view until 31 October 2026.

João Maria Gusmão. Following the White Tiger

28 August 2026 - 31 October 2026

An image is not merely a record of reality - it is also a material trace of light, a carrier of memory, and a space for imagination. In his films, João Maria Gusmão uses analog media to explore the relationships between the materiality of the image and history, ideology, and the ways we perceive reality.

Photocopy and Hand Out! Zines and the Independent Press in Poland During the Transition

4 September 2026 - 15 November 2026

Zines and the independent press of the 1980s and 1990s, when the photocopier became a tool of resistance. 4 September to 15 November 2026, opening 3 September.

The Nabis. Prophets of a New Art

16 July 2026 - 15 November 2026

Over 90 works by the Nabis - Sérusier, Bonnard, Denis, Vuillard, Vallotton - from eleven foreign institutions including the Musée d'Orsay. The first exhibition in Poland devoted to the group.

Off the Path. Maria and Piotr's Bicycle Journeys

21 April 2026 - 29 November 2026

The exhibition 'Off the Path' tells the story of the private lives of Maria Skłodowska-Curie and Piotr Curie, focusing on their bicycle journeys as a symbol of freedom and love. It also presents the bicycle as a tool for women's emancipation.

What Is This Queue For? The Polish People's Republic in a Musical Mirror

3 September 2026 - 6 December 2026

The history of communist Poland seen through the popular music of 1944-1989. 3 September to 6 December 2026.

The Sobieskis and the Stuarts - The Splendour and Spectre of the Crown

25 October 2025 - 13 December 2026

Poland's first exhibition on a shared thread in the histories of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and of England, Scotland and Ireland - the marriage of Maria Clementina Sobieska, granddaughter of Jan III, to James III/VIII Stuart.

Rubensiana. Collecting Fascinations in Poland, 17th-21st Centuries

16 May 2026 - 31 December 2026

The culmination of a multi-year research project on Rubens in Polish collections. The show asks where the line runs between original, replica and copy - and how the value placed on each has shifted.

Olga Boznańska at the Gallery of 19th-Century Art

10 September 2025 - 3 January 2027

An extended display of nearly thirty works by Olga Boznańska from the National Museum's collection, marking the 160th anniversary of her birth and the 85th of her death, within the permanent Gallery of 19th-Century Art.

Heart of Change: Surrealism and Anti-Fascism

26 June 2026 - 10 January 2027

As an artistic and political movement, Surrealism had an international reach and espoused internationalist views. Rooted in art and literature, it had much broader ambitions: to revolutionize society and redefine life itself.

Paths of Blacks Enter the White Land

26 June 2026 - 10 January 2027

Paths of Whites Invade the Black Continent is the title of a 1948 painting by Marian Bogusz. In the exhibition title, its meaning is reversed to show the particular dynamic of Polish relations with Blackness and Sub-Saharan Africa during the Polish People's Republic (PRL) era.

Heliograms in the Solomon Room. In Search of Light

12 September 2025 - 31 January 2027

Nicolas Grospierre's heliograms fill the empty frames left by Marcello Bacciarelli's paintings, burnt by the Germans in 1944. The works change under the sun.

90/90. Around the Museum

19 June 2026 - 1 February 2027

On the occasion of its 90th anniversary, the Museum of Warsaw reveals its behind-the-scenes operations, usually inaccessible to visitors. As part of the '90/90. Around the Museum' project, the public will see how one of the capital's most important cultural institutions functions and will get to know its team. 90 objects for 90 years. From June 19, 2026, to February 1, 2027, the Museum of Warsaw will present 90 items related to its daily operations.

Edward Dwurnik. Pride and Shame

31 July 2026 - 28 February 2027

The exhibition focuses on the artist's work from the 1970s and 1980s - presenting two of his main painting series, titled Sportsmen and Workers.

A Home Together / Спільні домівки

18 April 2026 - 30 June 2028

A family exhibition about what home is and what gives us a sense of security in a changing world. Multisensory, in Polish, English and Ukrainian. At the State Ethnographic Museum through 30 June 2028.