Temporary Exhibitions in Warsaw

Piotr Marzec. Horses and Medusas

9 October 2026 - 18 October 2026 Ends soon

Lengrenówka, ul. Brzozowa 6/8a · Eryk Lipiński Museum of Caricature

Works by Piotr Marzec, author of the comics "Słodkie Chłopaki" (Sweet Boys) and "Smoła" (Tar), at Lengrenówka, the Museum of Caricature's second venue in Warsaw's Old Town. A "Good Lines" show, open on two October weekends only.

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

15 April 2026 - 18 October 2026 Ends soon

Adam Mickiewicz Museum of Literature

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.

Sculpture for the Wall Unit

14 May 2026 - 25 October 2026 Ends soon

Królikarnia, ul. Puławska 113a · National Museum in Warsaw

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

The Memory of the Uprising

30 July 2026 - 25 October 2026 Ends soon

Museum of the Tenth Pavilion of the Warsaw Citadel

Paintings and installations by Bogusław Lustyk on the Warsaw Uprising. At the Brama Bielańska Gallery in the Warsaw Citadel through 25 October 2026 (extended).

Everything Will Change

5 June 2026 - 27 October 2026 Ends soon

Aleja gen. George'a S. Pattona · State Ethnographic Museum

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.

Forgotten - Lower Silesia

2 October 2026 - 30 October 2026 Ends soon

Museum of Independence

Radek Jaworski's photographs of abandoned palaces, spas and cemeteries in Lower Silesia. At the Przebendowski Palace from 2 to 30 October 2026, opening on 2 October at 18:00.

Echoes of the Great War

30 July 2026 - 30 October 2026 Ends soon

Museum of Independence

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

Stills from the Film Lalka (The Doll)

1 September 2026 - 31 October 2026 Ends soon

Łazienki Open-Air Gallery, Aleje Ujazdowskie · Royal Łazienki Museum

An open-air show of stills from Maciej Kawalski's new screen adaptation of Prus's novel Lalka (The Doll), in the Łazienki Open-Air Gallery on Aleje Ujazdowskie. Free admission, until 31 October 2026.

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

25 June 2026 - 31 October 2026 Ends soon

Adam Mickiewicz Museum of Literature

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.

The Krzysztof Findziński Collection. A Cabinet of Memories. Asia

26 June 2026 - 31 October 2026 Ends soon

Andrzej Wawrzyniak Asia and Pacific Museum

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.

Łukasz Stokłosa. Shining

16 January 2026 - 31 October 2026 Ends soon

The Royal Castle in Warsaw

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

João Maria Gusmão. Following the White Tiger

28 August 2026 - 31 October 2026 Ends soon

Zachęta - National Gallery of Art

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.

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

19 June 2026 - 15 November 2026

Warsaw Archdiocese Museum

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.

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

4 September 2026 - 15 November 2026

Eryk Lipiński Museum of Caricature

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

Royal Łazienki Museum

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.

Mirrors. Between Illusion and Reality

Copernicus Science Centre

Dozens of mirror exhibits produced by the Swiss Technorama, complemented by works by Oskar Zięta. On view until 22 November 2026.

Forms of Light - Michał Diament: photography and glass at the Fort Institute of Photography

16 September 2026 - 29 November 2026

Fort Institute of Photography

Michał Diament (1935-1977), a Wrocław photographer and glass artist: the Fort Institute of Photography in Warsaw shows his photographs and glass objects from the artist's family archive.

Józef Czapski - L'Humanité / Humanity

19 June 2026 - 29 November 2026

Warsaw Archdiocese Museum

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.

Off the Path. Maria and Piotr's Bicycle Journeys

21 April 2026 - 29 November 2026

Maria Skłodowska-Curie Museum

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.

Carefree Exhibition: Ptasie Mleczko at the Wedel Chocolate Museum, Warsaw

4 September 2026 - 30 November 2026

E. Wedel Chocolate Factory Museum

The Carefree Exhibition at the Wedel Chocolate Museum in Warsaw: an interactive route for the 90th birthday of Ptasie Mleczko marshmallows, with a marshmallow gate and a mirror corridor. Included in the regular ticket.

The Conquest of Space: Space Race Posters - Tenth Pavilion, Warsaw Citadel

22 May 2026 - 30 November 2026

Museum of the Tenth Pavilion of the Warsaw Citadel

Posters, oil paintings and medals from the collections of the Museum of Independence on the space race and Poles' flights into space, from a 1957 poster to the poster of the Polish Ignis mission from 2025. In the Poster Gallery at the Museum of the Tenth Pavilion of the Warsaw Citadel.

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

10 April 2026 - 30 November 2026

Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute

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.

What the Ringelblum Archive Means to Us

17 September 2026 - 30 November 2026

Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute

Two display cases on the search for and conservation of the Underground Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto, on the 80th anniversary of its recovery. From 17 September to 30 November 2026.

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

3 September 2026 - 6 December 2026

Polish History Museum in Warsaw

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

Gisleni. A Roman Architect in Poland

11 September 2026 - 13 December 2026

The Royal Castle in Warsaw

On view until 13 December 2026. Nearly thirty large-format drawings by Giovanni Battista Gisleni, on loan from the Castello Sforzesco in Milan - the architect, stage designer and musician who served three Polish kings of the Vasa dynasty.

Chic and Conventions. Costumes from the Film “The Doll”

16 September 2026 - 13 December 2026

Royal Łazienki Museum

32 costumes from Maciej Kawalski's new film of “The Doll” (Lalka) in the Palace on the Isle, the Myślewicki Palace and the Old Orangery. Included in the joint ticket to the Łazienki buildings, until 13 December 2026.

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

25 October 2025 - 13 December 2026

Wilanów Palace

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.

17th Photography Cabinet: Józef Czechowicz (1818-1888) - Photographer of Vilnius

15 September 2026 - 13 December 2026

National Museum in Warsaw

Vilnius becomes the subject of a Photography Cabinet exhibition for the first time - views of the city from the 1870s captured by Józef Czechowicz, a Vilnius landscape photographer.

Adolph Menzel (1815-1905). The Tireless Observer

11 September 2026 - 13 December 2026

National Museum in Warsaw

The first monographic exhibition in Poland of Adolph Menzel, one of the most important 19th-century German artists - 45 drawings and over 200 prints from the National Museum's collection, plus a reflection on the provenance of works from pre-war German collections.

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

Museum of Cursed Soldiers and Political Prisoners

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.

Next Door to Pola Gojawiczyńska

15 April 2026 - 31 December 2026

Adam Mickiewicz Museum of Literature

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.

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

16 May 2026 - 31 December 2026

Wilanów Palace

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

National Museum in Warsaw

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.

POVERELLO. Saint Francis of Assisi - exhibition in Warsaw

2 October 2026 - 10 January 2027

Warsaw Archdiocese Museum

The "Poverello" exhibition at the Warsaw Archdiocese Museum: Saint Francis of Assisi on the 800th anniversary of his death, in paintings, sculpture and prints from the 13th to the 21st century. Matejko, Chełmoński, Malczewski, Rząsa, Wilkoń and exhibits from more than twenty collections.

Odwrażliwianie

16 October 2026 - 10 January 2027

Zachęta - National Gallery of Art

Karolina Grzywnowicz on what state power does to the senses: a scent installation about the Białowieża Forest border, camera-trap video and lullabies from Palestinian refugee camps. Free on Thursdays.

Polish Poster. The Collection - Part 3

13 October 2026 - 10 January 2027

National Museum in Warsaw

The third rotation of the permanent display at the Poster Museum in Wilanów - the world's first museum dedicated to posters. The collection numbers nearly 36,000 objects and changes every three months.

Adam Kozicki. War of Everyone Against Everyone

12 September 2026 - 10 January 2027

Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw

In his latest exhibition, Adam Kozicki explores the pulsating, nervous rhythm of the contemporary internet - a space where cultural wars constantly smolder, and fragmented information streams create emotional tensions, blurring the lines between

In the Very Bowels of Changes: Surrealism and Antifascism

26 June 2026 - 10 January 2027

Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw

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

Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw

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.

The Secret Chambers of the People's Authorities

2 October 2026 - 17 January 2027

The Royal Castle in Warsaw

Luxury apartments prepared in the Castle, then under reconstruction, for foreign guests of the communist authorities - a project never realised. 2 October 2026 to 17 January 2027.

Transformations. Old and New Photography from the Collections of the Asia and Pacific Museum

24 September 2026 - 24 January 2027

Andrzej Wawrzyniak Asia and Pacific Museum

The first presentation in the museum's history of its photographic archive of over 77,000 items: 80 photographs arranged in 40 thematic pairs.

Alina Szapocznikow / Nairy Baghramian

16 October 2026 - 31 January 2027

Zachęta - National Gallery of Art

For the centenary of Alina Szapocznikow's birth, Zachęta shows over thirty of her works from 1959-1972 alongside sculptures by Nairy Baghramian, in the Iranian-German artist's first broad presentation in Poland.

Heliograms in the Solomon Room. In Search of Light

12 September 2025 - 31 January 2027

Royal Łazienki Museum

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

Museum of Warsaw

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.

Almost Everything

10 October 2026 - 7 February 2027

Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art

A retrospective of Aneta Grzeszykowska at the Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art: works from twelve photographic series made between 2006 and 2026, videos and the sculpture Franciszka 2025. 10 October 2026 to 7 February 2027, with the opening on 9 October at 19:00.

Melusines from the Blocks. Fashion and Music in the 1980s

8 October 2026 - 21 February 2027

History Meeting House

8 October 2026 to 21 February 2027 at the History Meeting House gallery: six Polish pop stars of the 1980s, from Kora to Izabela Trojanowska, and their stage style. Curated by Karolina Sulej with the Museum of Polish Song in Opole, free admission.

The '80s Look at Us

8 October 2026 - 21 February 2027

History Meeting House

8 October 2026 to 21 February 2027 at the History Meeting House gallery: women's lives in 1980s Poland through the work of women photojournalists and artists. Prepared with the Women's Archive, free admission.

Sculpture After Stability

16 October 2026 - 28 February 2027

Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw

The exhibition presents contemporary sculptural practices that take the loss of formal stability as their starting point, treating it not as a metaphor for crisis or a harbinger of catastrophe, but as a source of creative tension.

Edward Dwurnik. Pride and Shame

31 July 2026 - 28 February 2027

Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw

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

VALIE EXPORT. Die Doppelgängerin

18 September 2026 - 16 March 2027

Central Square (Plac Centralny) · Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw

Die Doppelgängerin is a monumental sculpture in bronze, depicting twin pairs of oversized scissors.

Teamwork Is a Necessity of Our Times: Artistic and Research Unit (ZAB) Exhibition, Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts

15 October 2026 - 21 March 2027

Academy of Fine Arts Museum

Several hundred objects from the output of the Artistic and Research Unit (ZAB) of the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts - the architecture, urban planning and design of the team of Sołtan, Ihnatowicz, Tomaszewski and Hansen - at the Czapski Palace, with an installation by Marcin Chomicki in the courtyard.

Praga Interiors

17 September 2026 - 21 March 2027

The Praga Museum of Warsaw

Panelled floors, stucco, tiles and tiled stoves - the details that decide the authenticity of Praga's flats. 17 September 2026 to 21 March 2027.

Wickerwork. Craft and Design

29 May 2026 - 30 April 2027

Warsaw University of Life Sciences Museum

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

No Hands. How the Bicycle Changes Warsaw

29 May 2026 - 2 July 2027

Wola Museum

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.

Dominika Olszowy. Sand Fountain

10 September 2026 - 10 September 2027

Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw

The Sand Fountain is the latest sculpture intervention from Dominika Olszowy, commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw and addressing the rapid transformation of downtown Warsaw, including the radical changes taking place on Central Square, where MSN is located.

A Home Together / Спільні домівки

18 April 2026 - 30 June 2028

State Ethnographic Museum

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.

Warsaw Cyclists' Society at 140: Museum of Sport and Tourism exhibition

14 October 2026

Museum of Sport and Tourism

The Warsaw Cyclists' Society turns 140: the Museum of Sport and Tourism shows 19th-century saddles, carbide lamps, a Dynasy plaque and a 1920 courier's kit.

Far East at Wilanów 2026 - Wilanów Palace

1 October 2026

Wilanów Palace

Illustrations to Japanese love poetry, sumi-e works by Małgorzata Suchecka and two uchikake wedding kimonos from the Asia and Pacific Museum at Wilanów Palace.

Four Seasons - Mazovia

4 September 2026

Museum of the Polish Peasant Movement

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.

Kresowe koleje losu. Marking 80 Years Since the Expatriation

16 July 2026

Station Museum (Warsaw Railway Museum)

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.

START I - Means We Are Off! Polish Cameras

16 June 2026

National Museum of Technology in Warsaw

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.

Szucha Avenue after W-Hour: outdoor panel exhibition at the Pawiak Prison Museum

1 June 2026

The fence of the Museum of Pawiak Prison, on the al. Jana Pawła II side · Museum of Pawiak Prison

Aleja Szucha po godzinie 'W' (Szucha Avenue after W-Hour): an outdoor panel exhibition by the Mausoleum of Struggle and Martyrdom on the Warsaw Uprising around Szucha Avenue, with illustrations, photographs and documents. It hangs on the fence of the Museum of Pawiak Prison, on the al. Jana Pawła II side.

Treasures of the Middle Ages

2 March 2026

State Archaeological Museum in Warsaw

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.

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

29 January 2026

Medical History Museum of Warsaw Medical University

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

“Freedom Is Within Us”

13 December 2025

Museum of Cursed Soldiers and Political Prisoners

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

Who Are You, Maria?

16 April 2025

Maria Skłodowska-Curie Museum

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.

Fighting Solidarity

22 May 2021

Museum of Cursed Soldiers and Political Prisoners

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

The Scout Cross. An Extraordinary History

Museum of Scouting

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.

Baraniak. 145 Interrogations on Rakowiecka Street

Museum of Cursed Soldiers and Political Prisoners

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

Evidence of Crime

Museum of Cursed Soldiers and Political Prisoners

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

The Yotvingian Eldorado

State Archaeological Museum in Warsaw

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

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

Station Museum (Warsaw Railway Museum)

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.