Temporary Exhibitions in Warsaw

Polish History Museum in Warsaw

DreamWear by Urszula Pieregończuk at the Royal Castle in Warsaw: a garment covered with cartoon characters set beside a 17th-century portrait of Ossoliński with his sons, in the "Key in the Castle" series.

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.

Gisleni. A Roman Architect in Poland

11 September 2026 - 13 December 2026

Adam Mickiewicz Museum of Literature

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.

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

25 June 2026 - 13 December 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.

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

15 September 2026 - 13 December 2026

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

Central History Stop (Centralny Przystanek Historia IPN)

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.

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

25 October 2025 - 20 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.

Testimony of HELP exhibition room under ultraviolet light: framed photographs on the walls and VR headsets on chairs

Testimony of HELP - the Ulma family VR exhibition at the Central History Stop, Warsaw

6 October 2026 - 21 December 2026

"Testimony of HELP" (Świadectwo poMOCY): an exhibition by the IPN's New Technology Division about the Ulma family of Markowa and the Jews they hid - a short film watched in VR headsets and photographs revealed under ultraviolet light, at the IPN Central History Stop, Marszałkowska 107, Warsaw.

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

Adam Mickiewicz Museum of Literature

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

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

Warsaw Archdiocese Museum

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

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

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

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

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 the Tenth Pavilion of the Warsaw Citadel

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.

Henryk Guterman (1913-1938): A Talent Killed - Tenth Pavilion, Warsaw Citadel

30 October 2026 - 17 January 2027

Henryk Guterman (1913-1938): A Talent Killed - an exhibition of works by a painter born in Częstochowa who was killed in Spain as a soldier of the Jarosław Dąbrowski Brigade. According to the Museum of Independence, it is the artist's first solo exhibition; at the Museum of the Tenth Pavilion of the Warsaw Citadel.

The Secret Chambers of the People's Authorities

2 October 2026 - 17 January 2027

Andrzej Wawrzyniak Asia and Pacific Museum

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

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.

Can Red Be Trusted

24 October 2026 - 28 February 2027

Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art

New work by Róża Litwa at the Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art: paintings, spatial works and animations about trust, with a title that points to Anne Carson's Autobiography of Red. 24 October 2026 to 28 February 2027, with the opening on 23 October at 19:00.

HAEM

24 October 2026 - 28 February 2027

Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art

Anna Baumgart at the Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art: from early videos and sculptures to new installations made for the Castle, with the female body at the centre. 24 October 2026 to 28 February 2027, with the opening on 23 October at 19:00.

Sculpture After Stability

16 October 2026 - 28 February 2027

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

Academy of Fine Arts Museum

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

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

State Ethnographic Museum

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

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.

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

Maria Skłodowska-Curie Museum

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

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

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

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

State Archaeological Museum in Warsaw

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

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.

Upcoming (3)

Bestiary

20 November 2026 - 14 March 2027

Andrzej Wawrzyniak Asia and Pacific Museum

A large, multi-threaded exhibition on how humans have understood, classified, and domesticated animals across the centuries - from creation myths, through scientific cabinets of curiosities, to today's questions about species extinction.

Boundaries of Colour. Ikat Textiles of Asia

27 November 2026 - 30 April 2027

27 November 2026 to 30 April 2027 at the Asia and Pacific Museum in Warsaw: close to 150 ikat textiles from Indonesia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, Japan and Central Asia, with a working loom and a closing section on ikat in fashion.

18th Photography Cabinet: Konrad Brandel. Visionary and Documentarian

16 December 2026 - 21 March 2027

Andrzej Wawrzyniak Asia and Pacific Museum

Konrad Brandel, father of Polish photojournalism - creator of the world's oldest photographs taken during free balloon flight (Warsaw, 1865) and inventor of a portable 'photo-revolver' camera for candid street shots.

Recently ended

Far East at Wilanów 2026 - Wilanów Palace

1 October 2026 - 31 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.

Stills from the Film Lalka (The Doll)

1 September 2026 - 31 October 2026

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

Exhibition closed on 31 October 2026. Stills from the new film of Lalka (The Doll). The film's costumes are on show at Łazienki until 13 December.

The Krzysztof Findziński Collection. A Cabinet of Memories. Asia

26 June 2026 - 31 October 2026

Exhibition closed on 31 October 2026. Krzysztof Findziński's gift of objects from Asia. On now at the museum: the photography show Transformations.

Łukasz Stokłosa. Shining

16 January 2026 - 31 October 2026