https://muzea.waw.pl/en/museums/muzeum-narodowe/exhibitions/Temporary exhibitions at the National Museum in Warsaw and its branches (Królikarnia, Poster Museum in Wilanów) - current and upcoming shows, with dates and summaries.Hugo 0.147.6enMon, 17 Aug 2026 14:11:43 +0000© 2026 muzea.waw.pl - Every museum in Warsawhttps://muzea.waw.pl/en/museums/muzeum-narodowe/exhibitions/gabinet-fotografii-xvi-fotografia-dziela-sztuki/Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:15:52 +0200https://muzea.waw.pl/en/museums/muzeum-narodowe/exhibitions/gabinet-fotografii-xvi-fotografia-dziela-sztuki/The Photography Cabinet rotates its display every three months because the prints are light-sensitive. This rotation looks at how, from the 19th century onward, photography reproduced paintings, sculptures, and prints - and how it democratized access to art. National Museum on the exhibition: Reproducing works of art has been an important field of photography since the very beginning of the medium’s history. None of the graphic techniques used in the 19th century could deliver copies as faithful as photography. This unprecedented fidelity of the photographic image to the original meant the new technique was quickly accepted as a tool for recording and duplicating paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, and works of artistic craft. The 19th-century art market and the photographic reproduction “industry” influenced one another, to the benefit of both. The invention revolutionized art publishing and, as a consequence, the promotion and distribution of art. As a mass medium, photography democratized access to art and also became an important research tool for professionals - collectors, scholars, and critics. In turn, the pursuit of ever more faithful reproductions spurred experimenters and drove the technical development of photography.museumshttps://muzea.waw.pl/en/museums/muzeum-narodowe/exhibitions/kolekcjoner-ignacy-korwin-milewski/Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:15:52 +0200https://muzea.waw.pl/en/museums/muzeum-narodowe/exhibitions/kolekcjoner-ignacy-korwin-milewski/Matejko’s Stańczyk, Chełmoński’s Indian Summer, Aleksander Gierymski’s Jewess with Oranges - masterpieces of Polish painting once belonged to a single collector. The exhibition reconstructs the collection of Count Ignacy Korwin-Milewski, an eccentric collector and patron whose holdings once numbered around 250 paintings before being scattered. National Museum on the exhibition: Matejko’s Stańczyk, Chełmoński’s Indian Summer, the Festival of Trumpets, or Aleksander Gierymski’s Jewess with Oranges - hard as it is to believe, these masterpieces of Polish painting once belonged to a single person. That person was Count Ignacy Korwin-Milewski - an unfulfilled artist, an eccentric, and above all a great collector and distinguished patron of Polish art.museumshttps://muzea.waw.pl/en/museums/muzeum-narodowe/exhibitions/plakat-polski-kolekcja-odslona-2/Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:15:52 +0200https://muzea.waw.pl/en/museums/muzeum-narodowe/exhibitions/plakat-polski-kolekcja-odslona-2/The Poster Museum in Wilanów - the world’s first museum dedicated to posters - has reopened after a thorough renovation. The second rotation of its permanent display presents a collection of nearly 36,000 objects, from Young Poland-era posters to contemporary graphic design. National Museum on the exhibition: The Poster Museum in Wilanów is back! From Young Poland-era posters to contemporary graphic design projects - the Polish poster collection numbers nearly 36,000 objects. For the first time in the history of the world’s first poster museum, they will be presented as part of a permanent exhibition.museumshttps://muzea.waw.pl/en/museums/muzeum-narodowe/exhibitions/rzezba-na-mebloscianke/Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:15:52 +0200https://muzea.waw.pl/en/museums/muzeum-narodowe/exhibitions/rzezba-na-mebloscianke/Ceramic penguins, monkeys, strongmen, and pin-ups decorated the “meblościanka” - the built-in wall-unit shelving found in nearly every Polish apartment under communism. This show at Królikarnia presents the original prototypes behind those now-collectible figurines. National Museum on the exhibition: Ceramic penguins, monkeys, strongmen, and pin-ups decorated wall-unit shelving in Polish apartments for nearly the entire communist period. These distinctive porcelain “chamber sculptures” caused a sensation abroad and still delight design enthusiasts today. They were designed in the mid-1950s at the Institute of Industrial Design in Warsaw by a team that included Henryk Jędrasiak, Mieczysław Naruszewicz, Hanna Orthwein, and Lubomir Tomaszewski.museumshttps://muzea.waw.pl/en/museums/muzeum-narodowe/exhibitions/olga-boznanska-pokaz-w-galerii-xix-wieku/Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:15:52 +0200https://muzea.waw.pl/en/museums/muzeum-narodowe/exhibitions/olga-boznanska-pokaz-w-galerii-xix-wieku/An extended display of nearly thirty works by Olga Boznańska in the permanent Gallery of 19th-Century Art, marking the 160th anniversary of the birth and 85th anniversary of the death of one of the leading Polish painters of the turn of the 20th century. National Museum on the exhibition: This year marks the 160th anniversary of the birth and the 85th anniversary of the death of Olga Boznańska (1865-1940) - we decided to mark both anniversaries with a display of nearly thirty of the painter’s works from the collection of the National Museum in Warsaw.museumshttps://muzea.waw.pl/en/museums/muzeum-narodowe/exhibitions/adolph-menzel-niestrudzony-obserwator/Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:15:52 +0200https://muzea.waw.pl/en/museums/muzeum-narodowe/exhibitions/adolph-menzel-niestrudzony-obserwator/The first monographic exhibition in Poland devoted to Adolph Menzel, one of the most important 19th-century German artists - and an occasion to reckon with provenance: part of the museum’s Menzel drawings and prints come from pre-war German collections that became Polish property after the border changes of 1945. National Museum on the exhibition: Adolph Menzel is regarded as one of the most important German artists. His long life spanned almost the entire 19th century, and with it the shifting currents and movements in art. In Menzel’s painting, printmaking, and drawing we find references to - to use the traditional terms - Biedermeier, Romanticism, Realism, Historicism, and Impressionism.museumshttps://muzea.waw.pl/en/museums/muzeum-narodowe/exhibitions/gabinet-fotografii-xvii-jozef-czechowicz/Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:15:52 +0200https://muzea.waw.pl/en/museums/muzeum-narodowe/exhibitions/gabinet-fotografii-xvii-jozef-czechowicz/Vilnius, in Lithuania today, becomes the subject of a Photography Cabinet show for the first time - Baroque architecture, green hills, and the Vilnia River as captured by Józef Czechowicz, the city’s first dedicated landscape photographer. National Museum on the exhibition: Vilnius will be the subject of a Photography Cabinet exhibition for the first time. We’ll look at views of the city from the 1870s, recorded through the attentive eye of Józef Czechowicz’s camera. The first landscape photographer of Vilnius, as Jan Bułhak called him, masterfully captured its Baroque architecture, its hills lush with greenery, and the picturesque Vilnia River. We’ll also trace the photographer’s little-known biography, whose creative path led from Kyiv through Vitebsk to Vilnius.museumshttps://muzea.waw.pl/en/museums/muzeum-narodowe/exhibitions/bestiariusz/Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:15:52 +0200https://muzea.waw.pl/en/museums/muzeum-narodowe/exhibitions/bestiariusz/A large, multi-threaded exhibition on humanity’s relationship with animals across the centuries - from creation myths and fantastical hybrids, through scientific cabinets of curiosities, to today’s questions about species extinction and animal rights. National Museum on the exhibition: The exhibition aims to show how, across the centuries, people have tried to understand, classify, domesticate, make use of, and build relationships with animals. These themes find rich and multi-layered expression in the art and culture of many civilizations.museumshttps://muzea.waw.pl/en/museums/muzeum-narodowe/exhibitions/gabinet-fotografii-xviii-konrad-brandel/Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:15:52 +0200https://muzea.waw.pl/en/museums/muzeum-narodowe/exhibitions/gabinet-fotografii-xviii-konrad-brandel/Konrad Brandel - creator of the world’s oldest photographs taken during free balloon flight, shot above Warsaw in the summer of 1865 - and inventor of a portable “photo-revolver” camera that let him capture unposed street scenes. Often called the father of Polish photojournalism. National Museum on the exhibition: Konrad Brandel was an exceptionally active and creative figure among Polish professional photographers of the second half of the 19th and early 20th century. He threw himself into the new field of imaging with real passion and found brilliant ways to harness the power of the modern medium. The exhibition shows the world’s oldest photographs taken during free balloon flight. Captured from a previously inaccessible vantage point, these light-sensitive images show views of Warsaw recorded by Brandel in the summer of 1865. Soon after this spectacular event, the photographer staged a self-portrait with his camera in the balloon’s gondola - a work he later reused in advertising photomontages for his studio.museums