https://muzea.waw.pl/krakow/en/The museums of Krakow and Małopolska. No fluff.Hugo 0.147.6enWed, 14 Oct 2026 21:10:48 +0000© 2026 muzea.waw.pl - Museums of Krakow and Małopolskahttps://muzea.waw.pl/krakow/en/guides/free-museums-krakow/monday/Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://muzea.waw.pl/krakow/en/guides/free-museums-krakow/monday/Free museums in Krakow on Monday: Schindler's Factory, the Old Synagogue, the Town Hall Tower and part of Wawel. Which free passes you can reserve online.guideshttps://muzea.waw.pl/krakow/en/guides/free-museums-krakow/tuesday/Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://muzea.waw.pl/krakow/en/guides/free-museums-krakow/tuesday/Free museums in Krakow on Tuesday: every open National Museum branch, Rynek Underground, Manggha and more. Which free passes are desk-only and which to book.guideshttps://muzea.waw.pl/krakow/en/guides/free-museums-krakow/wednesday/Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://muzea.waw.pl/krakow/en/guides/free-museums-krakow/wednesday/Free museums in Krakow on Wednesday: Collegium Maius, Pomorska Street, the Eagle Pharmacy, Cricoteka and the Nowa Huta shelters. Hours, passes, English.guideshttps://muzea.waw.pl/krakow/en/guides/free-museums-krakow/thursday/Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://muzea.waw.pl/krakow/en/guides/free-museums-krakow/thursday/Free museums in Krakow on Thursday: the MOCAK Collection and the Podgórze Museum's permanent exhibition, one walk apart. Plus Bochnia and Zakopane trips.guideshttps://muzea.waw.pl/krakow/en/guides/free-museums-krakow/friday/Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://muzea.waw.pl/krakow/en/guides/free-museums-krakow/friday/Free museums in Krakow on Friday: no museum has a free Friday, but the Dominican Museum and the Amber Museum never charge. Biecz is free that day too.guideshttps://muzea.waw.pl/krakow/en/guides/free-museums-krakow/saturday/Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://muzea.waw.pl/krakow/en/guides/free-museums-krakow/saturday/Free museums in Krakow on Saturday: the ING PAN Geological Museum on the last Saturday of the month, plus the museums that never charge. Hours and booking.guideshttps://muzea.waw.pl/krakow/en/guides/free-museums-krakow/sunday/Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://muzea.waw.pl/krakow/en/guides/free-museums-krakow/sunday/Free museums in Krakow on Sunday: the Home Army Museum by the main station and the Scouting Movement museum in a fort out in Swoszowice. Hours and passes.guideshttps://muzea.waw.pl/krakow/en/guides/free-museums-krakow/always-free/Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://muzea.waw.pl/krakow/en/guides/free-museums-krakow/always-free/Krakow museums that are always free: the Dominican Museum (book ahead), the Amber Museum and smaller collections. When they open and what you actually get.guideshttps://muzea.waw.pl/krakow/en/museums/krzysztofory-palace/exhibitions/under-a-knitted-sky-installation/Tue, 13 Oct 2026 22:33:22 +0200https://muzea.waw.pl/krakow/en/museums/krzysztofory-palace/exhibitions/under-a-knitted-sky-installation/More than a hundred people made crochet squares, which Krakow knitters then joined into a colourful sunshade. From 5 October 2026 to 26 February 2027 it is on show at Krzysztofory Palace, and according to the museum admission is free. Museum of Krakow on the exhibition (our translation; the museum publishes this text in Polish only): “Under a Knitted Sky” is a project made 100% by hand by women and men who knit and who take an active part in the life and running of the “Krakow knitters” group. In 2025 we started a campaign that brought together more than 100 interested people, united by one goal - to make enough 50 cm by 50 cm crochet squares to build a shade against the sun, ideally on the streets of Krakow. We wanted to show that a community like ours can together create something that serves not only our own community but society as a whole. We drew our inspiration from the Spanish town of Alhaurín de la Torre, Málaga, where knitters joined forces to make a shade against the sun, lowering the temperature in the streets by 5 degrees Celsius.exhibitionshttps://muzea.waw.pl/krakow/en/museums/mocak/exhibitions/tipping-point-yiannis-kranidiotis/Tue, 13 Oct 2026 22:31:14 +0200https://muzea.waw.pl/krakow/en/museums/mocak/exhibitions/tipping-point-yiannis-kranidiotis/In MOCAK’s audiovisual room, metronomes by the Greek artist Yiannis Kranidiotis speed up to the rhythm of climate data until, at the climax, they all fall silent at once. The installation is part of the 15th Patchlab festival and is on for just four days, from 15 to 18 October 2026. Opening: 15 October, 11:00. MOCAK on the exhibition: (our translation of the museum’s Polish text; the museum’s English website has no page for this show)exhibitionshttps://muzea.waw.pl/krakow/en/museums/manggha/exhibitions/whispers-of-rain-silence-of-snow-kawase-hasui/Tue, 13 Oct 2026 22:31:05 +0200https://muzea.waw.pl/krakow/en/museums/manggha/exhibitions/whispers-of-rain-silence-of-snow-kawase-hasui/From 29 November 2026 to 28 February 2027 the Manggha Museum’s main building will show 103 woodblock prints by Kawase Hasui, a master of the Japanese landscape in the first half of the 20th century. According to the museum, this will be the artist’s first exhibition in Poland, and every work will come from the Galerie Nouvelle collection in Kashiwa. The Manggha Museum on the exhibition (our translation; the museum publishes no English text):exhibitionshttps://muzea.waw.pl/krakow/en/museums/manggha/exhibitions/eiko-ishioka-who-am-i/Tue, 13 Oct 2026 22:31:03 +0200https://muzea.waw.pl/krakow/en/museums/manggha/exhibitions/eiko-ishioka-who-am-i/The Manggha Museum will show nearly 80 posters by Eiko Ishioka from 11 November 2026 to 17 January 2027. Ishioka was the Japanese art director who won an Oscar for the costumes in Coppola’s “Bram Stoker’s Dracula”. The exhibition will be limited to posters and covered by the museum’s ordinary ticket. The Manggha Museum on the exhibition (our translation of the museum’s Polish text; the museum has published no English page for this show):exhibitionshttps://muzea.waw.pl/krakow/en/museums/national-museum-main-building/exhibitions/citizen-cepelia/Wed, 07 Oct 2026 11:00:06 +0200https://muzea.waw.pl/krakow/en/museums/national-museum-main-building/exhibitions/citizen-cepelia/For four decades of communist Poland, Cepelia decided what “folk” looked like on a shop shelf: a kilim, a plate, a doll, a holiday souvenir. This show at the National Museum’s Main Building, which opened on 9 October 2026, looks at the institution from design through to sales. It has its own ticket and runs until 21 February 2027. National Museum in Krakow on the exhibition: The exhibition aligns with the latest research on the material culture of the Polish People’s Republic (PRL) and helps explain why Cepelia - an institution of enormous social and cultural influence - continues to provoke mixed emotions even among museum professionals and specialists. It is a story about ideas, ambitions, aesthetics, and tensions that shaped Polish interiors in the second half of the 20th century and left a lasting mark on collective memory.exhibitionshttps://muzea.waw.pl/krakow/en/museums/nowa-huta-museum/exhibitions/nowa-huta-dimitrovgrad/Wed, 07 Oct 2026 10:59:39 +0200https://muzea.waw.pl/krakow/en/museums/nowa-huta-museum/exhibitions/nowa-huta-dimitrovgrad/Two towns planned from scratch for heavy industry now stand side by side on the pedestrian stretch of Aleja Róż. The Nowa Huta Museum, whose own building is under renovation, has taken this exhibition out into the street and made it together with the history museum of Dimitrovgrad in Bulgaria. Nowa Huta Museum on the exhibition (our translation of the Polish original; the museum publishes no English text for this show):exhibitionshttps://muzea.waw.pl/krakow/en/museums/czapski-museum/exhibitions/revolution-progress-imperialism-nineteenth-century-paper-money/Wed, 07 Oct 2026 10:59:09 +0200https://muzea.waw.pl/krakow/en/museums/czapski-museum/exhibitions/revolution-progress-imperialism-nineteenth-century-paper-money/From the assignats of revolutionary France and the treasury notes of the Kościuszko Uprising to shares, scrip that stood in for small change, and lottery tickets: the National Museum’s Numismatic Cabinet will show how paper entered everyday circulation in the 19th century. The exhibition at the museum’s Czapski branch, Piłsudskiego 12, opens on 23 October 2026 and runs until 11 April 2027. National Museum in Krakow on the exhibition (the museum’s own English text):exhibitionshttps://muzea.waw.pl/krakow/en/museums/wawel/exhibitions/anna-jagiellon-all-the-faces-of-the-queen/Wed, 07 Oct 2026 10:59:05 +0200https://muzea.waw.pl/krakow/en/museums/wawel/exhibitions/anna-jagiellon-all-the-faces-of-the-queen/From 23 October Wawel Royal Castle will show Anna Jagiellon through her own decisions, letters and foundations, not only as the daughter, sister and wife of kings. Six rooms on the first floor will bring together every known historical portrait of her. The ticket costs 5 PLN, or nothing extra if you hold the “Castle First Floor” ticket. Wawel Royal Castle on the exhibition (our translation; the castle publishes no English text):exhibitionshttps://muzea.waw.pl/krakow/en/museums/mocak/exhibitions/fort-sztuki-3026/Wed, 07 Oct 2026 10:58:57 +0200https://muzea.waw.pl/krakow/en/museums/mocak/exhibitions/fort-sztuki-3026/From 1993 Fort Sztuki (Art Fort) organised art festivals, performance above all, in Kraków and abroad; after a 20-year break its archive, films and performances return to Kraków for two weeks, this time hosted by MOCAK. The programme will open on 16 October 2026 at 18:00, and according to the museum’s page the exhibition in Galeria Beta will run from 18 to 31 October. MOCAK on the exhibition: (our translation of the museum’s Polish text; the museum’s English website has no page for this show)exhibitionshttps://muzea.waw.pl/krakow/en/museums/krzysztofory-palace/exhibitions/what-health-and-mental-wellbeing-mean-to-you/Wed, 07 Oct 2026 10:58:32 +0200https://muzea.waw.pl/krakow/en/museums/krzysztofory-palace/exhibitions/what-health-and-mental-wellbeing-mean-to-you/From 1 to 29 October 2026, under the arcades of Krzysztofory Palace, psychology students and people who have lived through a mental health crisis answer the exhibition’s title question with photographs. No photograph carries a surname, only the author’s first name. Museum of Krakow on the exhibition (attributed translation, ours; the museum publishes no English text): We invite you to our latest exhibition Under the Arcades of Krzysztofory Palace. We invite you to an exceptional photography exhibition, the outcome of a project carried out with the Photovoice technique - a method which, through photographs and comments, “gives a voice” to people who are often deprived of one, raising the discussion of socially important issues, mental health in particular.exhibitionshttps://muzea.waw.pl/krakow/en/museums/museum-of-engineering-and-technology/exhibitions/the-kitchen-from-the-inside/Sun, 04 Oct 2026 10:01:38 +0200https://muzea.waw.pl/krakow/en/museums/museum-of-engineering-and-technology/exhibitions/the-kitchen-from-the-inside/In its old tram depot in Kazimierz, the Museum of Engineering and Technology shows how the Polish kitchen changed over the 20th century. The story runs from the coal range and the ice box to the Bartek food processor and the first Polish dishwashers. It is open Tuesday to Sunday, 10:00-18:00, until 31 December 2027. The Museum of Engineering and Technology on the exhibition (the museum’s own English text): Banana Yoshimoto wrote: The place I like best in this world is the kitchen. At the Museum of Engineering and Technology in Kraków, we share this passion. This is why we would like to invite you to an exhibition devoted to the heart of every home.exhibitionshttps://muzea.waw.pl/krakow/en/museums/galicia-jewish-museum/exhibitions/unimaginable-the-void-after-the-great-synagogues/Sun, 04 Oct 2026 10:01:25 +0200https://muzea.waw.pl/krakow/en/museums/galicia-jewish-museum/exhibitions/unimaginable-the-void-after-the-great-synagogues/The Great Synagogue of Warsaw, the New Synagogue of Breslau (today Wrocław), the New Synagogue of Tarnów: these buildings now survive only as engravings, photographs and plans. The Galicia Jewish Museum has gathered them from 13 Polish cities. The exhibition page gives 31 August 2026 as the closing date, yet the museum is still running tours of it in October, so check that it is open before you go. Galicia Jewish Museum on the exhibition (the museum’s own English text):exhibitionshttps://muzea.waw.pl/krakow/en/museums/house-of-illusions-krakow/Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://muzea.waw.pl/krakow/en/museums/house-of-illusions-krakow/House of Illusions Krakow on Floriańska Street: three floors of optical illusions, a glass maze and geckos. How it compares with Krakil, time needed, access.museumshttps://muzea.waw.pl/krakow/en/museums/wheels-and-heels-museum-krakow/Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://muzea.waw.pl/krakow/en/museums/wheels-and-heels-museum-krakow/Barbie museum in Krakow's Kazimierz: nearly 1,000 dolls and over 9,000 toy cars on Kupa Street. Who it suits, how long to allow, family tickets, getting there.museumshttps://muzea.waw.pl/krakow/en/museums/archaeological-museum-branice/exhibitions/archaeological-wanderings-from-zeslawice-to-clo/Wed, 23 Sep 2026 20:52:17 +0200https://muzea.waw.pl/krakow/en/museums/archaeological-museum-branice/exhibitions/archaeological-wanderings-from-zeslawice-to-clo/Nowa Huta is known as the socialist model town built around a steelworks in the 1950s, but the ground under it was settled thousands of years earlier. “Archaeological Wanderings: From Zesławice to Cło” is a temporary exhibition at the Branice branch of the Archaeological Museum in Kraków that tours those ancient settlements one village at a time. It opened on 1 May 2026 and the museum has announced no closing date.exhibitionshttps://muzea.waw.pl/krakow/en/museums/collegium-maius/exhibitions/born-of-passion-calculating-machines/Wed, 23 Sep 2026 20:52:15 +0200https://muzea.waw.pl/krakow/en/museums/collegium-maius/exhibitions/born-of-passion-calculating-machines/Before the pocket calculator there were arithmometers, abacuses and slide rules, and Walter Szrek collected so many that the Jagiellonian University counts his gift among the largest collections of its kind in the world. Collegium Maius has shown a selection since 13 June 2025. No closing date has been announced, and the only way in is a guided tour on weekdays at 12:00. Jagiellonian University Museum Collegium Maius on the exhibition (the museum’s own English text):exhibitionshttps://muzea.waw.pl/krakow/en/museums/hipolit-house/exhibitions/open-house-the-imagined-object/Wed, 23 Sep 2026 20:49:51 +0200https://muzea.waw.pl/krakow/en/museums/hipolit-house/exhibitions/open-house-the-imagined-object/Hipolit House on Mariacki Square, a Museum of Krakow branch whose period-home display has been shut since 2023, has opened its doors for three and a half weeks. From 7 to 30 October 2026, artists, students and graduates of the Intermedia Faculty at Krakow’s Academy of Fine Arts are showing work built around old everyday objects from the house’s collection. Museum of Krakow on the exhibition (our translation of the Polish original; the museum publishes no English text for this show):exhibitionshttps://muzea.waw.pl/krakow/en/museums/cricoteka/exhibitions/i-was-tadeusz-kantors-assistant-andrzej-wajda/Wed, 23 Sep 2026 20:49:40 +0200https://muzea.waw.pl/krakow/en/museums/cricoteka/exhibitions/i-was-tadeusz-kantors-assistant-andrzej-wajda/In 1976 Andrzej Wajda, the director of “Ashes and Diamonds” and “Man of Marble”, took a break from shooting the latter to film Tadeusz Kantor’s theatre piece “The Dead Class” (“Umarła klasa”). He later wrote that for one day he became Kantor’s assistant. From 6 October 2026 to 10 January 2027 Cricoteka, the Kantor museum on the Vistula in Podgórze, shows the paperwork behind that film in its Galeria Szatnia, on a separate 10 PLN ticket.exhibitionshttps://muzea.waw.pl/krakow/en/museums/archaeological-museum/exhibitions/ossowski-legacy-vistula-pomerania/Wed, 23 Sep 2026 20:49:21 +0200https://muzea.waw.pl/krakow/en/museums/archaeological-museum/exhibitions/ossowski-legacy-vistula-pomerania/From 8 July to 8 October 2026 the Archaeological Museum of Krakow showed a small panel exhibition at ul. Senacka 3 on the archaeologist Gotfryd Ossowski and his fieldwork in Vistula Pomerania. Archaeological Museum of Krakow on the exhibition (our translation of the museum’s Polish text; the museum published no English description of this show): We invite you to an exhibition devoted to Gotfryd Ossowski - one of the pioneers of Polish archaeology. The year 2025 marked 150 years since he began his research in Pomerania, which permanently changed the way we see the past of this region.exhibitionshttps://muzea.waw.pl/krakow/en/museums/mufo/exhibitions/zofia-kulik-instead-of-sculpture-footnotes/Wed, 23 Sep 2026 20:49:16 +0200https://muzea.waw.pl/krakow/en/museums/mufo/exhibitions/zofia-kulik-instead-of-sculpture-footnotes/In 1971 Zofia Kulik graduated in sculpture from the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts with a work built around a projection of some five hundred slides. Krakow’s Museum of Photography shows it from 3 October to 20 December 2026 on level -1 of its Rakowicka Street building, together with “Footnotes”, the Open Working Group’s response to it. Entry costs 5 PLN. The Museum of Photography in Krakow on the exhibition (our translation of the museum’s Polish text):exhibitionshttps://muzea.waw.pl/krakow/en/museums/galicia-jewish-museum/exhibitions/intersections-papercuts-by-anna-wencel/Wed, 23 Sep 2026 20:49:06 +0200https://muzea.waw.pl/krakow/en/museums/galicia-jewish-museum/exhibitions/intersections-papercuts-by-anna-wencel/Anna Wencel has taught Jewish history and culture at the Galicia Jewish Museum since 2008. This show is the other side of her work: dozens of paper cutouts in which Jewish motifs run into Polish and Ukrainian folk traditions. One room on ul. Dajwór in Kazimierz, Krakow’s old Jewish quarter, until 31 December 2026. Galicia Jewish Museum on the exhibition (the museum’s own English text): What can be depicted by a papercut? Symbols, ornaments, and floral motifs are the most popular types of patterns. But can a papercut say something about more complex issues? About presence and absence, heritage and history, tradition and memory? Anna Wencel, the author of the works presented in a new temporary exhibition at the Galicia Jewish Museum, attempts to answer this question.exhibitionshttps://muzea.waw.pl/krakow/en/museums/manggha/exhibitions/tokyo-story/Wed, 23 Sep 2026 09:47:30 +0200https://muzea.waw.pl/krakow/en/museums/manggha/exhibitions/tokyo-story/In 2017 the Krakow painter Dariusz Vasina, one half of the duo Studio 2, photographed a mural in Tokyo that looked as if he had painted it himself. He had not. “Tokyo Story” is the record of the years he and Beata Kotnowska spent looking for its author, shown in the Manggha Museum’s Europe - Far East Gallery until 25 October 2026. Expect photographs, drawings, 3D prints, installations and films, all on the museum’s standard ticket.exhibitions