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.

What to expect

The museum classes this installation as a community exhibition. There are no museum collections here: it is a single collective work by the Krakow group Dziergamy Na Polu, made of squares 50 cm on a side. Its original purpose was practical - a sunshade, ideally over one of Krakow’s streets.

The installation has already been shown once. In April 2026 it was set up in a tent at the third Krakoski Yarnmark, a knitting fair the group co-organises, and visitors could rest beneath it. The makers link it to climate change: they want to draw attention to heatwaves that are increasingly dangerous to health.

The museum does not give the room, the number of squares or the overall dimensions. The curator is Jagoda Pikulska. The description on the museum’s page is written in the first person, in the group’s own voice, and says more about the group’s activities than about what you will see on site. A quarter of an hour is enough for the installation itself - an estimate, since the museum does not give its scale.

Context

The group’s name is a Krakow play on words. In Małopolska people say “na polu” (literally “in the field”) where most of Poland says “na dworze” for “outdoors”, as Wiktionary notes. “Dziergamy na polu” therefore simply means: we knit outdoors, in public places.

According to the museum’s page, the group was founded in 2023 and runs open meetups, knitting film screenings and Krakow’s celebration of World Wide Knit in Public Day. That international day was started in 2005 by Danielle Landes and, according to Wikipedia , falls on the second Saturday of June. The group runs the @dziergamynapolu Instagram account , named on the exhibition poster.

The Krakow news site LoveKraków.pl reported on the fair’s third edition at Hala Cracovii on 18 April 2026. It wrote of more than 40 exhibitors, workshops and the premiere of the installation, then called “Dziergane Niebo” (Knitted Sky). According to the site, the squares were made by knitters from all over Poland, not only from Krakow.

The model was the Spanish town of Alhaurín de la Torre near Málaga. According to the daily El Debate of 15 June 2026, the town’s crocheting women have been working on such shades since 2019. Today there are about 40 of them, and their canopy over Calle Málaga covers some 500 square metres.

Tickets and time

Free admission - that is all the exhibition page says. The museum does not say where in the palace the installation is. Nor does it say whether you can see it without a ticket to the permanent exhibition “Krakow from the Beginning, without End.” Before making a special trip, ask the branch: tel. +48 12 619 23 35, krzysztofory@muzeumkrakowa.pl .

If it turns out that the installation can only be reached with a permanent-exhibition ticket, come on a Tuesday. The permanent exhibition is free that day: tickets at bilety.muzeumkrakowa.pl or at the ticket desk on the day, while places last.

The museum gives no opening hours for the installation itself. The exhibition page has only a box headed “Wystawa stała” (permanent exhibition): Tuesday to Sunday 10:00-18:00, last entry 17:00, for groups 16:45. The palace is closed on Mondays. The closed days (1 and 11 November, 24 and 25 December) and the shorter hours on 18 and 31 December are listed on the museum’s opening hours and ticket prices page .

Worth a look if you knit or crochet: you will see what more than a hundred people made together from one simple module. If handicrafts do not interest you, do not come specially. Treat the installation as a stop on a visit to Krzysztofory, where two more exhibitions on handicrafts run until 25 October. The museum’s events calendar, checked on 13 October 2026, announces no workshops or meetings linked to this installation.

See also

• Krzysztofory Palace - the profile of the branch on the Main Market Square, home to the permanent exhibition “Krakow from the Beginning, without End.”
• Krakow Bobbin Lace - A Living Heritage - in the same palace until 25 October: another Krakow craft community, lacemakers who learn from one another at regular meetings.
• Art and Trade. Krakow of Craftsmen - a large exhibition on Krakow’s guilds from the 15th to the 20th century, at Krzysztofory until 25 October.
• Citizen Cepelia - at the Main Building of the National Museum until 21 February 2027: from kilims to posters, on the institution that furnished homes in communist Poland.

Museum profile: Krzysztofory Palace .