COLLECTION_LIST

• Tatra Epic in Paintings
  26.06.2016 19 photos
  In the mid-19th century, a new location appeared on the artistic and social map – Zakopane. Not only was it a holiday destination, but above all a fashionable resort in which, under the pretext of tuberculosis treatment, the artistic and intellectual Parnassus used to meet.
• Children's World
  01.06.2016 20 photos
  Infant, baby, toddler, child. All these terms refer to the blissful period of childhood.
• Collection - evolution
  13.05.2016 6 photos
  Evolution refers to a slow, irreversible and directional process of development leading to greater diversity, complexity and perfection. This phenomenon can be observed not only in the world of live creatures. Collections, in particular museum collections, undergo a similar process. It is because unlike private collection they are characterised by the irreversibility and unidirectionality of the movement of objects making them up.
• Zofia Stryjeńska's artistic language
  03.12.2015 5 photos
  We are presenting a selection of works by Zofia Stryjeńska from the collection of the National Museum in Krakow. The technique involving water-based paint on paper (gouache, watercolour), practised by the artist since her earliest days, was perfected by Stryjeńska in the 1920s.
• Janina Kraupe-Świderska's works
  04.03.2016 20 photos
  On 3 March 2016, Janina Kraupe-Świderska died at the age of 95. She was an outstanding painter and printmaker, co-founder of Grupa Krakowska [Krakow Group] and a lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. Take a look at the selection of her works from the collection of the National Museum in Krakow.
• Władysław Podkowiński – the harbinger of Polish Modernism
  04.02.2016 10 photos
  Władysław Podkowiński was born 150 years ago, on 4 February 1866, in Warsaw. He was 'a painter torn with cordial suffering, scorned by the critics, derided by the 'honorable' audience; an artist who walked quickly towards the eternal darkness, who shouted to the world, who wanted to capture light in his works. Outstanding talent, noble character.'
• Long live art! Feliks Jasieński's Collection
  20 photos
  The exhibition titled "Long Live Art! Feliks Jasieński's Collection". From Japan to Europe. Beautiful and Useful Objects, displayed in the Szołayski House, features a wide selection of exhibits from the priceless collection of Feliks "Manggha" Jasieński.
• Selected works by Stanisław Wyspiański
  22.01.2016 14 photos
  Stanisław Wyspiański's versatile talent places him – an artist so strongly associated with Krakow – among the greatest personalities of Polish modernism. His paintings and prints are commonly known, though he was just as passionate about typography and decorative arts. He will also remain in our collective memory as a writer of poetry and dramas. The National Museum in Krakow holds the largest collection of works by Wyspiański in Poland. We encourage everyone to explore our virtual gallery of selected works of the artist – both his most famous works, most widely reproduced and close to the heart of every Pole, and those less popular, but equally outstanding.
• Antique jewellery
  26.05.2015 12 photos
  Only several objects from Prince Władysław Czartoryski's impressive collection of ancient goldsmithery have survived until today. The collection once included bracelets, necklaces, earrings, rings and pendants made by masters of Greek, Etruscan and Roman art.
• Sejm prints
  12.01.2016 6 photos
  Once again, the Emeryk Hutten Czapski Museum presents the exhibition titled Ye Who Rule the Commonwealth. The Polish Sejm in the Old Prints from the Collection of Emeryk Hutten-Czapski – a display of Sejm prints dating back to the period from the early 16th century to the end of the 18th century.
• Digitization of our priceless collection of prints
  14.10.2015 12 photos
  The "All Saints project in the NMK" involves digitization of the priceless collection of prints featuring images of saints, depictions of the Virgin Mary and the now forgotten patrons.
• The Tatra mountains seen through the eyes of Young Poland artists
  7 photos
  The exhibition titled 'In the Rocky Podhale', presented since November in the Karol Szymanowski Museum in Zakopane, is a small presentation of several major works depicting the Tatras, preserved in the collection of the National Museum in Krakow.
• Pilgrims, Travellers, Tourists – Exploring the World
  13.08.2015 15 photos
  The exhibition titled Pilgrims, Travellers, Tourists – Exploring the World. From the NMK Collection of Old Prints and Maps presents a selection of 60 works dating back to the period from the 15th to the 19th century and devoted to travels, which we learn about through memoirs and literature related to historiography and geography. The old volumes are accompanied by 19 antique maps and atlases.
• The interiors of the Bishop Erazm Ciołek Palace
  9 photos
  After a year-long conservation break, the galleries of the Bishop Erazm Ciołek Palace – the second early-Renaissance building in Krakow after the Wawel Castle – will be open to the public again.
• An Artist on Holiday
  08.07.2015 10 photos
  From the seaside, through the mountains, to the countryside. Leaving Poland and then returning. From summer dresses to bikini. From sunburnt haystacks to dark forest verdure. Our collection offers depictions of summer in all its abundance and juiciness. Feel the holiday breeze while looking at some of them.
• Donations and acquisitions of the NMK in 2015
  25.07.2015 10 photos
  In 2015, as part of the programme "Collections – Priority 4 – Museum Collections" and thanks to the financial support from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, the National Museum in Krakow acquired new exhibits for its collection.
• Silk Thread Masterpieces
  05.05.2015 13 photos
  In China, embroidery is regarded as one of the oldest techniques of textile decoration whose tradition is over 4000 years old. From a very early age, Chinese women learned this craft from their mothers by embroidering robes and clothing accessories such as shoes, fans, all kinds of sachets, scrolls imitating paintings as well as tapestries and screens.
• Female sculptors in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
  11 photos
  This unique sculpture gallery presents works of Polish female artists active at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. Female sculptors of that period did not experience the same kind of fame which was enjoyed by their male counterparts, and even now remain overshadowed by their successors – female sculptors of the emancipation era, who could take up their regular studies at the Academy and pursue their artistic career along with men.
• French Prints
  12 photos
  The exhibition presents over 300 works by outstanding artists active in France in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in circles associated with Impressionism, Symbolism, post-Impressionism and Art Nouveau.
• Ethereal beauty
  15 photos
  Fans played a significant role in Chinese culture. Used since antiquity by both men and women, they were available in many varieties based on the function they fulfilled, their shape and the nature of their decoration. Apart from their functional qualities, fans constituted important ceremonial accessories. In the Tang Dynasty (618-907), they also became a medium for painters and calligraphers. The oldest type was a rigid fan.
• The collection of Chinese clothing from the Qing Dynasty
  13.02.2015 25 photos
  The Qing Dynasty(1644-1911) was characterised by an astounding wealth and variety of robe types. The presented garments, including clothing both for men and women as well as accessories of children's clothing, perfectly reflect this diversity.