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National Museum in Krakow
al. 3 Maja 1
30-062 Kraków

NIP: 675-000-44-42
REGON: 000275961
switchboard: +48 12 433 5500
Fax: +48 12 433 55 55
e-mail: dyrekcja@mnk.pl
Branches
- MNK The Main Building
  
  al. 3 Maja 1
  
  switchboard:+48 12 433 55 00
  ticket office: +48 12 433 56 37
  
  E-mail: dyrekcja@mnk.pl
- MNK The Sukiennice
  
  Rynek Główny 3
  
  switchboard:+48 12 433 54 00
  ticket office: +48 12 433 54 03
  
  E-mail: sukiennice@mnk.pl
- MNK Czartoryski Museum
  
  ul. Pijarska 15, 31-015 Kraków
  
  switchboard:+48 12 370 54 66
  ticket office:
  
  E-mail: muz-czart@mnk.pl
- MNK The Czartoryski Library
  
  ul. św. Marka 17, 31-018 Kraków
  
  switchboard:+48 012 370 54 20
  ticket office:
  
  E-mail: bczart@mnk.pl
- MNK The Arsenal
  
  switchboard:+48 12 370 54 66
  ticket office:
  
  E-mail:
- MNK The Czapski
  
  ul. Piłsudskiego 12, 31-109 Kraków
  
  switchboard:+48 12 433 58 40
  ticket office: +48 12 433 58 43
  
  E-mail:
- MNK The Matejko
  
  ul. Floriańska 41, 31-019 Kraków
  
  switchboard:+48 12 433 59 63
  ticket office: +48 12 433 59 63
  
  E-mail: dommatejki@mnk.pl
- MNK The Szołayski
  
  pl. Szczepański 9, 31-011 Kraków
  
  switchboard:+48 12 433 54 50
  ticket office: +48 12 433 54 72
  
  E-mail: szolayscy@mnk.pl
- MNK The Szymanowski
  
  ul. Kasprusie 19, 34-500 Zakopane
  
  switchboard:+ 48 18 202 00 40
  ticket office: + 48 18 202 00 40
  
  E-mail: atma@mnk.pl
- MNK The Mehoffer
  
  ul. Krupnicza 26, 31-123 Kraków
  
  switchboard:+48 12 433 58 80
  ticket office: +48 12 433 58 89
  
  E-mail: dommehoffera@mnk.pl
- MNK The Ciołek
  
  ul. Kanonicza 17, 31-002 Kraków
  
  switchboard:+48 12 433 59 20
  ticket office: +48 12 433 59 23
  
  E-mail: pbec@mnk.pl
- MNK The Wyspiański
  
  pl. Sikorskiego 6, 31-115 Kraków
  
  switchboard:+48 12 433 57 64
  ticket office: +48 12 433 57 64
  
  E-mail: europeum@mnk.pl
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Management

The p.p. Director of the National Museum in Krakow

Prof. dr hab. Andrzej Szczerski

Assistant: Małgorzata Zimna
mzimna@mnk.pl
+48 12 433 56 20

Deputy Director for Scientific Activities

dr Magdalena Ludera
mludera@mnk.pl
+48 12 433 55 51

Deputy Director for for Exhibition Activities

Aleksandra Kłaput
aklaput@mnk.pl
+48 12 433 55 65

Deputy Director for Strategy and Communications

Tomasz Ostrowski

Assistant: Dorota Różycka
drozycka@mnk.pl
+48 12 433 56 08

Deputy director for the Management

Wiesław Sawa
wsawa@mnk.pl
+48 12 433 56 11

Chief Accountant

Katarzyna Bednarska
kbednarska@mnk.pl
12 433 55 19

Chief Cataloguer of the National Museum in Krakow

Aneta Krzyszkowska-Pyrcz
apyrcz@mnk.pl
+48 12 433 55 35

More contacts
Press office

Izabela Rak

Press spokeswoman

Phone +48 12 433 57 25 , mobile phone +48 695981817

irak@mnk.pl

Aleksandra Suchońska

PR Intern

mobile phone +48 696 083 218

asuchonska@mnk.pl

Temporary exhibitions

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Show department

Princes Czartoryski Museum. Monastery

In June 2023, an exhibition will be held to open the last wing of the Princes Czartoryski Museum. The exhibition, held in the Klasztorek building, will showcase items that are beyond the contemporary canons of the museum arts as well as what has survived up to our Times, in contrast to other European museums of this type, giving the Czartoryski collection an absolutely unique character.
MNK Czartoryski Museum
ul. Pijarska 15, 31-015 Kraków view on map Monday - CLOSED
Tuesday - Sunday - 10.00-18.00 Check the ticket prices
XX + XXI. POLISH ART GALLERY - Sculpture

The XX + XXI. Polish Art Gallery will be expanding in June with a new space dedicated to sculpture of the mid-20th century onwards. This space will be the last on the visitors’ route through the gallery, and will be a complement to the 20th century sculpture gallery located in in the hall on the second floor, and thus will blend the multifaceted history of modern Polish sculpture into a single whole.
MNK The Main Building
al. 3 Maja 1 view on map Monday - closed
Tuesday - Sunday - 10.00-18.00 Check the ticket prices
The Origins. Ancient art gallery

The aim of the permanent exhibition of ancient art from the collections of the National Museum in Kraków, located on the 1st floor in the Arsenal of the Princes Czartoryski Museum, is to show a full picture of the art of ancient cultures. The core of the exhibition is a collection acquired by Prince Władysław Czartoryski in the second half of the 19th century.

view on map Monday - closed
Tuesday - 10.00-18.00
Wednesday - Thursday - 10.00-18.00
Friday - Saturday - 10.00-19.00
Sunday - 10.00-18.00 Check the ticket prices
XX + XXI. Polish Art Gallery

XX + XXI. Polish Art Gallery in the Main Building of the National Museum in Kraków gives visitors an opportunity to learn about the panorama of the history of Polish art of this period. The exhibition presents a cross-section of selected phenomena, trends and art movements through outstanding works from the Museum’s collection of contemporary art.
MNK The Main Building
al. 3 Maja 1 view on map Monday - closed
Tuesday - Sunday - 10.00-18.00 Check the ticket prices
Objects. Gallery of Polish Design of the 20th and 21st Centuries

From graphic design through fashion and furniture to computer games – the most interesting examples of Polish design of the last 120 years are presented at the permanent exhibition Objects. Gallery of Polish Design of the 20th and 21th Centuries.
MNK The Szołayski
pl. Szczepański 9, 31-011 Kraków view on map Monday - closed
Tuesday - 10.00-18.00
Wednesday - Sunday - 10.00-16.00 Check the ticket prices
Sections. Gallery of Polish architecture of the 20th and 21st centuries

Architecture is an important part of our everyday life, shaping public space, the context of a place, even influencing the environment. It became the theme of the permanent exhibition ‘Sections. Gallery of Polish architecture of the 20th and 21st centuries’.
MNK The Szołayski
pl. Szczepański 9, 31-011 Kraków view on map Monday - closed
Tuesday - 10.00-18.00
Wednesday - Sunday - 10.00-16.00 Check the ticket prices
The Princes Czartoryski Museum - Palace

The permanent exhibition at the Palace of the Princes Czartoryski Museum displays the most valuable art collection in Poland, and one of the most valuable ones in Europe. The exhibition not only includes masterpieces of world painting such as Leonardo da Vinci's Lady with an Ermine or Rembrandt van Rijn's Landscape with the Good Samaritan, but also works of painting, sculpture, crafts, military or applied arts. It is also an immense collection of souvenirs presenting Poland's history.
MNK Czartoryski Museum
ul. Pijarska 15, 31-015 Kraków view on map Monday - CLOSED
Tuesday - Sunday - 10.00-18.00 Check the ticket prices
Gallery of Decorative Art

The Gallery of Decorative Art at the National Museum in Krakow is the largest permanent exhibition of this type in Poland. The displayed objects are arranged in a chronological order from the Early Middle Ages to the Art Nouveau period. The exhibition, with its stylishly arranged interiors and its collection of gold, fabrics, clothing, furniture, ceramics and glassware, complete with a unique collection of musical instruments and judaica, features nearly 4,000 exhibits presented in nine exhibition rooms and two annexes.
MNK The Main Building
al. 3 Maja 1 view on map Monday - closed
Tuesday - Sunday - 10.00-18.00 Check the ticket prices
The Gallery of 19th-Century Polish Art in the Sukiennice

The Sukiennice building houses one of the largest permanent exhibitions of 19th-century Polish painting and sculpture in Poland.
MNK The Sukiennice
Rynek Główny 3 view on map mon - closed
Tuesday - sunday - 9:00-18:00 Check the ticket prices
Biographical Museum of Jan Matejko

The permanent exhibition is housed in the family home of Jan Matejko (1838-1893), the greatest Polish artist working in the genre of history painting, a collector and an enthusiast for monuments, particularly those in Krakow. The old Krakow building (rebuilt in the 18th and 19th centuries) is the place where Jan Matejko was born, lived with his family, created his paintings and passed away.
MNK The Matejko
ul. Floriańska 41, 31-019 Kraków view on map Monday - closed
tuesday - 10:00-18:00
Wednesday - Sunday - 10.00-16.00 Check the ticket prices
Biographical museum of Józef Mehoffer

The house is not only a biographical museum, it is also a museum of interiors and to a certain extent an art museum.
MNK The Mehoffer
ul. Krupnicza 26, 31-123 Kraków view on map Monday - closed
tue - 10.00-18.00
wednesday-sunday - 10.00-16.00 Check the ticket prices
Józef Czapski's Biographical Museum

The permanent exhibition in the Józef Czapski Pavilion, whose layout was designed by Krystyna Zachwatowicz and her husband Andrzej Wajda, occupies the second floor.
MNK The Czapski
ul. Piłsudskiego 12, 31-109 Kraków view on map Monday - closed
tue - 10.00-18.00
wednesday-sunday - 10.00-16.00 Check the ticket prices
Karol Szymanowski biographical museum

Before the opening of the Karol Szymanowski Museum in Villa 'Atma' in Zakopane in 1976, the National Museum in Krakow held an exhibition with musical elements, which presented the life and art of the renowned composer who lived in 'Atma' from 1930 to 1935.
MNK The Szymanowski
ul. Kasprusie 19, 34-500 Zakopane view on map Monday - closed
Tuesday - Sunday - 10.00-17.00 Check the ticket prices
Art of Old Poland. The 12th – 18th century

The exhibition presents excellent works of the medieval and more modern art from the collections of the National Museum in Krakow, one of the oldest and best sets of old Polish art.
MNK The Ciołek
ul. Kanonicza 17, 31-002 Kraków view on map Monday - closed
Tuesday - 10.00-18.00
wednesday-sunday - 10.00-16.00 Check the ticket prices
Orthodox Art of the Old Polish Republic

The exhibition features a hitherto little known group of icons, one of the oldest and most precious collections of Orthodox painting in Central Europe. It contains mainly the works coming from the south-eastern borderlands of the old 'Rzeczpospolita'.
MNK The Ciołek
ul. Kanonicza 17, 31-002 Kraków view on map Monday - closed
Tuesday - 10.00-18.00
wednesday-sunday - 10.00-16.00 Check the ticket prices
The Numismatic Room

The Numismatic Room was established in 1883. The initially modest collection expanded mainly thanks to the generosity of private benefactors such as Henryk Bukowski. The 1903 donation of Emeryk Hutten-Czapski's collection resulted in a radical change in the rank of the Room, which became the repository of the most representative collection of Polish coins, medals and banknotes, featuring a number of unique objects (e.g. Bolesław Chrobry's GNEZDVN CIVITAS denarius or Władysław Łokietek's ducat).
MNK The Czapski
ul. Piłsudskiego 12, 31-109 Kraków view on map Monday - closed
tue - 10.00-18.00
wednesday-sunday - 10.00-16.00 Check the ticket prices
Krakow within your reach

In the beautifully restored cellars of the Bishop Erazm Ciołek Palace, visitors can admire 800 fragments of the most valuable architectural sculptures from all over Poland, originating from such places as St. Mary's Church, Krakow Cathedral or Gniezno Cathedral.
MNK The Ciołek
ul. Kanonicza 17, 31-002 Kraków view on map Monday - closed
Tuesday - 10.00-18.00
wednesday-sunday - 10.00-16.00 Check the ticket prices
Collection of old prints and manuscripts

The manuscripts collection was initiated through a donation from the Czapski family in form of Emeryk Hutten-Czapski's library containing over eight thousand items.
MNK The Czapski
ul. Piłsudskiego 12, 31-109 Kraków view on map Monday - closed
tue - 10.00-18.00
wednesday-sunday - 10.00-16.00 Check the ticket prices

The Kapists. 100th anniversary!

The National Museum in Krakow presents in the Józef Czapski Pavilion the early works of the Kapists – members of the group formed in 1923 around Józef Pankiewicz, professor of the Krakow Academy of Fine Arts. The influence of the French masters Cézanne and Bonnard is clearly visible in them.

Display of the portrait of Eliza Pareńska and drawings from a private collection

The Stanisław Wyspiański Museum, a branch of the National Museum in Krakow, is located in the Old Granary, a building erected in the 18th century, which over the years has served as a granary, factory, shop, and headquarters of the Association of Polish Architects.