The Armoury of the Princes Czartoryski Museum is small albeit one of the most attractive in Poland as it holds an impressive collection of objects of high historical and artistic value, very many of them from the original Puławy collection at the Temple of Sybil (founded 1801) and the Gothic House (built 1809) The founder Izabela Czartoryska saw the Temple of Sybil as the pantheon of Polish war glory and managed to garner kings’ and hetmans’ arms and war trophies. The historical weapons and commanders’ symbolic insignia, sabres, batons and buzdygan maces were received from befriended or related aristocratic families: the Lubomirskis, Potockis, Radziwills, Sapiehas or Zamoyskis. She also acquired memorabilia of kings from the Crown Treasury at the Wawel Hill, Krakow. A major part of the Turkish trophies seized at Vienna in 1863 was moved to the Temple from the Treasury House at the Sieniawa estate. She also garnered contemporary mementoes and military objects, as she was friendly terms with Tadeusz Kosciusko, Prince Józef Poniatowski and a legion of future Napoelonic officers, who contributed generous gifts. The Gothic House was intended as show space for memorabilia of distinguished historical figures: emperors, kings, princes, war heroes, etc. A lot of real and alleged memorabilia were acquired by Princess Czartoryski from the Vienna and Brussels arsenals, including elements of magnificent Gothic and Renaissance armours of unchallengeable authenticity.

After 1876 when the Museum and Library were moved to Krakow, the Armoury grew through some fine legacies, for example from Eligiusz Suchodolski, and through purchases of substantial parts of the collections of Tadeusz Zieliński of Kielce and Karol Rogawski of Ołpiny. More bequests came in after World War II, for example from the Sapiehas.