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Temporary exhibitions
Show department
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25.04.2025
The “Gardens of Sculptors” project is an educational trail combining the pleasure of walking with gaining knowledge about women’s art. Visiting the gardens of our museum branches will allow you to become familiar with the work of female artists who have shaped the image of Polish sculpture from the end of the 19th century to the present day.
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11.04.2025
12.10.2025
The exhibition illustrates the role of small objects – coins, amulets, medallions and medals – in the history of medicine. Visitors can trace their function from ancient Egypt to modern times, with a particular emphasis on the history of Kraków.
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27.03.2025
13.07.2025
Travelling to the UK for the first time, 16 of Stanisław Wyspiański’s most admired portraits, many of which have never been seen outside Poland, will be displayed at the National Portrait Gallery.
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17.01.2025
15.06.2025
Japanese woodblock prints from the collection of the National Museum in Krakow
It is with great satisfaction that we invite visitors to an exhibition of the works of Kitagawa Utamaro (1754–1806), one of the greatest masters of Japanese woodblock prints of the Edo period (1603–1868).
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17.12.2024
15.06.2025
Every great family is made up of extraordinary women: wives, mothers, daughters who – although not necessarily exposed – are the foundation and support of the family.
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20.12.2024
18.05.2025
The exhibition “Transformations. Modernity in the Third Polish Republic” is the last in the “4 x Modernity” series which has been organised at the National Museum in Krakow since 2021. As part of the exhibition, a wide variety of interpretations of modernity are shown in the fields of Polish art, architecture and design, beginning from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries and continuing up to the present day. This fourth exhibition will illustrate the phenomenon of the revision of the concept of modernity and its titular transformation, which were contemporaneous with the social, cultural, and political transformations which took place after 1989. A consequence of these transformations was a multiplicity of creative attitudes and a reinterpretation of the code of modernity, which no longer presented a unified and cohesive image yet which brought about a dynamic and diverse polyphony of voices, characteristic of the cultural life of the Third Republic.
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25.03.2025
29.06.2025
The exhibition “Young Poland”, dedicated to Poland and the development of Polish art in its “golden period“, that is between 1890 and 1918, will be held in Japan in 2025. It will tell a story about Polish history, the prologue to which will be outlined by works by Jan Matejko and Artur Grottger, as well as about Polish art, which at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries was not only part of the process of constructing national identity, but also ensured Poland’s presence and successes in the art salons of Europe despite the fact that Poland did not exist on maps of the time.
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26.11.2024
11.05.2025
The beauty of books is determined by the fonts used, their form, and the initials, which comprise a fundamental aspect of the layout of the text, often enriched with illustrations. The graphic design of both books and maps is enhanced by the addition of many decorative elements such as vignettes, tailpieces, cartouches, decorative borders, dashes and so on, which give a compact block of text or title a feeling of elegance and lightness. The style of these decorations allows for the identification of the period in which a given book or map was created.
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02.11.2024
18.05.2025
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.