Tuesday is the day of free entry to permanent exhibitions at the NMK.
The café and reading room in the Józef Czapski Pavilion are open Tuesday - Friday 10.00 - 18.00 Saturday - Sunday 10.00 - 19.00 Monday - closed.
The historic garden and lapidarium are open every day until dusk. Admission is free.
The museum is closed on Mondays.
The café and reading room in the Józef Czapski Pavilion are open Tuesday - Friday 10.00 - 18.00 Saturday - Sunday 10.00 - 19.00 Monday - closed.
The historic garden and lapidarium are open every day until dusk. Admission is free.
The museum is closed on Mondays.
MNK The Czapski - Exhibitions
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04.02.2025
09.03.2025
MNK The Czapskiul. 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 -
26.11.2024
11.05.2025
EXHIBITION – VIGNETTES, SIGNETS, AND CARTOUCHES – THE BEAUTY OF ANCIENT BOOKS AND MAPS
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.MNK The Czapskiul. 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 -
11.10.2024
06.04.2025
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.MNK The Czapskiul. 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 -
25.06.2024
24.11.2024
MNK The Czapskiul. 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 -
16.02.2024
01.09.2024
Memento vitae. Paintings by Józef Czapski in the collections of the National Museum in Krakow
“Friday. I only wrote on the cover of this new notebook: memento! Because here I wasn’t talking only about memento Mori, but about memento Vitae, which still awaits me, whether this life will last a day or a few years!” – wrote 91-year-old Józef Czapski in one of his last diaries.
The exhibition Memento vitae is the first presentation of the entire collection of Czapski’s paintings in the collections of the National Museum in Krakow.MNK The Czapskiul. 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 -
06.08.2024
19.01.2025
MNK The Czapskiul. 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 -
23.01.2024
23.06.2024
THE EDWARD GOLDSTEIN LIBRARY
The library of Edward Goldstein (1844–1920) is part of a collection donated to the National Museum in Krakow in 1909 by a doctor, anthropologist and collector, who lived for over 40 years in emigration in Paris, where he sought refuge following the January Uprising.MNK The Czapskiul. 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 -
01.08.2023
21.01.2024
SIX DAYS OF CREATION
The Biblical account of the Creation of Heaven and Earth spans 31 verses of the first book of the Old Testament, Bereshit in Hebrew, and Genesis in Latin. The conciseness of this description has excited the literary imagination of humankind since ancient times, and since the Middle Ages it has been a canvas on which to visualise the beginnings of the world.
MNK The Czapskiul. 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 -
29.09.2023
31.12.2023
Adam Marczyński. Lyricism and Form
The presentation of more than 60 works from the collections of the National Museum in Krakow and the Museum of Art in Łódź aims to highlight the moment at which the artistic credo of Adam Marczyński was taking form, where the caesura is the 1940s to the mid-1960s. The exhibition examines the post-war output of the artist, who in his later years became interested in geometric abstraction. It is an excellent opportunity to juxtapose the artist’s painted works with the subtle, even poetic drawings and outstanding monotypes. The story ends with works associated with the geometric abstraction movement. Marczyński’s art.MNK The Czapskiul. 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 -
20.10.2023
07.07.2024
Glitter of gold. From the Collection of the Numismatic Cabinet
The Emeryk Hutten-Czapski Museum is a very special place. It is first and foremost a kind of national treasury, where the most precious collection of Polish coins and medals is stored. Additionally, it is perhaps the only collection of this type which survived the Second World War virtually without losses despite comprising mainly objects made of gold, which were frequently the first victims of wartime looting and pillage by occupying forces and individuals exploiting the chaos and disruptions of that time.MNK The Czapskiul. 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 -
03.02.2023
27.08.2023
Czapski acquisitions. Norwid in diaries
The collection of artistic works by Józef Czapski at the National Museum in Krakow currently amounts to 27 oil paintings, 3 etchings, and 15 drawings (loose, not collated in folios). In the years 2019–2022, the NMK received as gifts or otherwise acquired 4 oil paintings, an ink drawing, and Czapski’s table from the collection of Renata and Marek Szypulski and the Polish Humanitarian Fund in France, as well as etchings from the collection of Barbara and Richard Aeschlimann.MNK The Czapskiul. 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 -
28.02.2023
30.07.2023
Exhibition: “What did people read in home alcoves?”
This exhibition is dedicated to the books that were read in quiet alcoves in the home, a space that allowed readers to explore their private interests and deepen their knowledge, as well as to read for the sheer pleasure and entertainment of reading. Here we will find religious texts and travelogues spanning the 16th to 19th centuries as well as maps and atlases.MNK The Czapskiul. 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 -
10.06.2022
15.01.2023
THE MODERN ART FROM THE PRINCES LUBOMIRSKI COLLECTION
The National Museum in Krakow has organised many interesting exhibitions presenting items from private collections. The opportunity to see works that cannot be seen on a daily basis returns thanks to the presentation of works of avant-garde art from the collection of Jan Lubomirski-Lanckoroński.MNK The Czapskiul. 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 -
01.12.2021
30.01.2022
MNK The Czapskiul. 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 -
10.07.2021
15.04.2022
MNK The Czapskiul. 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 -
30.10.2020
25.04.2021
Marian Warzecha.<br>The Open Set
The exhibition of Marian Warzecha’s work held at the National Museum in Krakow, while modest, is a vitally important initiative aimed at presenting the oeuvre of this eminent artist.MNK The Czapskiul. 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 -
02.07.2019
18.10.2020
Józef Czapski: painting drawing diaries
Józef Czapski: painting, drawing, diaries from the collection of the National Museum in Krakow, as well as the collections of Krystyna Zachwatowicz-Wajda and Andrzej Wajda, is the most complete presentation of Józef Czapski’s paintings at the Józef Czapski’s Pavilion.MNK The Czapskiul. 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 -
17.05.2019
23.06.2019
Let’s Talk
We are pleased to invite you to the exhibition "Let’s Talk" at the Józef Czapski Pavilion.MNK The Czapskiul. 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 -
02.01.2019
28.04.2019
To Jan as a sign of eternal alliance
The paintings of Jan Cybis from the collections of the National Museum in Krakow and the donation of Jacek Cybis to the National Museum in Krakow.MNK The Czapskiul. 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 -
18.09.2018
09.12.2018
Parisian climate in Józef Czapski's diaries
Józef Czapski's diaries are an extraordinary combination of diaries and painting, as well as a specific calendar of the artist's rich life. The National Museum in Krakow has 275 diaries and the Józef Czapski Pavilion regularly exhibits those valuable objects, every time in a different thematic scene, prepared by Janusz S. Nowak.MNK The Czapskiul. 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 -
19.12.2017
16.09.2018
MNK The Czapskiul. 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 -
09.11.2017
10.12.2017
MNK The Czapskiul. 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 -
21.09.2017
22.10.2017
MNK The Czapskiul. 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 -
08.06.2017
10.09.2017
MNK The Czapskiul. 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