Search results for the phrase "medal"

• 20-05-2025
  13-07-2025
  

  Marian Kukiel – a historian, general, director”

  This exhibition commemorates the 140th anniversary of the birth of General Marian Kukiel - a legionary, a participant in the Polish-Soviet War of 1920, a military historian, director of the Czartoryski Museum (1930-1939), and Minister of National Defense of the London-based government-in-exile from 1942 to 1949. Kukiel authored works highly regarded by specialists, including Outline of Military History, The War of 1812, and History of Poland during the Partition Period, 1795-1921.

  MNK Czartoryski Museum

  ul. Pijarska 15, 31-015 Kraków view on map Monday - CLOSED
  Tuesday - Sunday - 10.00-18.00 Check the ticket prices

• 11-04-2025
  12-10-2025
  

  The strength of faith – the power of knowledge. Amulets and numismatic objects in the history of medicine

  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.

  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

• 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 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

• 27-06-2023
  07-01-2024
  

  The Singer. A Masterpiece by Józef Mehoffer

  Starting in the spring of 1894, Józef Mehoffer, who was on scholarship in Paris, began to devote his free time quite intensively to music. He owed this to having made the acquaintance at that time of the Janakowski sisters, Jadwiga (1871-1956), his future wife, and Wanda (1873-1940), who had come to the French capital to study art. They were from a landowning family in the Eastern Borderlands. Jadwiga developed her painting skills, while Wanda’s forte was singing. Both were particularly fascinated by the music of Richard Wagner

  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

• 04-10-2022
  01-01-2023
  

  The Geniuses of the cathedral Treasury

  The Cathedral Treasury at Wawel Castle is a Late Gothic, three-bay structure with a rib-vault ceiling, constructed in the late 15^th century, adjacent to the Cathedral on the northeast side. Since that time, it has been a place for storing precious historic objects of national significance such as sacred relics, priestly regalia, and other ceremonial items.

  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

• 04-02-2022
  23-04-2023
  

  Medal in private. Private Medals in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

  From their very beginnings, medals have been close to the hearts of those who receive them – quite literally! They were often meant to be held in the hand, and to be passed from hand to hand (either in official ceremonies or during private events), or sent by post, or even … tossed out into gathered crowds. They were used in a variety of ways also. They were sometimes piously stored in small cases, or ostentatiously worn on the chest, everyday items were decorated with them, or they were interred in graves along with the deceased. They accompanied people during family celebrations such as baptisms, weddings and funerals, but also lent a celebratory touch to official ceremonies. Their purpose was to commemorate events and individuals, thus they were mementos of a personal nature in every sense.

  The Czapski Museum

  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

• 14-01-2020
  30-08-2020
  

  Images of writing people – authors and their works

  Woodcut portrait of Mikołaj Rej from the Krakow edition of Zwierzyniec (Bestiary) of 1574, and the lithograph bust of Adam Mickiewicz from the Warsaw edition of Poetry of 1833 – these and other portraits of wordsmiths are shown at the exhibition devoted to the images of authors and their works.

  The Czapski Museum

  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

• 20-07-2019
  14-01-2020
  

  Józef Mehoffer - St. Sebastian and St. Maurice

  On 10 April 2019, the collection of the National Museum in Krakow gained Józef Mehoffer’s another design for the stained glass windows in the Fribourg Cathedral: The St. Sebastian and St. Maurice cartoon, which together with the St. Catherine and St. Barbara cartoon bought last year, form the design of the stained glass window The Martyrs — world-class masterpiece of monumental art, awarded the gold medal at the World’s Fair in Paris in 1900.

  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

• 31-10-2018
  27-01-2019
  

  Independence. Around the historical thought of Józef Piłsudski

  A lot of museums prepared exhibitions related to the 100th anniversary of Polish independence. The one at the National Museum in Krakow differs from them with a strict relationship with the historical thought of Józef Piłsudski – creator of Polish Legions, architect of independence, but also the strategist, publicist and inquiring analyst of Polish history.

  MNK The Main Building

  al. 3 Maja 1 view on map Monday - closed
  Tuesday - Sunday - 10.00-18.00 Check the ticket prices

• 06-09-2016
  31-12-2016
  

  Old Prints on Medal-Making

  On 6 September, the Emeryk Hutten-Czapski Museum opened a display presenting the most beautiful and interesting old prints from the NMK collection on the theme of medal-making. The exhibition from the series 'De Re Nummaria' features objects such as albums with meticulous drawings presenting the achievements of ancient medallists, as well as academic studies analyzing the information they contain.

  The Czapski Museum

  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

• 14-06-2016
  18-09-2016
  

  Papal Splendour

  One week before the opening of the exhibition 'Maria: Mater Misericordiae', visitors to the EUROPEUM will be able to see a work by Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598–1680), the greatest artist of European Baroque: a bronze portrait medallion of Pope Clement X (from a private collection).

  MNK The Wyspiański

  pl. Sikorskiego 6, 31-115 Kraków view on map Monday - closed
  Tuesday - 10.00-17.00
  Wednesday - Thursday - closed
  Friday - sunday - 10:00 – 17:00 Check the ticket prices

• 03-06-2016
  31-12-2017
  

  Art of the Polish Legions

  On 18 March 1916 the first great Polish exhibition of legionary art, organized by Jerzy Mycielski, was opened in the rooms of the Krakow Society of Friends of Fine Arts. More than 500 works by artists serving in the Polish Legions and those supporting the Legions’ Cause with their art were shown. Originally scheduled to last a month, the exhibition was such a great success that it was extended until the middle of May 1916.

  MNK The Main Building

  al. 3 Maja 1 view on map Monday - closed
  Tuesday - Sunday - 10.00-18.00 Check the ticket prices

• 24-05-2016
  04-09-2016
  

  Love Has Increased with the Passing of Time

  In 2016, we are we are commemorating two round anniversaries of the deaths of the founders of the Emeryk Hutten-Czapski Museum: 120 years have passed since the death, in Krakow, of Count Emeryk Hutten-Czapski (1828-1896), an outstanding collector and owner of the greatest collection of Polish coins and medals and the initiator of the Counts Czapski museum, and 100 years have passed since the death, in Mink, Belarus, of his wife Elżbieta Hutten-Czapska née Baroness Meyendorff (1833―1916), the real founder of the Emeryk Hutten-Czapski Museum and the one who donated it to the City of Krakow. These anniversaries provide an opportunity to recall some less known facts from the last years of their lives and show the private side of this unique couple.

  The Czapski Museum

  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

• 24-05-2016
  28-05-2017
  

  Collection – Evolution

  Evolution (Latin evolutio – unfolding, unrolling) 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 (Latin colligere – gather into a whole), 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.

  The Czapski Museum

  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

• 05-05-2015
  30-08-2015
  

  Monuments of Polish History

  'Monuments of Polish History. Chronicles and Historiography in Old Prints from the Collection of the National Museum in Krakow'.
  
  The National Museum in Krakow would like to invite the public to another fascinating exhibition – a journey through the history of Poland, in which the most valuable and beautiful old prints: old Polish chronicles, galleries of portraits of rulers, armorials and maps will act as guides.

  The Czapski Museum

  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