When in Krakow, it's worth visiting the National Museum. Here you will encounter both permanent and temporary exhibitions, which will allow you to deepen your understanding of culture and art. However, the National Museum is not just the Main Building. It consists of many different branches scattered across the map of Krakow. Check out where to find them.
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In the Main Building of the National Museum, you will find the Gallery of Polish Art from the 20th and 21st centuries, the Sculpture Gallery from the same period, and the Gallery of Artistic Crafts. The latter houses collections of goldsmithery, textiles, clothing, furniture, ceramics, and glass, complemented by a unique collection of musical instruments and Judaica. The Gallery of Artistic Crafts itself presents nearly 4,000 exhibits in nine exhibition halls and two annexes. And the oldest artifact in its collections is a 14th-century stole from the Benedictine abbey in Tyniec.
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The Gallery of 19th Century Polish Art is located in the Cloth Hall. It is one of the largest permanent exhibitions in Poland. The works are displayed in four rooms. The first is the Enlightenment (Bacciarelli Room), the second is Romanticism. Towards national art (Piotr Michałowski's Room), the third is Around the Academy (Siemiradzki's Room, former Prussian Homage) and the fourth is Realism, Polish Impressionism, beginnings of Symbolism (Chełmoński's Room, former Foursome).
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Here, you will encounter the most valuable art collection in Poland and one of the most valuable ones in Europe. The exhibition includes not only 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 paintings, sculptures, crafts, militaria, and works of applied arts. The Czartoryski Museum also houses a vast collection of memorabilia presenting the history of Poland.
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In the Czapski Museum, you will find two exhibitions: one dedicated to numismatics, and the other one to collections of old prints and manuscripts. This place also houses the Czapski Pavilion - a biographical museum dedicated to his memory.
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The Matejko House holds over 8 thousand exhibits. Among them are everyday objects and memorabilia of the artist and his closest relatives: his wife Teodora from the Giebułtowski family Matejko (1846-1896), children: Tadeusz (1865-1911), Helena Unierzyska (1867-1932), Beata Kirchmayer (1869-1926), Jerzy (1873-1827) and Regina (1878-1878), as well as other family members. In addition to souvenirs, you will also find works representing all phases of the painter's creativity, as well as collections of drawings, valuable documents, and a collection of artistic craft items, textiles, costumes, militaria.
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In the Szołayski tenement house, you will primarily find the Gallery of Polish 20th and 21st Century Design. It is a collection of the most interesting examples of Polish design from the last over 120 years.
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This is the location of the Józef Mehoffer Biographical Museum. Thanks to the courtesy of the painter's grandson - Ryszard Mehoffer, numerous objects from the old house furnishings were handed over here: many pieces of antique furniture, artistic craft products, the library, a collection of Japanese woodcuts, sculptures, photographs, family memorabilia and above all, Józef Mehoffer's works: oil paintings, drawings, graphics, decorative designs, and stained glass.
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There are as many as three permanent exhibitions in the Bishop's Palace. These are: the "Art of Old Poland. 12th - 18th century" Gallery, the "Church Art of the Old Republic" Gallery, and "Krakow at your fingertips". The latter is dedicated to fragments of the most valuable architectural sculptures from all over Poland, originating, among others, from St. Mary's Church, the Krakow Cathedral, or the Gniezno Cathedral.
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It is worth noting that this is the second edition of the Wyspiański exhibition at the National Museum in Krakow. Thanks to this expansion, the Krakow National Museum now has the largest collection of Wyspiański's works in Poland. In the Wyspiański Museum, besides the paintings that are forever imprinted in the collective imagination of Poles (such as Planty at dawn (Morning over Wawel) or Polonia), you will also find less known, more intimate works, showing the perfect drawing workshop of the Krakow master - pencil sketches in juvenilia notebooks, Parisian studies in crayon and charcoal, and ink vignettes. Meanwhile, on the ground floor of the Museum, you have a chance to see Wyspiański's self-portraits, including images from 1890 and 1897, and a Self-portrait with his wife from 1904, supplemented by images of children (Sleeping Mietek, Helenka with a vase), as well as portraits of friends from the circle of Krakow's bohemian crowd, including the painter Józef Mehoffer, the writer and doctor Kazimierz Lewandowski, or the poet Antoni Lange.
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