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covers Japanese art. A bequest
of objects from the Far East
presented by Feliks Manggha
Jasieński constitutes the
core of the collection, which
also includes works by
contemporary artists.

Local Culture and
Natural History
The Archaeological Museum
displays important objects found
in the 19th century in Galicia
(see p32), which was then under
The main building of the National Museum in Krakow Austrian occupation. One of
them is the statue of Światowid
Gallery, is also of great interest. also organizes exhibitions of fished out of the Zbrucz River.
Twentieth-century painting works on loan from leading Other objects found during the
and sculpture can be admired church treasuries throughout construction of Nowa Huta and
in the main building. The Poland as well as other countries. renovation works at Kanonicza
museum has a programme Street were also added. There is
of temporary monographic also a notable collection of
exhibitions concerned with the Foreign Art Egyptian mummies.
life and work of great Krakow Western art, including Landscape The Ethnographic Museum
artists such as Jan Matejko, with the Good Samaritan by houses a large collection of
Stanisław Wyspiański and Rembrandt, Romanesque gold folk art from the Lesser Poland
Józef Mehoffer. work from the Maas region and region. Temporary exhibitions,
The museum in the Meissen porcelain, can be found which take place at the
wonderfully restored former at the Czartoryski Museum. The Krakowska Street branch,
Palace of Bishop Erazm museum is closed for renovation are always of interest.
Ciołek houses religious art houses religious art until at least 2020; during this An extremely well pre-
Ciołek
Ciołek
through the ages. A section time, its most celebrated master- served rhinoceros (coelodonta
devoted to Orthodox religious piece, The Lady with an Ermine antiquitatis) from the Ice Age
art displays a beautiful by Leonardo da Vinci, is on is a highlight of the Natural
collection of icons from display at the National Museum History Museum.
Poland’s eastern borderlands. in Krakow.
Contemporary Polish and The Szołajski House hosts Museums and Galleries
non-Polish art can be seen changing exhibitions of inter-
at the popular Museum of national art, many of them Archdiocesan Museum p84
Contemporary Art in Krakow featuring famous names Archaeological Museum p85
(MOCAK), as well as at the and grand historical themes. Bunker of Art p107
Cathedral Museum p64
Bunker of Art, which is The European branch of the Cloth Hall Gallery pp104–5
considered Krakow’s most Cloth Hall Gallery houses the Collegium Maius pp108–9
important gallery. Housed in a museum’s collection of western Cricoteka p159
small, elegant white building, art, which displays important Czartoryski Museum pp114–15
the Józef Czapski Pavilion is works by Brueghel the Younger Ethnographic Museum p125
dedicated to the versatile and Lorenzo Lotto. Japanese Centre of Art and
20th-century artist. The The Manggha Japanese Technology p42
pavilion’s colourful display Centre of Art and Technology Józef Czapski Pavilion p149
includes his personal diaries Józef Mehoffer House Museum p149
and photos, as well as archival “Lost Wawel” Exhibition pp64–5
film and interview footage Matejko House p116
documenting the social and Museum of Contemporary Art
political climate of Europe during in Krakow (MOCAK) p159
Czapski’s lifetime. The Cricoteka Museum of Krakow p98
National Museum in Krakow
displays the works of 20th- pp150–51
century painter and designer Natural History Museum p87
Tadeusz Kantor. The museum is Old Synagogue p124
housed in a striking modern Palace of Bishop Erazm Ciołek p84
building on the river bank. Schindler’s Factory p158
The Archdiocesan Museum Szołayski House p112
has a magnificent collection of Tin-glazed majolica plate (c. 1545) from Wawel Royal Castle pp72–5
Polish sacred art. The museum the collection of the Czartoryski Museum