https://krakow.muzea.org.pl/en/exhibitions/Current temporary exhibitions in the museums of Krakow and Małopolska. A practical guide with context for each museum, hours and tickets.Hugo 0.147.6enFri, 07 Aug 2026 13:48:26 +0000© 2026 krakow.muzea.org.pl - Museums of Krakow and Małopolskahttps://krakow.muzea.org.pl/en/exhibitions/imaynalla-kashanki-peru-through-archaeologists-eyes/Thu, 06 Aug 2026 14:45:59 +0200https://krakow.muzea.org.pl/en/exhibitions/imaynalla-kashanki-peru-through-archaeologists-eyes/This page is an attributed English translation of the museum’s Polish copy - Collegium Maius does not publish a translated description of this exhibition; the source page’s “EN” URL displays the same Polish text. “It is very hard to bring someone into a world as distant as Peru using just a handful of photographs. A few sentences cannot capture the wonder of the architecture built on steep slopes, or the colours of its flora and fauna - but we will try,” say the authors of the new temporary exhibition “Imaynalla Kashanki”, on display in the basement of Collegium Maius.exhibitionshttps://krakow.muzea.org.pl/en/exhibitions/masterpieces-from-the-lanckoronski-collection/Thu, 06 Aug 2026 14:45:59 +0200https://krakow.muzea.org.pl/en/exhibitions/masterpieces-from-the-lanckoronski-collection/Antiquity is closer than you think. Not as a bygone era, but as a source of inspiration whose traces can still be found in art and culture. Wawel Royal Castle invites visitors to discover unique artefacts from various parts of Europe and the United States - a unique opportunity to see one of the most important private collections of antiquities and to look at Antiquity from a new perspective. Wawel Royal Castle on the exhibition:exhibitionshttps://krakow.muzea.org.pl/en/exhibitions/soon-everything-will-change/Thu, 06 Aug 2026 14:45:59 +0200https://krakow.muzea.org.pl/en/exhibitions/soon-everything-will-change/Works by Joanna Rajkowska, one of the most important contemporary artists, are being presented at Wawel Royal Castle. In the picturesque surroundings of the Royal Gardens and the Outer Courtyard, visitors can discover three extraordinary installations: a monumental, vibrant common blackbird’s egg - the Hatchling, an authentic crow’s Nest, and the geode Soon Everything Will Change, filled with amethysts and reaching back to “deep time”. Wawel Royal Castle on the exhibition:exhibitionshttps://krakow.muzea.org.pl/en/exhibitions/treasures-from-lowicz/Thu, 06 Aug 2026 14:45:59 +0200https://krakow.muzea.org.pl/en/exhibitions/treasures-from-lowicz/Reliquary crosses, signet rings for sealing letters, a crucifix fashioned into an amulet offering protection from the plague, intricately decorated pins for fastening the pallium and the outstanding ring of Waclaw Leszczynski of the Wieniawa coat of arms, Archbishop of Gniezno and Primate of Poland - these are some of the extraordinary artefacts discovered during archaeological excavations in the crypt of the collegiate church in Lowicz, on display at Wawel Royal Castle.exhibitionshttps://krakow.muzea.org.pl/en/exhibitions/krakowianki-wisla-krakow-womens-basketball/Thu, 30 Jul 2026 11:00:00 +0200https://krakow.muzea.org.pl/en/exhibitions/krakowianki-wisla-krakow-womens-basketball/The women’s basketball section of TS Wisla Krakow is the most decorated team in the history of Polish women’s basketball. Mounted at the Krzysztofory Palace for the club’s 120th anniversary, this display tells that story through the career of a single player - Patrycja Czepiec. The Museum of Krakow on the exhibition (translated from the museum’s Polish description; the museum has not published an English page for this display): On 1 July 2026 the Krzysztofory Palace opens “A View of the Krakowianki - the Phenomenon of the Wisla Krakow Women’s Basketball Team”, organised by the Wisla History Association together with the Museum of Krakow.exhibitionshttps://krakow.muzea.org.pl/en/exhibitions/art-and-trade-krakow-of-craftsmen/Thu, 30 Jul 2026 11:00:00 +0200https://krakow.muzea.org.pl/en/exhibitions/art-and-trade-krakow-of-craftsmen/From the 14th century Krakow’s craftsmen were organised in guilds, and the city granted them priority access to materials and a monopoly on production - in exchange for arming the towers and defending the walls. The exhibition at the Krzysztofory Palace traces that bargain: the workshop, the professional career, and the vivid ritual life of the guild. The Museum of Krakow on the exhibition (translated from the museum’s Polish description; the museum’s English page carries visitor information only):exhibitionshttps://krakow.muzea.org.pl/en/exhibitions/precious-most-precious-czartoryski-library/Thu, 30 Jul 2026 11:00:00 +0200https://krakow.muzea.org.pl/en/exhibitions/precious-most-precious-czartoryski-library/The autograph of Jan Długosz’s Annals, the first edition of Copernicus’s De revolutionibus, Mikołaj Rej’s Zwierzyniec and Fryderyk Chopin’s manuscript of Krakowiak - in a single room. The exhibition at the Czartoryski Museum presents a selection of manuscripts and printed works from the 15th to the 19th century held by one of Poland’s oldest museum libraries. The National Museum in Krakow on the exhibition: The impressive collection of the Princes Czartoryski Library is part of Polish national and European heritage. Started by Adam Kazimierz and Izabela Czartoryski in the 18th century and expanded by subsequent generations, it includes manuscripts and printed works from the Middle Ages to the present day, including the greatest treasures of literature, science and culture.exhibitionshttps://krakow.muzea.org.pl/en/exhibitions/roots-and-sky-kyiv-national-art-gallery/Thu, 30 Jul 2026 11:00:00 +0200https://krakow.muzea.org.pl/en/exhibitions/roots-and-sky-kyiv-national-art-gallery/The Kyiv National Art Gallery holds a modest but compelling group of works by Polish painters of the 19th and the first half of the 20th century - until now largely unknown in Poland. The exhibition in the Malarnia Hall of the Gallery of 19th-Century Polish Art at the Sukiennice presents it to a wider public for the first time. The National Museum in Krakow on the exhibition: Established in 1922, the museum holds a rich and diverse collection of approximately fourteen thousand objects, primarily paintings dating from the 13th century to the present day. The core of the Gallery’s holdings is formed by works originating from private Kyiv collections that were nationalised during the Soviet era. Among the most valuable and best-known of these are the collections of the Tereshchenko and Khanenko families, as well as that of Oskar Hansen.exhibitionshttps://krakow.muzea.org.pl/en/exhibitions/warrior-women-japanese-herstories/Thu, 30 Jul 2026 11:00:00 +0200https://krakow.muzea.org.pl/en/exhibitions/warrior-women-japanese-herstories/Women endowed with remarkable strength, courage and strategic ability recur in Japanese literary, historical and visual tradition as a distinct, recognisable theme. The exhibition at the Manggha Museum approaches them through the ukiyo-e woodblock print, where the concept of onna bugeisha - a woman trained in martial arts - binds together history, legend and the popular imagination of the Edo period. The Manggha Museum on the exhibition: Japanese literary, historical, and visual traditions feature female characters and figures endowed with remarkable strength, courage, and strategic ability. Their portrayals operated at the intersection of history, legend, and popular imagination, forming a major theme in Edo culture. Depicted as participants of military campaigns, they were often characterised by unique intelligence, determination, and an unbending moral stance. An important place in the description of their special status is played by the concept of onna bugeisha, referring to women trained in martial arts.exhibitionshttps://krakow.muzea.org.pl/en/exhibitions/akitsushima-island-of-dragonflies/Thu, 23 Jul 2026 16:00:01 +0200https://krakow.muzea.org.pl/en/exhibitions/akitsushima-island-of-dragonflies/The dragonfly - the insect from which Japan’s oldest name derives - draws together, in the country’s culture, the order of nature, the symbolism of warriors and the refined aesthetics of everyday objects. Built around a collection of Japanese armour and militaria on which the dragonfly recurs as a sign of steadfastness and victory, the exhibition at the Manggha Museum leads visitors through these interwoven threads. The Manggha Museum on the exhibition:exhibitionshttps://krakow.muzea.org.pl/en/exhibitions/children-of-war/Thu, 23 Jul 2026 16:00:01 +0200https://krakow.muzea.org.pl/en/exhibitions/children-of-war/Staged at Oskar Schindler’s Enamel Factory, this exhibition tells the story of the Second World War through the eyes of children - those who were no more than eleven years old when the war broke out on 1 September 1939. Through the micro-stories of more than a dozen protagonists of differing backgrounds, faiths and social standing, it presents wartime childhood as a many-sided experience, and the children themselves not only as victims but as active subjects of those events.exhibitionshttps://krakow.muzea.org.pl/en/exhibitions/japanese-design-today-100/Thu, 23 Jul 2026 16:00:01 +0200https://krakow.muzea.org.pl/en/exhibitions/japanese-design-today-100/Around a hundred objects come together in a many-threaded story about Japanese design - from its historical foundations to the latest work. Products released after 2000 predominate, but carefully chosen earlier examples let visitors trace the roots of ideas that still shape Japanese aesthetics and thinking about design. The exhibition was developed in cooperation with the Japan Foundation. The Manggha Museum on the exhibition: Japanese Design Today 100 was first developed in 2004 by the Japan Foundation and then toured the world for the following decade. A second edition of the well-received exhibition was developed in 2013 and commenced touring the following year. Now we present the third edition of the exhibition, which again brings together superlative examples of Japanese design from a present-day perspective.exhibitionshttps://krakow.muzea.org.pl/en/exhibitions/ecologies-of-togetherness/Thu, 23 Jul 2026 16:00:01 +0200https://krakow.muzea.org.pl/en/exhibitions/ecologies-of-togetherness/During a year-long residency, Katarzyna Krakowiak-Bałka works with the architecture of the MOCAK building, treating the museum as a living organism that can be overwritten and supplemented with new layers of meaning. It is the museum’s first site-specific project built on an artistic residency and a collaboration extending over three seasons, in which the creative process itself is what matters most. MOCAK on the exhibition: During her year-long residency, Katarzyna Krakowiak-Bałka will be working with the architecture of the museum building. The line drawn by the artist symbolically cuts across the entire building, beginning at Lipowa Street, then passing through the patio and the Alfa Gallery, to end in the spaces on the side of Ślusarska Street.exhibitionshttps://krakow.muzea.org.pl/en/exhibitions/preanalogue-postdigital-andrij-bojarov/Thu, 23 Jul 2026 16:00:01 +0200https://krakow.muzea.org.pl/en/exhibitions/preanalogue-postdigital-andrij-bojarov/Nearly a hundred works - single photographs and elaborate sets of images - make up Andrij Bojarov’s solo exhibition. Arranged into unexpected, often surprising configurations, the photographs ask how the medium works as something continually transformed, with an image’s meaning turning out to depend on the context in which it is placed. The Museum of Photography in Krakow on the exhibition (translated from the Polish original): What do we see when images are set into new, unexpected arrangements and detached from their original functions and authors? What happens to their meaning when they begin to operate in new contexts? Andrij Bojarov’s exhibition “Preanalogue Postdigital. Solo Exhibition / Isikunäitus” poses questions about photography as a medium in constant transformation.exhibitionshttps://krakow.muzea.org.pl/en/exhibitions/state-of-possession-topography-mocak-collection-part-1/Thu, 23 Jul 2026 16:00:01 +0200https://krakow.muzea.org.pl/en/exhibitions/state-of-possession-topography-mocak-collection-part-1/The first part of a cycle presenting the MOCAK Collection is not a conventional survey of the holdings but an exhibition built on the experience of absence - of time, stability and resources. The museum’s whole team turns crisis into a tool of self-analysis, organising the show into five metaphorical chapters: Ruins, Nooks, Mud, Wardrobes and Springs. MOCAK on the exhibition: “Dust thou art, so get up and dust yourself off,” Rafał Wojaczek pronounces in Lech Majewski’s film, subverting the universally recognised encapsulation of the inevitable human fate. You won’t see the film at the exhibition State of Possession, just as you won’t see many other things. This exhibition is built upon the experience of absence: a lack of time and stability, and above all, a lack of financial resources - a lack resulting from the implosion of the institution’s budget and the depletion of the resources necessary to have carried out the planned activities. We, however - much like Wojaczek in his defiant assertion - are trying to harness this depletion, understood as a crisis, and find new, different models for working on an exhibition that engages with the MOCAK Collection.exhibitionshttps://krakow.muzea.org.pl/en/exhibitions/together-20-years-sputnik-photos/Thu, 23 Jul 2026 16:00:01 +0200https://krakow.muzea.org.pl/en/exhibitions/together-20-years-sputnik-photos/For the Sputnik Photos collective, photography was never merely a record of reality but a space of encounter and joint action. The exhibition at the Museum of Photography in Krakow tells the story of one of Central and Eastern Europe’s most important photographic groups, presenting photography as a medium of relationships, shared responsibility and giving voice to others. The Museum of Photography in Krakow on the exhibition (translated from the Polish original):exhibitionshttps://krakow.muzea.org.pl/en/exhibitions/lockpicking-piotr-bujak/Thu, 23 Jul 2026 16:00:01 +0200https://krakow.muzea.org.pl/en/exhibitions/lockpicking-piotr-bujak/Curated by Arata Hasegawa, this is the first institutional solo presentation of Piotr Bujak’s work in Krakow. Active primarily in Japan for nearly a decade, the artist has developed an original working model based on reinterpreted Low Budget, Do-It-Yourself, Quick and Dirty and Hit-and-Run strategies. The Manggha Museum on the exhibition: Curated by Arata Hasegawa, the exhibition will be the first institutional solo presentation of Piotr Bujak’s work in Kraków. For nearly a decade, the artist was active primarily in Japan - participating, for example, in Tokyo Biennale 2025 - where he continued developing an original working model based on reinterpreted Low Budget, Do-It-Yourself, Quick and Dirty, and Hit-And-Run strategies.exhibitionshttps://krakow.muzea.org.pl/en/exhibitions/gothic-art-in-the-carpathians/Thu, 23 Jul 2026 15:14:32 +0200https://krakow.muzea.org.pl/en/exhibitions/gothic-art-in-the-carpathians/A major exhibition of Gothic painting and sculpture brings together nearly a hundred works drawn from nine countries on both sides of the Carpathians. It is the first attempt to present the region as a single artistic zone, where the same workshops, paintings and sculptures crossed borders - and many of the objects go on public view for the first time. The National Museum in Krakow on the exhibition: “Gothic Art in the Carpathians” is the first attempt to jointly present the art of the late Middle Ages across all the countries of the region. By assembling around one hundred paintings and sculptures brought from nine countries, complemented by photographic documentation made specially for the exhibition of what cannot be moved (wall paintings, architectural sculpture), we show the Carpathians as an artistic area of sustained continuity, where one work of art gave rise to the next. The same workshops operated on both sides of the mountains, paintings and sculptures were sent in both directions, and artistic tendencies interpenetrated here just as freely.exhibitionshttps://krakow.muzea.org.pl/en/exhibitions/szapocznikow-personal/Thu, 23 Jul 2026 15:14:32 +0200https://krakow.muzea.org.pl/en/exhibitions/szapocznikow-personal/An intimate, deliberately close display of sculpture by Alina Szapocznikow - one of the most important artists of Poland’s post-war avant-garde. The exhibition builds an almost bodily closeness between the viewer and works whose constant centre is the human body. The National Museum in Krakow on the exhibition: The brutal forms of Alina Szapocznikow’s works - torn, deformed silhouettes - and the naturalism of her polyester casts are marked by strong expression.exhibitionshttps://krakow.muzea.org.pl/en/exhibitions/van-gogh-country-cottages/Thu, 23 Jul 2026 15:14:32 +0200https://krakow.muzea.org.pl/en/exhibitions/van-gogh-country-cottages/The National Museum in Krakow shows the only Vincent van Gogh painting in a Polish public collection - an intimate, early landscape from 1883, on loan from the John Paul II Collection. This is a single-work exhibition, told around the painting’s remarkable and turbulent history. The National Museum in Krakow on the exhibition: In the European Art Gallery of the National Museum in Krakow, we present the only painting by Vincent van Gogh in a Polish public collection, Country Cottages among Trees, from the John Paul II Collection belonging to the Archdiocese of Warsaw.exhibitions