Dom Józefa Mehoffera

What to expect

The Józef Mehoffer House at Krupnicza 26 is a biographical museum done right: not a reconstruction but the actual home of one of the leading artists of the Young Poland movement, furnished with his own furniture, paintings and family memorabilia. Mehoffer, a stained glass designer and painter, bought the townhouse between the wars; by a twist of history, Stanisław Wyspiański - his friend and greatest artistic rival - had been born in the very same building decades earlier.

You walk through the rooms as if the owner had just stepped out: drawing room, dining room, study, with paintings, stained glass designs and period decorative art throughout. It is an intimate display, a handful of rooms rather than a palace wing, and that scale is precisely its charm. The garden is a separate draw, reconstructed in 2003 from historical documentation: in summer one of the most pleasant green corners of central Krakow, free to enter, open daily from 10:00 (to 21:00 Monday-Thursday, to 22:00 Friday-Sunday).

Visiting in practice

A visit takes about an hour, and crowds are not a factor. Tickets cost 18 PLN (reduced 14 PLN, family 36 PLN, pupils and students 1 PLN); on Tuesdays the permanent exhibition is free. Note that the museum lists non-standard opening hours on certain days in 2026, so check the National Museum (MNK) website before you go. The garden can be entered without a museum ticket. Labels are the classic house-museum kind; international visitors will get the most out of it with a little background on Young Poland, Krakow’s answer to Art Nouveau.

Getting there

Krupnicza runs off the Planty ring park by the Bagatela Theatre, a few minutes’ walk from the Main Square. Nearest tram stops are Bagatela and Teatr Bagatela on Karmelicka street; from Kraków Główny station it is a fifteen-minute walk.

Nearby

Five minutes away, on plac Sikorskiego, the Stanisław Wyspiański Museum is the natural companion visit. Continue towards the Błonia meadow for the Stained Glass Museum, the working studio where both artists’ windows were made, or head to Kanonicza street for old Polish art at the Bishop Erazm Ciołek Palace.