Krakow's Other Museum 

Museums in Krakow with specialist collections

Krakow boasts the best collections in Poland, and some of its treasures are the envy of every museum in the world. Click here to go to the city's major museums. Following are Krakow sites with collections of special interest.  

Cathedral Museum on the Wawel Hill
Best items from the Wawel Cathedral's treasure-house. Best items from the Wawel Cathedral's treasure-house. 

Open Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. 

University Museum at 15 Jagiellonska street.
15th-century grand Collegium Maius, the oldest building of the Jagiellonian University, features ancient lecture rooms, communal halls, former professors’ quarters, library and treasury with the Gothic sceptres of rectors and the famous golden ‘Jagiellonian globe’. The exhibits include medieval science instruments, ancient globes as well as assorted paintings and other art objects, furniture, coins, medals, etc.

Opening hours from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and to from 10 a.m. 2 p.m. on Saturdays. Closed on Suindays. 

Admittance for individual visitors is free of charge on Tuesdays, from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. 

National Museum’s Jan Matejko’s House at 41 Florianska street.
House of the great 19th-century Polish painter turned into the museum on his life and art.

Jewish Museum at 24 Szeroka street.
The ‘Tradition and Culture of Polish Jews’ permanent exhibition in the 15th-century Old Synagogue features ancient items from Krakow synagogues, exhibits pertaining to religious rites and family traditions, and pictures of the life of the Kazimierz Jewish quarter of the old. Another exhibition shows Holocaust.

Open on Mondays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and Tuesday through Sunday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 

Admission is free on Mondays.

"Manggha" Museum of Japanese Art and Technology at 26 Konopnickiej street
Permanent exhibition of famous ancient Japanese woodblocks, exquisite handcrafts, and samurai weapons and armor in the modern building of Manggha Center of Japanese Art and Technology designed by Arata Isozaki.

Open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday. Closed on Mondays. 

Free admission on Tuesdays. 

Museum of Natural History at 9 Sebastiana street.
The place boasts the world’s only ice-age hairy rhino found almost intact in 1929. Plus assorted fossils, examples of extinct and endangered species, Poland’s fauna, shells, insects, minerals, etc.

Hipolitow House at 3 Mariacki Pl.
Old burgher mansion next to the Grand Square shows historical interiors of Krakow houses from the 17th c. to the mid 20th c. Plus temporary exhibitions. 

Open Wednesday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Closed on Mondays, Tuesdays, and the second Sunday of every month. 

Free admission on Wednesdays. 

Aviation Museum at 17 Jana Pawla II street.
Airplanes, helicopters, aircraft engines, etc. on the former Rakowice Airfield, where the first Polish plane, built in Krakow in 1910, once landed. Over 200 exhibits, often unique, and in some cases dating back to the Great World.

Open on weekends from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., on Mondays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Tuesday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 

Free admission on Mondays. 

National Museum’s Stanislaw Wyspianski Museum at 11 Szczepanska street.
Biographical museum of Stanislaw Wyspianski, Poland's genius painter, playwright, poet, and designer.  

Closed on Mondays. Open Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 

Free admission on Sundays.

National Museum’s Jozef Mehoffer’s House at 26 Krupnicza street.
Biographical museum of the noted Polish painter, born 1869, in the house he bought in the 1930s and where he lived till death in 1946. 

Closed on Mondays. Open Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 

Free admission on Sundays.

Pharmacy Museum at 25 Florianska street.
Old pharmacies, their equipment, street signs, etc. plus varied curios. Allegedly biggest such museum in Europe.

Open on Tuesdays from noon to 6:30 p.m. and Wednesday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Closed on Mondays. 

Photography Museum at 16 Jozefitów street.
The Museum boasts unique daguerreotypes, old photographs, cameras, studio and darkroom equipment. Temporary exhibitions display photos of the present day and the past.

Open on weekends from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and Wednesday trough Friday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Closed on Mondays and Tuesdays. 

Free admission on Sundays. 

Museum of Municipal Engineering at 15 Sw. Wawrzynca street.
Old vehicles and means of the Krakow public transport on the site of the city’s former streetcar shed dating back to 1900. Plus exhibits illustrating presence of the technology in everyday life over the last two centuries. 

Open Tuesday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Closed on Mondays. 

Admission is free on Tuesdays. 

Home Army Museum at 13 Bosacka street.
Poland’s Home Army was the largest military resistance organization in the whole Nazi-occupied Europe during the WW2, and the museum tries to show it through documents, photos, weapons, uniforms, etc. 

Open Tuesday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. 

Museum of Krakow Theater at 21 Szpitalna street.
History of theatre in Krakow plus temporary exhibitions in the Pod Krzyzem (Under the Cross) House built in the 15th century for a student hospital. 

Dom Slaski at 2 Pomorska street.
Exhibition on the WW2 martyrdom and anti-nazi resistance in the former seat of the dreadful Gestapo police force. 

Open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. 

Free admission. 

Remembrance Museum at 18 Bohaterow Getta Pl.
Documents and photos on the premises of former ghetto pharmacy that covered up the Polish assistance to Jews show the tragedy of Holocaust. 

Open Tuesday through Sunday from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. and on Mondays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. 

Free admission on Mondays. 

Celestat at 16 Lubicz street.
History of Krakow’s Cock Fraternity, the 700-year-old shooting association, in its hall and former shooting range: pictures, memorabilia, costumes, old documents, etc. 

Open Tuesday through Saturday from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. 

Free admission on Wednesdays. 

Geology Museum at 3 Senacka street.
Collection of meteorites is the museum’s crown jewel yet the bulk of the exhibits pertain to the geology of the Krakow region. 

Zoology Museum at 6 Ingardena street.
Fauna of the world on display at the Zoological Institute of the Jagiellonian University: 6,000 species from all over the globe and a collection of exotic mollusks.

Young Poland’s ‘Rydlowka’ Museum at 28 Tetmajera street.
The manor house, where in 1900 a wedding party proved formative to the Young Poland artistic movement, turned into a museum of the event. 

Open Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. plus on Thurrdays from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. Closed on Sundays.