Digitization projects

On 11–12 May, Kraków hosted a Musedu+ project meeting and a conference during which various aspects of cultural institutions’ digital presence were discussed: New technologies = new skills? Prospects for staff development in the cultural sector. The events were attended by an international team representing the partner institutions of the Musedu+ project – guests from […]

The National Museum in Kraków invites applications for the position of: IT Specialist. The National Museum in Kraków is a cultural institution with a tradition stretching back over 140 years. The collections in our care comprise one million exhibits, and our mission is to promote Polish and international art. We currently employ nearly 600 staff […]

We invite you to take part in a survey of young audiences The National Museum in Kraków has been consistently developing initiatives aimed at young people for many years. In previous years, as part of participatory projects, we have carried out, amongst others, the My Place and Use the Museum projects, in which we worked […]

Since the opening of the exhibition of modern and contemporary art in the MNK Main Building (1959), the National Museum in Kraków has been consistently building its collection of contemporary art, focusing on the most interesting developments in the field and selecting works by artists who are distinctive representatives of their era. We are, however, […]

Thanks to financial support from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, the MNK’s collection of contemporary art has been expanded with new acquisitions. As part of the project “Dialogue with Modernism: Contemporary Art in the Collection of the National Museum in Kraków”, in 2016 we acquired for our collection exceptional works that engage perfectly […]

The seventeen working designs for stained-glass windows in St Nicholas’s Cathedral in Fribourg, Switzerland, by MNK Mehoffer are exceptional works within the artist’s entire artistic legacy. The Fribourg collection comprises a total of twenty-one cartoons, four of which were owned by the National Museum in Kraków (they were acquired between 2014 and 2019 thanks to […]

Thanks to funding from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, a collection of garments designed by Gosia Baczyńska has been added to the holdings of the National Museum in Kraków. Gosia Baczyńska is one of the most outstanding Polish fashion designers working in the 21st century. Her versatility, creativity and sensitivity enable her to […]

A unique drawing by Stanisław Wyspiański, entitled ‘Side view of the stalls in the Church of the Holy Cross in Kraków’, has been added to the collections of the National Museum in Kraków. It was created during the restoration of the Gothic interiors of the Church of the Holy Cross in Kraków, for which Wyspiański […]

The year 2026, designated by the Sejm of the Republic of Poland as the Year of Józef Czapski, will be celebrated in a special way at the National Museum in Kraków, whose oldest branch is the Emeryk Hutten-Czapski Museum (the MNK Czapski Museum). Founded by the eminent numismatic collector Count Emeryk Hutten-Czapski (1828–1896) and his […]

The National Museum in Kraków has received funding from the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, drawn from the Culture Promotion Fund as part of the ‘Regional Contemporary Art Collections’ programme, for the purchase of Wilhelm Sasnal’s painting ‘Crawl in Black/Kraul Czarnego’. Painted in 2015, this large-scale painting was created following the artist’s stay on […]

In April 2019, another of Józef Mehoffer’s working designs for the stained-glass windows at St Nicholas’ Cathedral in Freiburg joined the collection of the National Museum in Krakow: the cartoon St Sebastian and St Maurice (1899), which, together with the cartoon “St Catherine and St Barbara”, purchased by the National Museum in Kraków last year, […]

The acquisition of Lech Majewski’s work *Bruegel: Video Art Triptych I–III*. Co-funded by the Minister of Culture, National Heritage and Sport. In November 2021, the National Museum in Kraków acquired the video art piece (audiovisual work) by director Lech Majewski, entitled BRUEGEL TRIPTYCH I-III, for its collection. The funds for the purchase were obtained through […]