Temporary exhibitions (31)

Agata Kus Horror Picture Show

This is the first major showcase of paintings and ceramics by the young Krakow artist Agata Kus. Over 100 artworks spanning the 2009–2019 period will be displayed at the exhibition. About a...

Bunkier Sztuki, pl. Szczepański 3a

Krakow Street Photo Festival

“Everyone describes photography as their passion, regardless whether it’s their profession or a hobby. They are joined by their desire to show the world in statu nascendi but from their...

Skład Solny, ul. Na Zjeździe 8, Kraków

Kraków Nativity Scene Contest Exhibition

The exhibition at Celestat presents all the works submitted to the 77th Kraków Nativity Scene Contest. On Thursday 5 December , participants in the 77th Kraków Nativity...

Celestat, ul. Lubicz 16

The Situation Has Changed

During the 20th century, the world accelerated like never before and all aspects of our lives were revolutionised. Always striving to keep ahead of the collapse of social order, political turmoil...

The Main Building, al. 3 Maja 1

Watch Out! The Enemy Is Wiretapping You

What are numbers stations? What does music have in common with spying? How does the famous Enigma machine work? How has encryption affected the course of history? The exhibition at the Museum of...

Museum of Municipal Engineering, ul. św. Wawrzyńca 15

Here Comes Youth! First Krakow Group

“We represented the provinces – coarse, hungry, fervent, unspoiled by mannerisms and with no connections to the Cracovian Olympus,” Jonasz Stern recalls the activities of the...

The Feliks Jasieński Szołayski House, pl. Szczepański 9

Our Pope

Monday 16 October 1978 is forever etched in the memory of everyone who was emotionally involved with the election of the Kraków metropolitan bishop as the head of the Catholic Church. Over...

Muzeum JP II przy Sanktuarium św. Jana Pawła II, ul. Totus Tuus 30, Kraków

Józef Czapski: Paintings, Drawings, Journals

Self-portrait in the Mirror, Red Café, Still Life… Most of the paintings by Józef Czapski, held by the National Museum in Kraków, originate from the collection of Barbara...

The Emeryk Hutten-Czapski Museum , ul. Piłsudskiego 12

Fata Libelli: Destinies of Books and Their Owners

The Emeryk Hutten-Czapski Museum , ul. Piłsudskiego 12

Battle Which Didn’t Happen. On the 80th Anniversary of the Outbreak of Warld War II

At dawn on 1 September 1939, one of the first German bombs fell on the Rakowice-Czyżyny airfield near Kraków, marking the start of the war which would soon engulf Europe and beyond. During...

Oskar Schindler’s Enamel Factory, ul. Lipowa 4

Pompeii. Life and Death in the Shadow of Vesuvius

Although it happened almost two thousand years ago, the destruction of Pompeii remains one of the most shocking and evocative catastrophes in human history. Following the eruption of Vesuvius in 79...

Museum of Archaeology, ul. Poselska 3

Maurizio Buscarino. “Comedians!” Cricot 2 Theatre in Photos

The Italian photographer Maurizio Buscarino spent many years documenting the most important phenomena of contemporary theatre all over the globe. His vast archive of around twelve thousand photos...

Cricoteka Centre for Documentation of the Art of Tadeusz Kantor, ul. Nadwiślańska 2