Muzeum Krakowa

About

The HMuseum of Krakow is a municipal museum. Councillors of Krakow decided already in 19th century to take an effort to create city's own historical museum. The first discussions on creating museum, which could gather city's memorabilia started in the 1860's. Organized by City Council in 1890 Archive of Old Acts for Krakow City started to gather the collection, and raised in 1897 Society of Krakow's History and Monuments Amateurs endorsed museum organization initiative. The Archive employees such as professor Stanislaw Krzyzanowski and Adam Chmiel PhD participated in creation of collection for future Historical Museum. The collection contained iconographic materials of Krakow, portraits of celebrities and famous citizens, graphics, historical items and documents related to guilds' activities, stamps, numismatics and medal, weaponry and other material culture elements, related to Krakow's history.

At a glance

• Typical visit: about 1 hour 30 minutes