Kraków
Museums in Kraków
Krakow's museums lean heavily toward twentieth century history, with the Oskar Schindler Enamel Factory in Podgorze and the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial outside the city drawing the largest crowds. Beneath the Main Market Square, the Rynek Underground traces the medieval town through excavated foundations, while the Czartoryski Museum holds one of Poland's most important art collections and MOCAK covers the contemporary end. The range runs from ancient trade routes to living artists, so it helps to pick by theme rather than try to cover everything.
All Museums in Kraków
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Rynek Underground
An atmospheric archaeology museum beneath the Main Square, walking you through the medieval market on its original cobbles.
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Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial
The preserved site of the largest German Nazi concentration and extermination camp, now a memorial and museum to its victims, west of Krakow.
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Oskar Schindler's Enamel Factory
The wartime enamelware factory, now a museum about Krakow under German occupation from 1939 to 1945.
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Czartoryski Museum
Home to Leonardo da Vinci's "Lady with an Ermine", the star of Poland's oldest museum collection.
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MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art
Poland's leading contemporary-art museum, built beside the Schindler factory in Podgorze.