All history museums and attractions to visit in Kraków

Kraków (Poland) is a good place to visit if you are interested in history. Below we list all 38 history museums in Kraków, to lose yourself in the place's cultural heritage and local history.

Are you a real history buff and are you looking for the best history museums to visit in Kraków? These are the ones:

  1. Wawel Royal Castle1

    Wawel Royal Castle

     Kraków
    The Wawel Royal Castle National Art Collection is a significant part of the historic Wawel Castle in Kraków. This residence museum houses a vast collection of art, providing visitors with a glimpse into the rich history and culture of the region. The collection was officially inaugurated in 1930 and has been known by its current name since 1994.
  2. Oskar Schindler's Factory2

    Oskar Schindler's Factory

     Kraków
    Oskar Schindler's Factory (Fabryka Schindlera) is a museum dedicated to Krakow during the Nazi occupation between 1939 and 1945. It is one of the locations of the Historical Museum of the City of Krakow. The museum is named after Oskar Schindler, who owned the factory during the Second World War. Sc
  3. Kosciuszko Mound3

    Kosciuszko Mound

     Kraków
    Kościuszko Mound, located in Kraków, Poland, is an artificial mound built in honor of the Polish national leader, Tadeusz Kościuszko. This monument is a testament to the national pride and respect for the leader who played a significant role in Poland's history. Visitors can learn about the historical significance of this site and the person it commemorates.
  4. Rynek Underground4

    Rynek Underground

     Kraków
    The Rynek Underground (The underground square central museum) is a museum in Krakow that is a branch of the Historical Museum of the City of Krakow. The museum is located below the market square and covers an area of over 6,000. m². The main exhibition in the Rynek Underground are holograms construc
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    Lost Souls Alley

     Kraków
  6. Jagiellonian University Museum6

    Jagiellonian University Museum

     Kraków
    The Collegium Maius in Krakow is the Jagiellonian University's oldest building, that dates back to the 14th century. The Collegium Maius houses the Jagiellonian University Museum. The Collegium Maius was rebuilt in the late 15th century as a late-Gothic structure, where professors lived and worked a
  7. Stained Glass Museum7

    Stained Glass Museum

     Kraków
    The Stained Glass Museum is a musuem in Krakow that is dedicated to stained glass. The museum also includes a stained-glass workshop and is located in a historic tenement house. The Stained Glass Museum in Krakow's exhibition room is intertwined with the still functioning stained-glass workshop, mak
  8. Gallery of 19th-Century Polish Art in the Sukiennice8

    Gallery of 19th-Century Polish Art in the Sukiennice

     Kraków
    The Gallery of 19th-Century Polish Art at Sukiennice (Galeria Sztuki Polskiej XIX wieku w Sukiennicach), is a gallery that is housed on the upper floor of the Renaissance Sukiennice Cloth Hall in Kraków. In four large rooms, the Gallery of 19th-Century Polish Art in the Sukiennice holds and displays
  9. Galicia Jewish Museum9

    Galicia Jewish Museum

     Kraków
    The Galicia Jewish Museum (Żydowskie Muzeum Galicja) is a museum with a photo exhibition in Krakow that documents the remnants of Jewish culture and life in Polish Galicia. The main exhibition of the Galicia Jewish Museum commemorates the 800-year Jewish history through photographs of synagogues, ce
  10. Apteka pod Orlem - Ghetto Eagle Pharmacy Museum10

    Apteka pod Orlem - Ghetto Eagle Pharmacy Museum

     Kraków
    Apteka Pod Orłem (Pharmacy Under the Eagle) was the only pharmacy in the Krakow ghetto. The pharmacy was established in 1910 by Jozef Pankiewicz. During the Second World War the owner was his son Tadeusz Pankiewicz, the only Pole who lived within the boundaries of the ghetto, from the beginning to t
  11. Old Synagogue, Kraków11

    Old Synagogue, Kraków

     Kraków
    The Old Synagogue is an orthodox Jewish synagogue in Krakow. It is the oldest existing synagogue in Poland. Various sources mention 1407 and 1492 as the date of construction of the synagogue. The Old Synagogue was rebuilt, expanded and strengthened in 1570. The synagogue was ruined in the Second Wor
  12. Pharmacy Museum in Kraków12

    Pharmacy Museum in Kraków

     Kraków
    The Pharmacy Museum in Kraków (Muzeum Farmacji Collegium Medicum Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego) is a museum in Kraków that specializes in the history of pharmacy and pharmaceutical technology that was established in 1946. The museum is located on all five floors of the building, including the basemen
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    Krakow Pinball Museum

     Kraków
    The Krakow Pinball Museum is a museum in Krakow that holds and displays a alrge collection of flippers and video games dating back to the 1950s. Over 80 different games on around 300m2. The ticket price includes unlimited games on all machines.
  14. Etnographical Museum in Kraków14

    Etnographical Museum in Kraków

     Kraków
    The Ethnographic Museum of Kraków (Seweryn Udziela Ethnographic Museum in Krakow) is a museum in Kraków that was established in 1902. Currently, the museum has a collection of 8,000 items related to Polish and European history.
  15. Pomorska street Gestapo prison15

    Pomorska street Gestapo prison

     Kraków
    The Pomorska street in Krakow contained the headquarters of the Nazi Gestapo police during World War II (including the Gestapo prison). The Pomorska street Gestapo prison is now a museum that exhibits documents, archive material, photographs and various items related to a recent past of Poland and t
  16. Archdiocesan Museum16

    Archdiocesan Museum

     Kraków
    The Archdiocesan Museum in Krakow is located in the former residence of Cardinal Karol Wojtyła, who later became Pope John Paul II. The museum is situated in houses number 19 to 21 at Kanonicza Street. This location is not only significant for its historical value but also for its connection to one of the most influential figures in the Catholic Church.
  17. Museum of Municipal Engineering in Kraków17

    Museum of Municipal Engineering in Kraków

     Kraków
    The Museum of Municipal Engineering in Kraków (Muzeum Inżynierii Miejskiej w Krakowie) is a municipal museum that documents and popularizes the history of Kraków engineering, transport and technological progress. The museum features several buildings in which early trams, buses and motorcycles are e
  18. Home Army Museum18

    Home Army Museum

     Kraków
    The Home Army Museum (Muzeum Armii Krajowej) is a museum in Krakow that commemorate the struggle for independence by the underground Polish Secret State and its military arm Armia Krajowa, which is called The Home Army. This "army" was the largest resistance movement in occupied Europe during the se
  19. The Bishop Erazm Ciolek Palace - National Museum in Krakow19

    The Bishop Erazm Ciolek Palace - National Museum in Krakow

     Kraków
    The Bishop Erazm Ciolek Palace is a museum in Krakow and is a branch of the Krakow National Museum. The palace was built in 1505 from two connected houses for the Bishop of Płock, Erasmus Ciołek (1474-1522). The palace exhibits Polish works of art from the 12th to the 18th century. Valuable works in
  20. Archaeological Museum in Kraków20

    Archaeological Museum in Kraków

     Kraków
    The Archaeological Museum in Kraków is a historic museum that was established in 1850. The Archaeological Museum is divided into five major permanent exhibitions, namely: Gods of the Ancient Egypt, Prehistoric Pottery, The Garden of Ceramics, The Prehistory and Early Middle Ages of Lesser Poland, an
  21. The Archdiocesan Museum21

    The Archdiocesan Museum

     Kraków
    The Archdiocesan Museum of Cardinal Karol Wojtyla in Krakow is a museum in Krakow that is housed in tenement houses 19-21 at Kanonicza Street. Tenement house number 19 is called St. Stanisława, and the house at 21 is called Dean's House. The collection of the Archdiocesan Museum contains sacred art
  22. Jan Matejko House - Krakow National Museum22

    Jan Matejko House - Krakow National Museum

     Kraków
    The Jan Matejko House in Krakow is a museum dedicated to the painter Jan Matejko (1838-1893), who was born there and spent his whole life there. The house was built in the 16th century and was rebuilt several times after that. In 1872, Jan Matejko designed a new facade with the architect Tomasz Pryl
  23. The Hipolit House23

    The Hipolit House

     Kraków
    The Hipolit House is one of the branches of the Historical Museum of Krakow, located at the Mariacki Square in a two-story building. The museum houses a permanent exhibition called "A Bourgeois House" that shows how Cracovians lived from the 17th to the 19th century, with changing characteristics of
  24. Jozef Mehoffer House - National Museum in Krakow24

    Jozef Mehoffer House - National Museum in Krakow

     Kraków
    The Józef Mehoffer House ( Dom Józefa Mehoffera) is a museum in Krakow that is a branch of the Krakow National Museum. The museum is dedicated to the painter Józef Mehoffer (1869-1946). Stanisław Wyspiański was born in the house in 1869. The Mehoffer family also lived in the house in the post-war pe
  25. The Feliks Jasieński Szołayski House25

    The Feliks Jasieński Szołayski House

     Kraków
    The Szołayski house is a two-storey building in Krakow that houses a permanent exhibition devoted to Stanisław Wyspiański (a Polish playwright, painter and poet, as well as interior and furniture designer) and Feliks "Manggha" Jasieński (a Polish critic and art collector). The oldest part of the Szo
  26. Cricoteka26

    Cricoteka

     Kraków
    The Cricoteka (Center for the Documentation of the Art of Tadeusz Kantor) is a cultural institution founded in 1981 in Krakow, housed in a former power plant. It is dedicated to the Polish painter, assemblage and Happenings artist, set designer and theatre director Tadeusz Kantor. After his death, t
  27. Krzysztofory Palace - Historical Museum of Kraków27

    Krzysztofory Palace - Historical Museum of Kraków

     Kraków
    The Krzysztofory Palace is a small, baroque palace located on the main square of Kraków and is part of the Historical Museum of Krakow. In the 17th century, the Crown Court Marshal Adam Kazanowski commissioned the construction of the Krzysztofory Palace. It was named after St. Krzysztof, the patron
  28. Europeum Center of European Culture - National Museum in Krakow28

    Europeum Center of European Culture - National Museum in Krakow

     Kraków
    The Europeum Center of European Culture is a center in Krakow and a branch of the Krakow National Museum, located on two floors in a restored 17th century granary. The Europeum houses a permanent exhibition of European art, with more than 100 paintings and sculptures from 7 centuries of history of E
  29. Walery Rzewuski Museum of the History of Photography29

    Walery Rzewuski Museum of the History of Photography

     Kraków
    The Walery Rzewuski Museum of the History of Photography in Kraków is a photography museum in Kraków that aims to collect and popularize historical photographs. Besides its photograph exhibits and international symposiums, the Walery Rzewuski Museum of the History of Photography holds a collection o
  30. The Barbican30

    The Barbican

     Kraków
    The Barbican is a Barbican (fortified outpost) that is located in the Planty city park in Krakow. It is one of the few remaining parts of the Krakow defenses and gave access to the Florian's Gate. It was built in Gothic style in 1498 and 1499, when John I Albert reigned. The round building has a cou
  31. City Defence Walls31

    City Defence Walls

     Kraków
  32. Celestat32

    Celestat

     Kraków
    The Celestat is a musuem in Krakow that is dedicated to the history of the Cracovian Fowler Brotherhood of hunters and marksmen. The museum holds and displays a collection that includes oil paintings, guns, teapots, photographs and other relics related to its history.
  33. Zwierzyniec House33

    Zwierzyniec House

     Kraków
    The Zwierzyniec House is a branch of the Krakow Historical Museum. The museum houses an exhibition that illustrates the history of creativity of artists from Zvezhynets. Furthermore, the museum illustrates the changes that have taken place in the former suburbs of Krakow since their incorporation in
  34. Cross House34

    Cross House

     Kraków
    The Cross House (Dom pod Krzyżem) is a historic-architectural building in Krakow that houses the Stanislav Wyspianski Theater Museum, which is a branch of the Krakow Historical Museum. In 2008, a permanent exhibition was closed due to the necessary renovation of the building, conservation of exhibit
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    Executioner Museum

     Kraków
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    Museum of Ancient Art - National Museum in Krakow

     Kraków
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    The Podgórze Museum

     Kraków
    The Podgórze Museum is a museum in Krakow that illustrates the history of the Podgórze district. The museum presents a permanent exhibition "A Brief History of the City of Podgórze", which includes exhibits such as the 19th-century desk of the mayors of Podgórze and the insignia of the City Council
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    Muzeum Tortur Kraków

     Kraków