All applied art museums to visit in Poland

Discover the beauty of functional art at 11 applied art museums in Poland. These museums highlight the intersection of art and utility, showcasing pieces that are both beautiful and practical.

Are you interested in the intersection of art and craftsmanship? These are the applied art museums you should visit in Poland:

  1. Stained Glass Museum1

    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
  2. National Museum in Warsaw2

    National Museum in Warsaw

     Warsaw
    The National Museum in Warsaw (Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie, MNW) is a national museum in Warsaw. It is one of the largest museums in Poland and the largest in Warsaw. The National Museum holds a collection of 11,000 pieces of ancient art (Egyptian, Greek and Roman), a gallery of Polish painting sinc
  3. Amber Museum3

    Amber Museum

     Gdańsk
    The Amber Museum in Gdańsk is the first museum in Poland solely devoted to amber. The museum holds a collection of exhibits related to amber that show amber in its natural state, methods of extraction, history of the trade routes, uses of amber in medicine, uses as a magical stone and as an artistic
  4. Central Museum of the Textile Industry4

    Central Museum of the Textile Industry

     Łódź
    The Central Museum of the Textile Industry (Central Museum of Textiles) is a museum on industry, art, design, fashion, history of the region, cultural anthropology, that holds a varied collection and is housed in the Ludwik Geyer's White Factory in Łódź. The collection consists of over 20,000 object
  5. National Museum in Kraków5

    National Museum in Kraków

     Kraków
    The National Museum in Kraków (MNK, Muzeum Narodowe w Krakowie) consists of 21 departments and holds about 780,000 art objects, spanning from classical archeology to modern art, with special focus on Polish painting. This main location houses three permanent galleries of the National Museum in Krako
  6. National Museum of Ethnography6

    National Museum of Ethnography

     Warsaw
    The National Museum of Ethnography (Państwowe Muzeum Etnograficzne w Warszawie) is a museum in Warsaw. The museum holds an extensive collection with various objects as well as folk art, costumes, crafts, sculptures, paintings and other art from Poland, Europe, Africa, Australia, Oceania and Latin an
  7. Museum of Architecture in Wrocław7

    Museum of Architecture in Wrocław

     Wrocław
    Museum of Architecture in Wroclaw is the only museum institution in Poland dedicated entirely to the history of architecture and contemporary architecture. Museum of Architecture in Wroclaw carries out programs and events for architects, historians and the general public. It prepares exhibitions on
  8. Museum of Japanese Art and Technology8

    Museum of Japanese Art and Technology

     Kraków
    Manggha (Museum of Japanese Art and Technology Manggha) is a museum in Krakow that opened in 1994 that holds and exhibits a collection that was donated in 1920 by critic, writer and collector of art, Feliks Jasieński, (nicknamed Manggha). The collection contained around 6,500 artworks connected with
  9. Poster Museum9

    Poster Museum

     Warsaw
    The Poster Museum is a museum in Warsaw that is housed at the Wilanów Palace complex. The Poster Musuem is founded in 1968, making it the world's oldest museum dedicated to posters. The Poster Museum is home to one of the largest collections of posters in the world. The collection of the museum cont
  10. Museum of Applied Arts10

    Museum of Applied Arts

     Poznań
    The Museum of Applied Arts in Poznań is part of the National Museum in Poznan and is situated on Przemysl Hill, housed in a castle. The museum holds collections of applied art from the Middle Ages until modern times. Its collection includes funiture, ceramics, glass and metal, weapons, jewellery, fa
  11. The Museum of Burgeois Art - Town Hall11

    The Museum of Burgeois Art - Town Hall

     Wrocław
    The Museum of Bourgeois Art is part of the City Museum of Wrocław and is housed in the Old Town Hall of Wrocław. The museum exhibits the interiors of the building and holds collections of works of art and handicrafts related to Wrocław. Its collection includes paintings, drawings and graphics from t