Historical Museum of Kraków

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Historical Museum of Kraków
National museum
ManagerPiotr Hapanowicz
DirectorMichał Niezabitowski [pl]
CuratorPiotr Hapanowicz
Public transit accessMiejskie Przedsiębiorstwo Komunikacyjne w Krakowie [pl] how to get there, see external links
Websitehttp://mhk.pl/

The Historical Museum of the City of Kraków (Polish: Muzeum Historyczne Miasta Krakowa) in Kraków, Lesser Poland, was granted the status of an independent institution in 1945. Originally, it was a branch of the Old Records Office of Kraków, in operation from 1899.[1]

The museum's main location is the baroque Krzysztofory Palace.

Organization

Exhibition inside the museum

The Historical Museum is made up of 14 divisions scattered around the city, including its main branch as well as

Main Market Square tunnels. The divisions preserve and display artifacts of the history of the city, the history of Jews, the history of the theatre and many others.[2]

The museum holdings include sixteenth through twentieth century

Polish uprisings of the nineteenth century and of World War I and II
.

The museum houses a permanent exhibit of the History and Culture of Kraków, a collection of the militaria (

Main Market Square
is the venue of the Photographs of the Market Square exhibition.

Since 1999, under the museum's jurisdiction is the

Barbakan
, one of the best known examples of medieval defense structures in Poland, whose interior is made accessible to tourists each summer.

Portrait of Mikołaj Zyblikiewicz by Wojciech Stattler, at the Historical Museum of Kraków

Museum branches

Main branch location at:
Main Market Square
(Rynek Główny) 35, Kraków
  • The Old Synagogue
    (permanent exhibition: The history and Culture of Jews in Kraków)
  • Oskar Schindler's Factory (permanent exhibition: Kraków – the time of occupation 1939–1945)
  • The Eagle Pharmacy
    (permanent exhibition: Tadeusz Pankiewicz's Pharmacy in Kraków Ghetto)
  • Pomorska Museum, Gestapo prison (permanent exhibition: Cracovians against terror 1939-1945-1956)
  • The Hipolit House (permanent exhibition: Bourgeois house)
  • Town Hall Tower
  • Barbakan
    )
  • City Defensive Walls
    (temporary exhibition: Defence route Defence Walls - Barbakan - Celestat)
  • Celestat (permanent exhibition: Brotherhood of the Rooster in Kraków and City defence)
  • The History of the Nowa Huta Quarter (temporary exhibition - about Nowa Huta)[3]
  • The Zwierzyniec House
  • Rynek Underground (permanent exhibition: Following the traces of European identity of Kraków)
  • The Cross House (under renovation as of March 2008 - closed)
  • Thesaurus Cracoviensis
  • The Podgórze Museum (permanent exhibition: In the Shadow of Krak's Mound)
  • KL Plaszow (temporary exhibition: Former KL Plaszow)

See also

References

  1. ^ Museum's History at the Museum's Home page (in Polish)
  2. ^ Marek Strzala, Krakow's Premier Museums
  3. PRL
    Museum at os. Centrum E 1.

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