Museum of Architecture in Wroclaw is the only museum institution in Poland dedicated entirely to the history of architecture and contemporary architecture. The institution is organized by the Municipality of Wroclaw. Museum carries out programs andevents for architects, historians and the general public. It preparesexhibitions on architecture, applied art, painting and graphics. Most of the...

The collection of the National Museum in Wrocław numbers 200,000 artefacts representative for all the artistic disciplines, from mediaeval Silesian sculpture in stone and wood, Silesian, Polish and European painting, as well as contemporary and modernist sculpture, drawings and prints, to an extensive collection of historical artistic craftsmanship which spans the period from the Middle Ages...

The Museum of Post and Telecommunications in Wroclaw is the only museum institution in Poland collecting and protecting monuments constituting a certificate of postal activity in Poland, including Poczta Polska founded by King Sigismund Augustus in 1558. The museum, established in 1921 in Warsaw, from 1956 is located in the historic building of the Main Post Office in Wrocław. The museum...

Krupa Art Foundation is a new, independent contemporary art institution established by Sylwia and Piotr Krupa – Wrocław-based businesspeople and art collectors. The foundation is a non-profit organisation that proposes a new model for the functioning of cultural institutions in Poland, based primarily on private patronage. The mission of Krupa Art Foundation is to share art with a wide...

The Museum of Natural History, Wroclaw University, is the largest institution of this kind in Poland. It came into existence in 1814. Its collections comprise numerous unique specimens of extinct and rare species such as the Great Auk (Alca impennis), Passenger Pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius), Carolina Parakeet (Conuropsis carolinensis), Huia (Heteralocha acutirostris) or Marsupial...

Pan Tadeusz Museum is the latest and the most modern part of the Ossolineum, exhibiting collections of the Institute on the rich historical and literary background. It was opened to public in May 2016 in one of the most beautiful tenement houses in Wrocław – Under the Golden Sun (Rynek 6). This unique, modern Museum tells the story of an extraordinary book – perhaps the last one known (in...

The new space named OP ENHEIM will be created in an extraordinary, baroque tenement at Plac Solny in Wrocław, the European Capital of Culture 2016. The historical Oppenheims House will hold the exhibition hall, a multifunctional conference hall with a terrace, catering, ‘artist-in-residence’ apartment and offices. It is planned to make the tenement available for the inhabitants of Wrocław and...

The present seat of the Ethnographic Museum (since October 2004), once a summer residence of the bishops of Wrocław, is located in Traugutta Street. The palace was erected by Cardinal Philipp Ludwig von Sinzendorf in the grounds of the country estate of the Wrocław bishopric, in the 16th century known as the White Grange (Ger. Weisses Vorverk). The construction, designed by Christopher...

The idea of painting the Panorama of the Battle of Racławice, a huge canvas measuring 15 × 114 m, came from Jan Styka (1858–1925) – a well-known artist from Lwów (now Lviv in Ukraine) who invited to a collaboration on this project the excellent painter of battle scenes Wojciech Kossak (1856–1942). They were assisted in that work by other artists: Ludwig Boller, Tadeusz Popiel, Zygmunt...

On 25 June 2016 The Four Domes Pavilion, a modernist building designed by the distinguished architect Hanz Poelzig and erected in 1912, became the seat of the Museum of Contemporary Art, a branch of the National Museum in Wrocław. This building, and the nearby Centennial Hall designed by Max Berg, are the two architectural elements dominating the so-called Exhibition Grounds. This unique...