The Nights of Museums are events in which the inhabitants of Kraków have been willing to participate for years. Last year’s night sightseeing was foiled by a pandemic, this year the Night of Museums will take place, but in a different formula than before. Queues standing late at night to see the museum collections, that is something that we will definitely not see.
When will it happen?
The 17th Night of Museums is scheduled for Friday, May 21, and 37 institutions will take part in it, while the tour will be hybrid, some institutions will invite visitors to their premises, others will only make museum spaces available online. This year’s sightseeing night will take place during the day, during the museum’s regular opening hours, some institutions, such as the Museum of Municipal Engineering, the Polish Aviation Museum, or the Museum of the Academy of Fine Arts, have announced that they will extend their working hours.
This year: no free tours – symbolic fee
This year, most museums do not provide free tours on Museum Night, admission to most of them is paid, although in many institutions it will be a symbolic fee. In addition, all museums require prior registration and reservations, they are available on the websites of institutions participating in the Night of Museums.
The program includes permanent and temporary exhibitions, making available unique places that are normally inaccessible to visitors, as well as special attractions: workshops, multimedia presentations, shows and guided tours.
What will you be able to see?
“All the king’s tapestries. Returns 2021–1961–1921 “, Crown Treasury,” Eastern Art. Turkish tents “,” Cranach at Wawel “, Smocza, Ogrody – (paid PLN 1 for each exhibition) are waiting for visitors at Wawel
The Princes Czartoryski Museum, open after renovation, has prepared a temporary exhibition” Royal Portraits – Vases “
Contemporary Art Gallery” Bunkier Sztuki ” ”Proposes a new exhibition dedicated to the memory of Krzysztof Penderecki,“ Score and Garden. Music in the face of the image, the garden in the face of music “(admission fee 2 PLN) available in its temporary seat on the Main Market Square 20.
In turn, the International Cultural Center invites you to the newly opened exhibition” Not only Bauhaus. Interwar German photography and Polish traces ”.
Until the evening hours, you will be able to visit the greenhouses and the Museum of the Botanical Garden in which they are located. incl. 19th and 20th century teaching aids for learning botany (admission PLN 1).
In the Garden of Experiences Stanisław Lem, which on that day will be open until At 10 pm, in the evening, there are planned element burning shows (“Colorful Flames”) and visualization of the sound wave with gas flames.
Online you can go to the Stary Theater Museum and the Jagiellonian University Museum Collegium Maius.
Newly added to the collection…
For the first time, the Museum Night will be attended by the newly established Museum – KL Plaszow Memorial Site in Krakow. German Nazi labor and concentration camps (1942–1945) (in organization), which invites you to thematic tours around KL Plaszow.
The detailed program of the 17th Night of Museums is available on the website krakowskienoce.pl
Recent Comments