Editing Kraków (section)

=== Museums and national art galleries ===
[[File:Entrance Lobby of the National Museum in Kraków, 2022.jpg|thumb|left|The [[National Museum, Kraków|National Museum]] in Kraków is one of Poland's finest galleries of art.]]

{{As of|2023}}, Kraków hosts approximately 82 museums and various museum branches; the city also has a number of art collections and public art galleries.<ref name="Heritage Team">{{cite web |url=https://krakowheritage.com/en/intangible-heritage/media-arts/museums/ |title=Museums |author=Heritage Team |date=2023 |website=krakowheritage.com |access-date=2 February 2024 |archive-date=2 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240202152109/https://krakowheritage.com/en/intangible-heritage/media-arts/museums/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The [[National Museum in Kraków|National Museum]], established in 1879, as well as the National Art Collection on Wawel Hill, are all accessible to the general public.<ref name="Heritage Team"/>

The Royal Chambers at Wawel feature art, period furniture, Polish and European paintings, collectibles, and a major collection of 16th-century monumental [[Flemish people|Flemish]] [[tapestries]].<ref name="Heritage Team"/> Wawel Treasury and Armoury features Polish royal memorabilia, jewels, applied art, and 15th- to 18th-century arms.<ref name="Heritage Team"/> The Wawel Eastern Collection features [[Ottoman tents|Turkish tents]] and military accessories.<ref name="Heritage Team"/> The National Museum holds the largest body of artworks in the country with collections consisting of several hundred thousand items kept mostly in the Main Building at 3&nbsp;Maja Street, although there are eleven other separate divisions of the museum in the city, one of the most popular being the [[Sukiennice Museum|Gallery of 19th Century Polish Art at Sukiennice]] which houses a collection of some of the best-known paintings and sculptures of the [[Young Poland]] movement.<ref name="Heritage Team"/> Inaugurated in 2013, the latest division of the National Museum is the ''[[EUROPEUM – European Culture Centre|Europeum]]'', with works by [[Pieter Brueghel the Younger|Brueghel]] among a hundred Western European paintings.<ref name="mkidn.gov.pl">{{cite web |url=http://www.mkidn.gov.pl/pages/posts/otwarcie-europeum-ndash-osrodek-kultury-europejskiej-nowego-oddzialu-muzeum-narodowego-w-krakowie-4081.php |title=Otwarcie Europeum – Ośrodek Kultury Europejskiej nowego oddziału Muzeum Narodowego w Krakowie |publisher=Ministerstwo Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego |date=13 September 2013 |access-date=10 July 2014 |author=Ministry of Culture |trans-title=Centre of European Culture, new branch of National Museum opened |author-link=Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (Poland) |archive-date=10 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210410171206/http://www.mkidn.gov.pl/pages/posts/otwarcie-europeum-ndash-osrodek-kultury-europejskiej-nowego-oddzialu-muzeum-narodowego-w-krakowie-4081.php }}</ref>

[[File:Krakow - Congress Centre from balloon - 1.jpg|thumb|Kraków Congress Centre, the city's business and cultural flagship]]

Other notable museums in Kraków include the [[Manggha]] Museum of Japanese Art and Technology (at M. Konopnickiej 26),<ref name="Wyspiański"/> [[Stanisław Wyspiański]] Museum (at 11 Szczepanska St),<ref name="Wyspiański"/> [[Jan Matejko Manor House]] in Krzesławice,<ref name="Matejko"/> the [[Emeryk Hutten-Czapski Museum]], devoted to the master painter and his life,<ref name="Czapski"/> and [[Józef Mehoffer]] Manor.<ref name="Wyspiański"/>

The [[Rynek Underground]] museum, situated under the city's main square, showcases Kraków's more than 1,000-year history through its streets, activities and artifacts. The construction of the museum was preceded by extensive excavations starting in 2005,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://podziemiarynku.com/index.php?dzial=oszlaku&tekst=1|title=Szlak turystyczny po podziemiach Rynku Głównego w Krakowie.|website=podziemiarynku.com|access-date=25 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161229155832/http://podziemiarynku.com/index.php?dzial=oszlaku&tekst=1|archive-date=29 December 2016}}</ref> and continuing eventually until 2010, as more and more physical evidence was uncovered.

Krakil, the Museum of illusions, is a space where illusions are combined with scientific inventions and the arts. Physics and optics are displayed together with artworks and classical riddles.<ref name="Laskowska">{{cite web |url=https://turystyka.wp.pl/najciekawsze-muzea-iluzji-w-polsce-moze-sie-w-nich-zakrecic-w-glowie-6865052260440672a |title=Najciekawsze muzea iluzji w Polsce. Może się w nich zakręcić w głowie |last=Laskowska |first=Karolina |date=2023 |website=wp.pl |access-date=2 February 2024 |language=pl |archive-date=2 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240202150950/https://turystyka.wp.pl/najciekawsze-muzea-iluzji-w-polsce-moze-sie-w-nich-zakrecic-w-glowie-6865052260440672a |url-status=live }}</ref>

The [[Polish Aviation Museum]], considered one of the world's best aviation museums by [[CNN]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/best-aviation-museums/index.html |title=20 best aviation museums around the world |last1=Drescher |first1=Cynthia |last2=Hinson |first2=Tamara |last3=Donaldson |first3=Tara |website=[[edition.cnn.com]] |date=28 December 2018 |access-date=17 March 2024 |archive-date=9 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240509075104/https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/best-aviation-museums/index.html |url-status=live }}</ref> features over 200 aircraft including a [[Sopwith Camel]] among other First World War biplanes, a comprehensive display of aero engines, and a complete collection of airplane types developed by Poland after 1945.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.muzeumlotnictwa.pl/aktualnosci_archiwum.php?id=102|website=muzeumlotnictwa.pl|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130629043631/http://www.muzeumlotnictwa.pl/aktualnosci_archiwum.php?id=102|title=Announcements on the Polish Aviation Museum website|archive-date=29 June 2013}}</ref> Activities of smaller museums around Kraków and in the Lesser Poland region are promoted and supported by the [[Małopolska Institute of Culture]], which organises annual Małopolska Heritage Days.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.warsawvoice.pl/WVpage/pages/articlePrint.php/5774/article |title= Małopolska Cultural Heritage Days |last= Gajewska |first= Edyta |website = [[The Warsaw Voice]] |access-date= 23 December 2014 |archive-date= 22 December 2014 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20141222213104/http://www.warsawvoice.pl/WVpage/pages/articlePrint.php/5774/article |url-status= dead}}</ref>