Muzeum Krakowa, oddział Fabryka Emalia Oskara Schindlera

Muzeum Krakowa, oddział Fabryka Emalia Oskara Schindlera

Muzeum Krakowa, oddział Fabryka Emalia Oskara Schindlera
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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Monday
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Tuesday
9:00 AM - 8:00 PM
Wednesday
9:00 AM - 8:00 PM
Thursday
9:00 AM - 8:00 PM
Friday
9:00 AM - 8:00 PM
Saturday
9:00 AM - 8:00 PM
Sunday
9:00 AM - 8:00 PM
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Exhibition Kraków under Nazi Occupation 1939–1945 is located in the former administrative building of Oskar Schindler’s Enamel Factory at 4 Lipowa Street. The exhibition is primarily a story about Kraków and its inhabitants, both Polish and Jewish, during World War Two. It is also a story about Nazi Germans – the occupiers who arrived here on 6 September 1939, brutally disrupting Kraków’s centuries-long history of Polish-Jewish relations. Due to high popularity of the museum, pre-booking is required.
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  • AMEX x
    United Kingdom69 contributions
    A must visit
    We had this high up on our to do list and it did not disappoint. We had tried to visit on the Tuesday however it was closed for a 'technical day'? We did return on Thursday and got tickets without issue, absolutely no queue at all. The museum is more centred around Krakow during the war and life under Nazi occupation, with very informative and well displayed exhibits. We were impressed by the number of original exhibits, from documents, pictures and items from the era. The only slight issue is the layout and size of the museum. We just got private tickets to walk and explore at our own pace, however the sheer number of large guided tour groups meant often corridors were rammed full of different groups, often themselves unable to stand in the same area/corridor as their own guide. We spent around 2 hours there which seemed enough, overall a brilliant museum and well worth the entry price, a must visit to fully appreciate Krakow during WW2.
    Visited March 2020
    Traveled as a couple
    Written March 5, 2020
  • rodneym
    Yorkshire, United Kingdom110 contributions
    Allow plenty of time - good for a rainy day
    Have never been to a museum with so much to see, its bordering on overload. Despite the location it covers an almost weekly history of Krakow during the war-time period, with the purely Schindler specific exhibits limited to a smaller number of rooms. With the MOCAK modern art museum next door, the Ghetto heroes square, ghetto wall, Krakus mound and Plaszow monuments all walk-able (latter two are a bit further away) there is very full day of stuff to do in this part of town (NB if you are a wheelchair user or have other mobility issues i would check in advance as there were lots of levels to the museum and a couple of rooms had floor surfaces which might not be suitable). Overall it has an incredible array of exhibits. Related to Covid you need to book a ticket in advance, and the website list these as 'tours', which initially confused us on arrival as is a time slot (rather than a guided tour) but very reasonable at 26 zloty per person given that you could spend many hours here if you read everything in detail and watched all the videos.
    Visited August 2020
    Written September 8, 2020
  • Roger G
    Herefordshire, United Kingdom42 contributions
    Very good experience
    We didn’t know what to expect visiting Schindler’s factory museum and it was definitely worth visiting. Whilst it clearly centres on the amazing work of Schindler it is also an excellent tour of what actually happened in Krakow, the ghettos and the awful atrocities committed by the Nazis. It takes about 90 minutes to walk thru the displays and you need to book in advance as they only allow a certain amount of people inside the tour at each hour. If you are in Krakow then you should visit this place if you do nothing else.
    Visited February 2020
    Traveled as a couple
    Written February 8, 2020
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AMEX x
United Kingdom69 contributions
Mar 2020 • Couples
We had this high up on our to do list and it did not disappoint. We had tried to visit on the Tuesday however it was closed for a 'technical day'? We did return on Thursday and got tickets without issue, absolutely no queue at all.
The museum is more centred around Krakow during the war and life under Nazi occupation, with very informative and well displayed exhibits. We were impressed by the number of original exhibits, from documents, pictures and items from the era. The only slight issue is the layout and size of the museum. We just got private tickets to walk and explore at our own pace, however the sheer number of large guided tour groups meant often corridors were rammed full of different groups, often themselves unable to stand in the same area/corridor as their own guide.
We spent around 2 hours there which seemed enough, overall a brilliant museum and well worth the entry price, a must visit to fully appreciate Krakow during WW2.
Written March 5, 2020
This review is the subjective opinion of a Tripadvisor member and not of Tripadvisor LLC. Tripadvisor performs checks on reviews as part of our industry-leading trust & safety standards. Read our transparency report to learn more.

rodneym
Yorkshire, UK110 contributions
Aug 2020
Have never been to a museum with so much to see, its bordering on overload. Despite the location it covers an almost weekly history of Krakow during the war-time period, with the purely Schindler specific exhibits limited to a smaller number of rooms. With the MOCAK modern art museum next door, the Ghetto heroes square, ghetto wall, Krakus mound and Plaszow monuments all walk-able (latter two are a bit further away) there is very full day of stuff to do in this part of town (NB if you are a wheelchair user or have other mobility issues i would check in advance as there were lots of levels to the museum and a couple of rooms had floor surfaces which might not be suitable). Overall it has an incredible array of exhibits. Related to Covid you need to book a ticket in advance, and the website list these as 'tours', which initially confused us on arrival as is a time slot (rather than a guided tour) but very reasonable at 26 zloty per person given that you could spend many hours here if you read everything in detail and watched all the videos.
Written September 8, 2020
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Roger G
Herefordshire, UK42 contributions
Feb 2020 • Couples
We didn’t know what to expect visiting Schindler’s factory museum and it was definitely worth visiting. Whilst it clearly centres on the amazing work of Schindler it is also an excellent tour of what actually happened in Krakow, the ghettos and the awful atrocities committed by the Nazis. It takes about 90 minutes to walk thru the displays and you need to book in advance as they only allow a certain amount of people inside the tour at each hour. If you are in Krakow then you should visit this place if you do nothing else.
Written February 9, 2020
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Katherine Patri... P
Worcestershire, UK196 contributions
Jan 2020
Definitely worth a visit if you’re in Krakow. Walking takes about 25 mins from the old town or the city tours drop off there too. If you want a guided tour I would definitely advise booking beforehand otherwise you can just pay and walk the exhibition yourselves. Very interesting museum.
Written January 26, 2020
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Ed
Stratford-upon-Avon, UK100 contributions
Jan 2020 • Friends
This is a large museum charged at a low entry fee. The museum provides the history of the Nazi occupation of the city. The displays are imaginatively done with good use of sound and texture.

A worthwhile visit if you are interested in the topic. Note that there is very little on Schindler himself.
Written January 26, 2020
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escort789
Dalton-in-Furness, UK562 contributions
Jan 2020 • Couples
The first day we arrived and was put in the Q and waited over an hour with a sign placed behind us to say that tickets had sold out and a lovely well spoken lass having to tell people that their journey had been wasted, we felt quite lucky till we got to the tills to be told there were no more tickets for the day unless we had pre booked our tickets or had a Krackow visitors pass so if visiting at busy times like we were New Years Eve please make alternative plans than just turning up unless like our next visit we arrived at 8.45 and gain admission. The idea of selling tickets like this is a good idea as it gets busy and it avoids overcrowding in the museum. Anyway to the point the factory is about how the lives were lived before war broke out and how the Ghetto was formed and the selection of Jews/ gypsies etc. There is a lot of reading on the information walls throughout the factory getting to the part of how Schindler’s factory was formed. We found the history and the overall layout throughout the museum excellent how it was all laid out and the information and photos and videos were superb. We feel we wished we had visited the museum first before Auschwitz, but that is our personal choice just soo glad we visited. There is no factory anymore just a few rooms that hold old artefacts that were salvaged after the factory was taken over and a part of machinery on the entrance and again lots to read throughout the rooms , but don’t let put you off visiting as it a must if visiting Krackow. I suggest in watching the film Schindler’s list before visiting and allow 2-3 hours to absorb all the information of the tour.
Written January 4, 2020
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ivanzghr
Cork, Ireland43 contributions
Jul 2020 • Couples
We took a tour with Walkative which lasts usually 90 mins. Museum is very interesting although topic is Kraków during German occupation. Very few things about the factory and Schindler. We were expecting more about the factory and what was going on here, together with seeing actual factory. Nevertheless, you can hear interesting things about the city, it’s people and events which took place between 1939 and 1945.
Minus in this tour was 90 mins time window. This is not enough and my suggestion to Walkative is to increase that to minimum 2 hours with the same price. On the tour we took it was only two of us and we went over 90 mins, but still there wasn’t much time to ask questions or to get into short discussions with the tour guide. Imagine if there were more than 2 people in the group.
I believe that for this price you should get at least 2 hours in the museum.
Written July 26, 2020
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Devin S
Adelaide, Australia17 contributions
Jan 2020 • Couples
This museum was the biggest disappointment of Krakow stay. I became interested in visiting the factory after hearing about it and reading the Oskara Schindler story online. I was expecting to see preserved sections of the factory, displays of living conditions / working conditions / life at the factory, information on what Oskara did for the people of Krakow, explanations of how he mamaged to save over 1000 lives and exhibits which provide educational insight.

To my great disappointment the factory has been entirely modified and the museum display is primarily a series of narrow corridors containing random photos, artifacts, displays and documents of the war in Poland as A whole. I'm not trying to say these items and the information is of little importance but rather it is not related to the factory or Oskara schindler. There is a very tiny section of the museum which is some recreation of what schindlers office may have looked like and there is a glass cabinet full of pots and pans presumably made at the factory. Aside from this there is very little to do with the factory itself.

To review the exhibit as what it is (ignoring what I was expecting) I would say;
.large tour groups come through the narrow coridoors regularly, blocking displays and killing your experience by talking loudly in varied languages
.the museum does not flow well and the intentions are unclear
.There is alot of information but poorly presented, the majority of it is random printed paragraphs on the coridoor walls. It feels more like a noisy crowded library than a museum
.The artifact displays are placed randomly through these coridoors, many of them have descriptions but some completely lack supporting information
.The intention of some displays is completely unknown to me (random dinner tables with plastic food, pretend cell doors, random office equipment placed here and there etc) just seemed like a waste of space and time

I'm very interested in WW2 history but my advice is save yourself the time, money and frustration by simply doing some research online. The building and artifacts are of little or no significance due to the poor design and lack off fluidity.
Written January 9, 2020
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VikkiBee
Houghton-le-Spring, UK644 contributions
Oct 2019 • Friends
I actually visited in October 2019, however due to travelling all over the world for the last 12 months, I am just in the process of writing all the reviews. We decided to take a guided tour of this museum which was fantastic! You could visit the museum without the tour as there’s plenty of information to read at your own pace however I felt we got a lot more information about the history and factory as a whole by choosing the guided tour and the facts were definitely brought to life more. Our tour guide, Lucy, was very knowledgeable and answered all the question the group had. The museum includes timed visits so we did have a wait a short while before entering but once inside, we could take as much time as we wanted with Lucy’s guidance. The museum is definitely worth a visit and I would thoroughly enjoyed the guided tour so I would recommend this 100%.
Written February 11, 2020
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CeanCe
35 contributions
Feb 2020
If you want to visit here best to book tickets in advance as they limit numbers entering and that includes prebooks. It’s more an exhibition of bits of artefacts and mainly excerpts from people’s letters. It does give a clearer picture of the separation of the Jewish people into the ghetto and is informative on how horrendously they were eventually treated in this place. Oscar Schindler has only a small part in this exhibition with not much info. It’s worth a visit from the point of view of actually physically being in a place of history. Not really suitable for young children.. too much reading.
Written February 18, 2020
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