Art Museums in Krakow

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Art Museums in Krakow

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  • ABQJane
    Budapest, Hungary159 contributions
    Gabrysia, our guide, has such passion for the art that she really made the tour outstanding! She explained the process and different techniques used to achieve the final results. It was very interesting to see a relatively small workshop turning out such incredible projects! The pieces in the museum section were beautiful and amazing examples of pieces from 100 years ago.
    Written August 11, 2023
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  • Max e
    49 contributions
    Great experience, relaxing atmosphere and the art is all interesting, weird or sometimes powerful. Worth doing when in Krakow. Also right next door to Schindler’s factory so can do 2 in 1 visit
    Written July 19, 2023
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  • Gary S
    United Kingdom85 contributions
    A beautiful place. The exhibitions were brilliant and I would recommend the audio guide.

    Leonardo Da Vinci’s Lady with Ermine was stunning.

    The only issues I had which meant it was not 5* was:

    1 - cafe / restaurant was snooty and lack of choice on menu.
    2 - gift shop lacking.
    Written November 24, 2022
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  • Sylvia
    15 contributions
    Fantastic to visit for adults and children. Great place for selfie lovers. Positive and happy place. You can feel like a kid again and just have fun. Very helpful staff.
    Written August 10, 2023
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  • Bini P
    London, UK128 contributions
    Overall it was good. I enjoyed the second floor much more with arts & paintings as the first floor is mainly for old artifacts and history. They also do temporary exhibitions which you will need to pay extra if you want to see it. There is free cloakroom which ia handy especially if you are visiting in winter season as inside meusum it is quite warm. Definitely have a visit and see if you are into history and arts.
    Written December 7, 2022
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  • Andy B
    Krakow, Poland131 contributions
    This gallery in the heart of Krakow old town, i.e. on the south side of the Rynek main square, has as its name suggests small international exhibitions, currently 3 months of Hungarian Art Nouveau Ceramics. Previously for example there was Max Ernst, Scandinavian folk craft, and then others of that ilk.
    Written June 26, 2017
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  • Patrick_B
    6 contributions
    When we asked if they have any food for children she replied i a rude manner that she does not feel like helping us choose.
    Written April 22, 2019
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Has anyone done both tours before?
Do you think the former is worth doing?

I have done the tour with a guide - so i guess techncially i have gone on the "General tour 3.5h" or something similar, but i am only at Auschwitz 1 for 1.5h, and then we rushed to Auschwitz 2-Birkenau for 1h. i recently went on a organized tour from Krakow bc i couldnt secure guided tour ticket at the last minute from the website. but i think my guide may a person in training (?) cos he was guiding us with an Auschwitz educator standing beside him all the time. I still couldnt figure out whether he is a new guide in training within Auschwitz, or he needs to be chaperoned bc he is a guide hired from the 'outside' (ie not someone hired by the Aushcwitz site). I am inclined to believe it is the latter, but not sure, so would appreciate anyone with better insights. So this means there could be 2 diff guides - one is a tour agency guide from the outside, and another is a Auschwitz educator guide?
Answer: for future readers - I did the 6 hour tour and it is a better pace,smaller group and you visit a few more places in the camps. Our guide was very good. Worthwhile if you have more than a passing interest in the history. We were at Auschwitz for 3 hours and birkenau for 2.25 hours. Crowds were smaller that day so we didn’t have to stop to wait for other groups. I then returned to Auschwitz around 4pm to walk through on my own and to visit some of the country specific exhibits - Hungary’s exhibit is especially good. In order to return to camp 1, I purchased free tickets ahead of time since you have to renter the queue.

Tour vs self guided - 100% go on a tour. The guides paint a more complete picture than you will get from a guidebook. You can arrive early if you want to see birkenau before it gets crowded and walk on your own. No ticket is required to visit birkenau.

Auschwitz vs birkenau - you want to see both. Auschwitz is more intact and has almost all of the exhibits. The exhibits of luggage,eyeglasses, shoes, and human hair is overwhelming. Birkenau is 25x the size of Auschwitz camp 1. Many buildings were destroyed but you can get a better feel for the scale of the genocide. Even with most buildings destroyed you get a chill realizing how people were sorted and put to death. Many times within hours of arrival.

Krakow ghetto - to round out your experience walk through the ghetto and Jewish quarter. Visit the synagogues. Realize the size of the Jewish community that thrived in this area and then 90% of them were killed.

Last - learn about the history that led up to the holocaust. Hitler did not rise up in a vacuum. There were 20 years of anti-semitism that occurred before the death camps. The nazis were very good at isolating Jews, cutting them off from day to day community and business involvement and then eventually shipped them off to forced labor and death. Awareness of that history will help prevent this from ever happening again.
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