Polish History and Culture

Archives of Contemporary Art from the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw

Digital Library of the National Museum in Krakow

Digitization of the National Museum in Warsaw

Film library of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw

Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow MOCAK

The National Museum in Gdańsk belongs to the oldest museums in Poland. It was created from the merger of two institutions - the City Museum (1870) and the Museum of Arts and Crafts (1881). The main core of the museum collections is the collection of Jacob Kabrun (1759-1814) consisting of several thousand paintings, drawings and engravings of European masters from the end of the 15th to the beginning of the 19th century.

The Museum was established by the Polish Country Lovers Society in 1908. This newly created institution was devoted to prehistory, history and natural history of the Swietokrzyski Region.

The museum is a national institution of culture and one of the largest museums in Poland. It comprise a collection of Polish and European art (Italian, Spanish, Dutch and German).

The National Museum in Wrocław is regarded as one of the largest and most important museums in Poland. 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 up to the early 20th century, and finally an extensive library of books and documents.

The museum is a national institution of culture, and one of the largest museums in Poland. It comprise a rich collection of ancient art (Egyptian, Greek, Roman), an extensive gallery of Polish painting since the 16th century and a collection of foreign painting (Italian, French, Dutch, German and Russian).

Museum of Art in Łódź

Digital Collections of the National Museum in Krakow

The beginnings of the Museum’s operations were based on a small ethnographic collection which currently consists of more than 5,000 items. Among them, the most prominent ones are the exhibits that characterise the traditional folk culture of the Tarnów region. Apart from the exhibits mentioned above, the Museum collects items connected with the life and culture of the Romani.

The mission of the Fryderyk Chopin Museum at the Fryderyk Chopin Institute in Warsaw – the world’s largest Chopin centre – is to cultivate memory of the great composer and to make knowledge about his life and work available to the public at large.

The Museum is a modern institution of culture - it is a historical museum which presents the 1000 years of Jewish life in the Polish lands. It is also a place of meeting and dialogue among those who wish to explore the past and present Jewish culture, those eager to draw conclusions for the future from Polish-Jewish history, and finally those who are ready to face the stereotypes and oppose xenophobia and nationalistic prejudices that threaten today’s societies.

The Polish Museum in the Swiss town of Rapperswil was established in 1870 upon the initiative of the Polish political emigrants.

The creation of a virtual museum is related to the existing archive of the Historical Club LGBTQIA FEM / ... Fundacja Q. Archival collections are usually "hidden" in archives and we were very much interested in sharing them. Thanks to this, we are showing that we are making sure that as a LGBTQ + minority in Poland we are not marginalized by deleting our history from the official circulation. At the same time, we also wanted to show the fact that the LGBTQ + community can be seen more broadly than just through sexuality.

The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum was created by an act of the Polish parliament on July 2, 1947, and includes the grounds of two extant parts of the Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camps. The Museum grounds cover 191 hectares, of which 20 are at Auschwitz I and 171 at Auschwitz II-Birkenau. On the museum grounds stand several hundred camp buildings and ruins, including the ruins of the gas chambers and crematoria, over a dozen kilometers of camp fence, camp roads, and the railroad spur ("ramp") at Birkenau. In 1979, the site of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp was entered on the UNESCO international list of world heritage sites.

Records pertaining to the Solidarity movement.

Internet Museum of Solidarity Movement

Archaeological Museum in Gdańsk

The National Museum in Krakow was established by a resolution of the Krakow City Council on 7 October 1879, as the first national museum institution at a time when the Polish people were deprived of their own statehood and country, which had been appropriated by the partitioning powers.

Museum of the Silesian Uprisings in Świętochłowice

The Museum aims at presenting the most significant themes in the history of Poland — state and nation — with special emphasis on the idea of freedom: functioning and development of the parliamentary system, civic life and institutions, and the struggle for freedom and independence.

The Warsaw Rising Museum was opened on the 60th anniversary of the outbreak of fighting in Warsaw. The Museum is Warsaw residents’ tribute to those who fought and died for independent Poland and its free capital.

Museum devoted to Jerzy Kukuczki, a Polish mountaineer who climbed and photographed the Himalayas.

Collections of the Arsenal Fortifications and Weapons Museum - a branch of the Zamość Museum in Zamość

Digital Collections of the Museum of King Jan III's Palace in Wilanów

Collection of the Royal Castle in Warsaw

Wawel Royal Castle

This is the biggest in Europe and unique in the world museum devoted to textiles in all its aspects.

Old Graphics of the National Museum in Szczecin

Collections of the Krakow Saltworks Museum in Wieliczka

Regional Museum in Leszno

Virtual Museums of Lesser Poland

Collections from the Museum in Rybnik

Collections of the Museum of the Tatra Mountains.