Historical Museum of the City of Kraków

The Historical Museum of the City of Kraków was a branch of the Old Records Office of Kraków, in operation from 1899. The Museum holdings include sixteenth through twentieth century city maps, paintings, prints, photographs, guild objects and works by Kraków artists and artisans, as well as portraits of nobility from the sixteenth to the twentieth century; fourteenth through twentieth century weapons; a collection of sixteenth through twentieth century clocks; famous Kraków nativity scenes (szopka); artifacts related to theatre; Judaica; items commemorative of the Polish uprisings of the nineteenth century and of World War I and II.nThe Museum’s main location is the baroque Krzysztofory Palace.