National Museum in Krakow - a big communistic cube-shaped building located on the way from The Main Market Square to Kosciuszko Mound, near Meadows (Krakowskie Blonia), next to the university campus.

National Museum in Krakow has many buildings and branches all around Krakow. One common characteristic is that all of them host the best polish art.

Main building is Poland’s richest museum, a house for three permanent exhibitions and the chief venue for temporary exhibitions. The gallery of the 20th-century Polish art upstairs houses nearly 500 outstanding works by Poland’s modern artists, with a tilt towards those most important for Krakow. Arranged with regard to schools and trends rather than chronology the exhibits provide a wide cross-section of the Polish art, starting from the 1890s up to now. Also permanent are two other exhibitions: of decorative art and of the Polish arms and army uniforms. The Museum tends to be rather conservative, it’s not trying to be hip and follow the most modernn trends as Bunkier Sztuki.

The Main Building is home to three permanent galleries - Arms and Colours in Poland, Gallery of Decorative Art and 20th-Century Polish Art.

As for most of polish museums the admission to National Museum in Krakow is free of charge.