Ethnographic Museum, Krakow

Meet us at our meeting place and see the most interesting places in Krakow. Learn about the history of the medieval city - the Jewish Quarter - Kazimierz and Podgórze (former territory of the Krakow ghetto). Come with us on a wonderful journey in our golf cart. Explore over 24 places and discover our wonderful city! Krakow City Tour - Sightseeing Tour is trip prepared for people who value holidays at the highest level. We connect everyone - the elderly, young, active and those who prefer sightseeing without a lot of steps, fat, thin, short, tall - it doesn't matter our mission is to make your stay in our city a great memory for you! The most important features ? An alternative way of sightseeing, the most interesting places in the city, a bit of history, a bit of laughter! What You see on this tour ? 1. Planty Park 2. History Krakow - description 3. Jewish Quarter - description 4. Skałka Church 5. Church of St. Catherine 6. Wolnica Square - Jewish City Hall 7. Church of Corpus Christi 8. Tempel Synagogue 9. Kupa Synagogue 10. Isaac Synagogue 11. Ciemna Street 12. Old Synagogue 13. Popper Synagogue 14. Family House of Helena Rubinstein 15. Remuh Synagogue and old cemetery 16. Memorial Stone of the Nissembaum Family Foundation 17. Old Jewish Shops 18. Former Ghetto - description 19. Ghetto Heroes Square 20. Pharmacy under the Eagle - Residence of Tadeusz Pankiewicz 21. Oskar Schindler's - history 22. Life in Ghetto - description 23. Ghetto Wall 24. Church of St. Joseph

Explore Krakow at your own pace and according to your own personal interests with a 1-, 2-, or 3-day City Card. Get access to 38 museums and monuments. Learn more about World War II hero Oscar Schindler at the Oscar Schindler Factory. Visit the Eagle Pharmacy in the former ghetto, and learn how the Holocaust impacted Krakow’s Jews. Go to the Main Market Square Underground Museum and encounter vampires. A full list of museums will be attached to your City Pass, and to make getting from sight to sight easier, you can choose a card with unlimited travel on the city’s public transport system, day or night. The museums included in the City Pass include: "1. Schindlers Factory 2. Main Market Square Underground 3. Polish Aviation Museum 4. The Princes Czartoryski Museum (Lady with Ermine by Leonardo da Vinci) 5. City Defence Walls Krakow 6. Archaeological Museum (Main building) 7. Archaeological Museum (Underground of the Church of Saint Adalbert) 8. Archaeological Museum (Nowa Huta Branice) 9. The Seweryn Udziela Ethnographic Museum 10. The Gallery of 19th-Century Polish Art in the Sukiennice 11. The Stanisław Wyspiański Museum 12. The Zwierzyniec House 13. The Jozef Mehoffer House 14. St. Adalberts Church Underground 15. History of Photography Museum 16. Centre for documentation of the Art of Tadeusz Kantor Cricoteka, Archives. Office 17. The Bishop Erazm Ciołek Palace 18. The Old Synagogue 19. The Archdiocese Museum 20. The Szołayski House 21. The Hipolit House 22. The Main Building of the National Museum 23. Regional Rydel`s Museum of Polish Modernism Rydlowka 24. The Emeryk Hutten-Czapski Museum 25. Pomorska Street 26. Celestat 27. MOCAK 28. Town Hall Tower 29. Exhibition in Nowa Huta District Branice 30. Galicja Jewish Museum 31. The Barbican 32. The Eagle Pharmacy 33. The Krzysztofory Palace 34. Museum of the Home Army dedicated Gen Emil Fieldorf Nil 35. The Jan Matejko House 36. Nowa Huta Museum 37. Legends of Cracow 38. Kościuszko Mound"

Begin with a pickup at your hotel. Then, start exploring Krakow in the Old Town. Pass through the Kraków Barbican, which is the gateway to the old town, and see the city walls. After this, drive by the Czartoryski Museum and Świętego Jana on the way to the Main Market Square. Marvel at the historical landmarks and cafes in this public space that is Europe's largest medieval plaza. Then, see the water fountains at Plac Szczepański, a rejuvenated public space, and the Collegium Maius, a university building known for its courtyard and cloisters. Arrive at the Town Hall. See some more renowned landmarks, including the Church of St. Francis of Assisi, Bishop's Palace, and the Czartoryski Museum. Appreciate the view of the castle on top of a limestone bluff at Wawel Hill, the Roman Catholic Parish of the Holy Cross, and Juliusz Słowacki Theatre as well. Admire the view of St. Florian's Gate and its Gothic towers, which has been a gateway to the city since the Middle Ages. Head to Planty Park, and then stop to take some photos and shop for souvenirs on Szeroka Street. Afterward, continue the trip with a visit to the historical Kazimierz district. See the Old Synagogue, Popper Synagogue, Remuh Synagogue, and Izaak Synagogue. After that, go to plac Nowy, Dom Heleny Rubinstein, and the Museum of Municipal Engineering. Take a break at the Corpus Christi Basilica, a Gothic church established in 1335 by King Casimir III the Great. Continue to Wolnica Square, where a salt trading route from Wieliczka and Bochnia used to pass. Take photos of Father Bernatek’s Bridge, which is famous for its sculptures by the artist Jerzy Kędziora. Go to Podgórze on the way to visit the Plac Bohaterów, which was a part of the Ghetto. Drive to Apteka pod Orłem and then see Oscar Schindler's factory, which hosts 2 museums. Continue to see the Jewish Ghetto. End the tour at Église Saint-Joseph, a historic church in the Podgórze district.

Discover Krakow's Ethnographic Museum. The Town Hall section features an exhibition which highlights Polish folk culture, while the museum's second building, the so-called Esterka's House, contains temporary displays in its beautifully-vaulted cellar. Derived from a small collection gathered by Seweryn Udziela, the current exhibitions consist of around 80,000 showpieces, the majority of which are from the end of the 19th century and the early 20th century. A certain haven for the peasant culture of Krakow, the Seweryn Udziela Ethnographic Museum invites all visitors to have a look around its precious and extensive collections. These exhibits shed light on the artists' attraction to the liveliness of folklore, which they saw as an antidote to the stagnation and cultural crisis among Polish intelligentsia from the turn of the 20th century.

Before World War II, Krakow had over 64,000 Jews (a quarter of the city's population). The religious life of Krakow's Jews was also concentrated in Kazimierz. They prayed in six large Orthodox synagogues (Old, Remu, Wysoka, Isaac, Popper and Kup) and in the Progressive synagogue (Tempel). They were maintained by the Jewish community, but there were also many prayer houses belonging to various religious associations and private individuals. Nowadays, Kazimierz is one of the most recognizable places in Krakow. This district, teeming with cultural and artistic life, attracts especially those who want to feel the spirit of Krakow's bohemia. The most crowded cafes and well-known art studios and galleries are concentrated around the following streets: Szeroka, Izaaka, Miodowa, Józefa, Podbrzezie and around Plac Nowy. However, it is difficult to make a complete list of pubs, cafes and restaurants that are worth visiting, because each of these places has a unique character and decor, and there are dozens of them in Krakow's Kazimierz.

Begin with a pickup at your hotel. Then, start exploring Krakow in the Old Town. Pass through the Kraków Barbican, which is the gateway to the old town, and see the city walls. After this, drive by the Czartoryski Museum and Świętego Jana on the way to the Main Market Square. Marvel at the historical landmarks and cafes in this public space that is Europe's largest medieval plaza. Then, see the water fountains at Plac Szczepański, a rejuvenated public space, and the Collegium Maius, a university building known for its courtyard and cloisters. Arrive at the Town Hall. See some more renowned landmarks, including the Church of St. Francis of Assisi, Bishop's Palace, and the Czartoryski Museum. Appreciate the view of the castle on top of a limestone bluff at Wawel Hill, the Roman Catholic Parish of the Holy Cross, and Juliusz Słowacki Theatre as well. Admire the view of St. Florian's Gate and its Gothic towers, which has been a gateway to the city since the Middle Ages. Head to Planty Park, and then stop to take some photos and shop for souvenirs on Szeroka Street. Afterward, continue the trip with a visit to the historical Kazimierz district. See the Old Synagogue, Popper Synagogue, Remuh Synagogue, and Izaak Synagogue. After that, go to plac Nowy, Dom Heleny Rubinstein, and the Museum of Municipal Engineering. Take a break at the Corpus Christi Basilica, a Gothic church established in 1335 by King Casimir III the Great. Continue to Wolnica Square, where a salt trading route from Wieliczka and Bochnia used to pass. Take photos of Father Bernatek’s Bridge, which is famous for its sculptures by the artist Jerzy Kędziora. Go to Podgórze on the way to visit the Plac Bohaterów, which was a part of the Ghetto. Drive to Apteka pod Orłem and then see Oscar Schindler's factory, which hosts 2 museums. Continue to see the Jewish Ghetto. End the tour at Église Saint-Joseph, a historic church in the Podgórze district.

In this place, at the corner of Krakowska and Trynitarska Streets, there was a Gothic tenement house, built in the 14th century. The basements have been destroyed since then. Later times (15th and 16th centuries) are remembered from parts of the walls for the aftermath, as well as for events related to the remains of stonework dating from around 1430. The common name, "Esterka's House", is related to the legend of Casimir the Great's love for Esther's Jews, and the house was supposed to be the place of their secret trysts. In the 16th century, the architect of the tenement house was Bartolommeo Berrecci, an Italian architect and sculptor of the early Renaissance, critical of the station of the Polish king Sigismund I the Old. (He was granted the citizenship of Krakow, he was even a city councilor and owned several tenement houses in the city. He rests in the nearby Corpus Christi church.) Berrecci in turn gave the characteristic tenement house to his daughter Anna, who in 1543 sold it to Stanisław Fox, a lay judge of Kazimierz. The house was renovated and rebuilt in the 19th century, and in the years 1978–1985 it was thoroughly renovated, while the details of the stonework, the frames of the basement windows and the plinth made of sandstone cladding were reconstructed. The source stonework dates back to the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries. As a result of this renovation of the tenement house, the forms from the reconstruction carried out in the 19th century were restored. In 1987, the building was handed over to the Ethnographic Museum in Krakow. Currently, it is a place of temporary exhibitions, educational items, also located in the scientific part, including the specialized Museum Library, and in the office.

Begin with a pickup at your hotel. Then, start exploring Krakow in the Old Town. Pass through the Kraków Barbican, which is the gateway to the old town, and see the city walls. After this, drive by the Czartoryski Museum and Świętego Jana on the way to the Main Market Square. Marvel at the historical landmarks and cafes in this public space that is Europe's largest medieval plaza. Then, see the water fountains at Plac Szczepański, a rejuvenated public space, and the Collegium Maius, a university building known for its courtyard and cloisters. Arrive at the Town Hall. See some more renowned landmarks, including the Church of St. Francis of Assisi, Bishop's Palace, and the Czartoryski Museum. Appreciate the view of the castle on top of a limestone bluff at Wawel Hill, the Roman Catholic Parish of the Holy Cross, and Juliusz Słowacki Theatre as well. Admire the view of St. Florian's Gate and its Gothic towers, which has been a gateway to the city since the Middle Ages. Head to Planty Park, and then stop to take some photos and shop for souvenirs on Szeroka Street. Afterward, continue the trip with a visit to the historical Kazimierz district. See the Old Synagogue, Popper Synagogue, Remuh Synagogue, and Izaak Synagogue. After that, go to plac Nowy, Dom Heleny Rubinstein, and the Museum of Municipal Engineering. Take a break at the Corpus Christi Basilica, a Gothic church established in 1335 by King Casimir III the Great. Continue to Wolnica Square, where a salt trading route from Wieliczka and Bochnia used to pass. Take photos of Father Bernatek’s Bridge, which is famous for its sculptures by the artist Jerzy Kędziora. Go to Podgórze on the way to visit the Plac Bohaterów, which was a part of the Ghetto. Drive to Apteka pod Orłem and then see Oscar Schindler's factory, which hosts 2 museums. Continue to see the Jewish Ghetto. End the tour at Église Saint-Joseph, a historic church in the Podgórze district. Eat lunch in the famous Morskie Oko restaurant to sample the best Polish cuisine.