Opening hours: Closed Mondays; open Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday, 10am-7pm; Thursday, Friday, 10am-4pm; Sunday, 10am-3pm.
The neoclassical Palace under the Cones, so called because of the recurring motif of pine cones in the architectural design of its interiors, was bought by Jozef Mehoffer in 1932. Mehoffer, the artist famous for his paintings, drawings and prints, as well as for the stained glass windows inside the Freiburg collegiate church, spent the last several years of his life there. The idea to create Mehoffer's museum inside the Palace was put forward by the artist's son, Zbigniew, in 1963. The building was renovated in the years 1980-5 and taken over by the National Museum in Cracow after Zbigniew Mehoffer's death in 1986. The interiors were faithfully restored to their original functions owing to gifts of furniture, decorative arts pieces and textiles as well as family keepsakes from Jozef Mehoffer's heirs and using Museum's deposits, especially sculptures, stained glass (including Mary's Life, the first joint venture by Mehoffer and Wyspianski), oil paintings (including a number of portraits of the artist's wife), Mehoffer's drawings and his collections of art of the Far East and of the Judaica. The more than 180 works by the artist on display at the Palace represent different areas of his artistic activity.
The ground floor comprises a dining room, a library and a drawing room. The first floor features Jozef Mehoffer's room, Jadwiga Mehoffer's bedroom and boudoir, the so-called yellow sitting room, a dining room, a Japanese room with a collection of Japanese wood engravings, and the apartments of the artist's son and his family. The former house-keeping areas now contain an exhibition telling the history of the house and the museum.
Dom Józefa Mehoffera
Oddział Muzeum Narodowego w Krakowie
ul. Krupnicza 26
31-123 Kraków
Region: małopolskie
Phone: (+48 12) 421 11 43, 423 20 79
WWW: www.muzeum.krakow.pl