Opening hours: Closed Mondays; open all other days, 10am-3pm.
Established by the Cracow bishop, cardinal Jan Puzyna, in 1906.
The Museum - Treasury of the Metropolitan Basilica - boasts nowadays one of Poland's richest and most valuable collections of church art of the twentieth through the 2w3eighteenth century. Among the holdings are paintings, sculptures, vessels, monstrances and other liturgical objects; reliquaries; vestments, including bishop Kmita's sixteenth century chasuble, a true masterpiece and one of the most precious Renaissance objects of its type; embroidered altar and decorative textiles, including Flemish and Brussels tapestries dating from the mid-seventeenth century, and Persian rugs. There are also Poland's oldest regalia, including Queen Jadwiga's wooden sceptre and apple from the fourteenth century and a copper crown from the same period. The Museum preserves also other memorable objects related to the history of Poland, notably St. Maurice's spear presented by Emperor Otto to King Boleslaw Chrobry in 1000 and King Stanislaw August's coronation coat from 1765.
The Museum also holds works of religious art from various churches of the Cracow Archdiocese, including a number of thirteenth century paintings.
The holdings are presented through temporary exhibitions.
Muzeum Katedralne Jana Pawła II
Wawel 2
31-001 Kraków
Region: woj. małopolskie
Phone: (+48 12) 422 26 43, 422 95 24
WWW: www.wawel.krakow.pl