Poznań National Museum

The National Museum in Poznan is one of the oldest and largest museums in Poland. Established after the restoration of independence, the Wielkopolska Museum in 1919 took in the merged Polish collections (the Museum of Slavic Antiquities together with the collection donated by Seweryn Mielżyński to the Poznan Society of Friends of Science) and Prussian collections (the Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum together with the collection of Athanasius Raczynski). In 1950 it finally gained the name of the National Museum in Poznan.

Today it preserves and provides access to the heritage of many generations - from artifacts from centuries ago to works by contemporary artists. These are objects worthy of world galleries. Among them, for example, "Beach in Pourville" - the only painting by Claude Monet in the Polish museum collection. All of them are waiting for every visitor and every museum visitor to give them a personal, irreplaceable experience of interacting with art!

The National Museum building consists of two parts: the old one, dating back to 1904, and the new one, dating back to 2001. A tour of the permanent exhibition begins in the new building, where a collection of Polish art is displayed on three floors, with works by outstanding Polish artists such as Jacek Malczewski and Stanisław Wyspianski. The permanent exhibition continues in the historic edifice. There the collections of European art (with the unique "Chess Game" by Sofonisba Anguissola), the Middle Ages (with the 13th-century Crucifix from Marianov combining the stylistic features of Romanism and Gothic) and the Baroque (presenting one of the largest collections of Sarmatian coffin portraits), and antiquity (with the Egyptian coffin "Iret-hor-iru" discovered during the excavations in Abusir or a set of relics from Troy).

The resources of the National Museum in Poznan co-create the collections of eight branches of the National Museum in Poznan, viz:

👑 The Museum of Applied Arts at the Royal Castle in Poznań - the only museum in the country that collects and displays objects of applied art created from the Middle Ages to the present day,

⛪️ City Hall - Poznan Museum - a pearl of the Renaissance, the former seat of the city authorities and the current one - the Poznan goats with an impressive exhibition both in the Gothic cellars and on the upper floors on the history of the city from the 10th century to the present day, as well as the history of the City Hall,

🏹 Wielkopolska Military Museum - an incredible display of white arms, firearms, protective armament, military insignia, uniforms and ordnance from the 10th to the 21st century in the central part of the Old Market,

🎻 Museum of Musical Instruments - a unique facility of this kind in the country with nearly 3,000 objects in the collection, which are both professional musical instruments and traditional instruments of various cultures of the world,

🌎 Museum of World Cultures - in the fourth quarter of 2025, after extensive renovation, will delight with various objects of Polish culture, the Greater Poland region, as well as distant, unknown and exotic territories,

🏦 Rogalin Palace Museum - an impressive rococo-classical residence of the Raczynski family built at the end of the 18th century; the Rogalin complex includes the palace with an interior exhibition, the northern wing of the palace with the London Cabinet of Edward Bernard - President of the Republic of Poland in Exile and an ancestral gallery, a carriage house and a painting gallery with more than 250 paintings from the collection of Edward Aleksander Raczynski,

🏛 Adam Mickiewicz Museum in Śmiełów - the only museum of the Polish bard in Poland, which has been inspiring and delighting visitors for 50 years,

🏰 Museum Castle in Goluchow - a fairy-tale estate with French Renaissance architectural features associated with the illustrious Leszczynski, Dzialynski and Czartoryski families, surrounded by the largest landscape park in Wielkopolska.

For more information, visit the website of the National Museum in Poznan at https://mnp.art.pl. At this address you will find information not only about permanent exhibitions or temporary exhibitions, but also other events, which are not lacking in the museum: lectures, meetings, guided tours, concerts.

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