Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #7 in Krakow, Poland

The Walery Rzewuski Museum of the History of Photography in Kraków is a state-run photography museum in Kraków, Poland, established as the only one of its kind a mere three years before the collapse of the Soviet empire. The venue survived the transition successfully owing to new programmes. The museum building is located on Józefitów 16 street in the Krowodrza district.

Wikipedia: Museum of the History of Photography, Kraków (EN), Website

The Opera Krakowska is an opera house located in Kraków, Poland. It was founded in 1954 in postwar Kraków, although the tradition of opera in the city dates back to 1628 when the first ever full libretto in Polish was released by the local publishing house, followed by the first fully-fledged opera performance in the city in March 1782. The Kraków Opera company stages 200 performances each year, including ballet, operettas and musicals for the young, with an audience occupancy rate of 98%. The Kraków Opera's main repertoire includes both international and Polish operatic classics, reaffirming its status as one of the country's leading opera companies.

Wikipedia: Opera Krakowska (EN), Website

The Palaeobotanical Museum of the Jagiellonian University – a museum operating in the years 2003–2017 in the building of the Institute of Botany of the Jagiellonian University at 31 Kopernika Street in Krakow.

Wikipedia: Muzeum Paleobotaniczne Instytutu Botaniki UJ w Krakowie (PL)

The Botanic Garden of the Jagiellonian University is a botanical garden, founded in 1783 in Kraków. It is located east of the Old Town and occupies 9.6 hectares. It belongs to the Jagiellonian University and is classified as a historical location.

Wikipedia: Botanic Garden of the Jagiellonian University (EN)

The Museum of the Botanical Garden is a museum located in the Botanical Garden of the Jagiellonian University in the Śniadecki Collegium. It has the oldest botanical collection of a museum character in Poland.

Wikipedia: Muzeum Ogrodu Botanicznego (PL), Website

Collegium Śniadeckiego – a historic building of the Jagiellonian University located in Kraków, in the II Grzegórzki district at 27 Kopernika Street, in Wesoła Street.

Wikipedia: Collegium Śniadeckiego Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego (PL)

The Church of St. Theresa of Jesus and St. John of the Cross is a historic Roman Catholic parish church and conventual church of the Discalced Carmelites located in Kraków, in the II Grzegórzki district at 44 Mikołaja Kopernika Street, in Wesoła Street.

Wikipedia: Kościół św. Teresy od Jezusa i św. Jana od Krzyża w Krakowie (PL)

Celestat – a place of training for members of the Krakow Fowler Brotherhood. Originally, Celestat was located near the Mikołajska Gate, later at the palace in Łobzów. The activity of the Fowler Brotherhood was suspended from 1794 to the 30s of the nineteenth century, when a manor house with a garden, today's Strzelecki Park, was purchased at Lubicz Street. A palace was erected in this area, which today is called Celestat. It is a branch of the Historical Museum of the City of Krakow and houses the permanent exhibition From the history of the Krakow Fowler Brotherhood.

Wikipedia: Celestat (PL), Website

The Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary – a historic Roman Catholic hospital church located in Kraków, in the II Grzegórzki district at 19 Mikołaja Kopernika Street, in Wesoła Street.

Wikipedia: Kościół Niepokalanego Poczęcia Najświętszej Maryi Panny w Krakowie (ul. Kopernika) (PL)

Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Jesus is a Roman Catholic church of the Jesuits in Kraków.

Wikipedia: Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Kraków (EN)

St. Nicholas Church – a historic, Roman Catholic parish church located in Kraków, in the Old Town district at 9 Mikołaja Kopernika Street, in Wesoła Street.

Wikipedia: Kościół św. Mikołaja w Krakowie (PL), Website

The Museum of the History of Medicine, full name of the Museum of the Faculty of Medicine of the Jagiellonian University Collegium Medicum – the oldest museum in Poland devoted to medical sciences, a unit of the Faculty of Medicine of the Jagiellonian University Collegium Medicum.

Wikipedia: Muzeum Wydziału Lekarskiego UJ (PL), Website

Church of Our Lady of the Snows – a historic Roman Catholic parish church and conventual church of the Dominican nuns, located in Krakow, in the Old Town district I at 21 Mikołajska Street, in the Old Town. It is also called in Gródek.

Wikipedia: Kościół Matki Boskiej Śnieżnej w Krakowie (PL)

The Church of the Holy Cross is a historic Roman Catholic parish church located in Kraków, in the First District of the Old Town at 2 Holy Spirit Square, next to the Juliusz Słowacki Theatre, in the Old Town.

Wikipedia: Kościół Świętego Krzyża w Krakowie (PL), Website

The House under the Cross is a building at 21 Szpitalna Street in Kraków. Originally the seat of St. Roch's Hospital and the chapel of the same name, it now houses the Centre for the Interpretation of the Intangible Heritage of Krakow of the Historical Museum of the City of Krakow.

Wikipedia: Dom pod Krzyżem w Krakowie (PL)

The Orthodox Church of the Dormition of the Blessed Virgin Mary is an Orthodox parish church located in Kraków, in a tenement house at 24 Szpitalna Street, in the Old Town.

Wikipedia: Cerkiew Zaśnięcia Najświętszej Maryi Panny w Krakowie (PL)

Church of St. Thomas the Apostle – a historic Roman Catholic conventual church of the Holy Spirit, located in Krakow, in the Old Town district I at 14 Szpitalna Street, at the corner with 23 St. Thomas Street, in the Old Town.

Wikipedia: Kościół św. Tomasza Apostoła w Krakowie (PL)

Muzeum Farmacji Collegium Medicum Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego is a museum on Floriańska Street, Kraków, Poland, specializing in the history of pharmacy and pharmaceutical technology. It was established in 1946.

Wikipedia: Pharmacy Museum of the Jagiellonian University Medical College (EN), Website

Jan Matejko House is a museum dedicated to Polish painter Jan Matejko that was established in 1895 and has been a branch of the National Museum in Cracow since 1904.

Wikipedia: Jan Matejko House (EN)

The Chapel of the Passion of Christ, called the Czartoryski Chapel, originally a chapter house – a Roman Catholic temple of historic character, belonging to the archcathedral parish of St. Stanislaus BM and St. Wenceslaus in Krakow. It is one of the public chapels of the Cathedral Basilica of St. Stanislaus and St. Wenceslaus in Krakow at Wawel. It is located in the ground floor of the Clock Tower, at the northern aisle of the cathedral, west of the vestibule leading to the chapter house.

Wikipedia: Kaplica Czartoryskich na Wawelu (PL)

St. Florian's Gate or Florian Gate in Kraków, Poland, is one of the best-known Polish Gothic towers, and a focal point of Kraków's Old Town. It was built about the 14th century as a rectangular Gothic tower of "wild stone", part of the city fortifications against Tatar attack.

Wikipedia: St. Florian's Gate (EN)

The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier – a cenotaph commemorating unknown Polish soldiers killed on the battlefields, located in Krakow on Matejko Square in front of the Grunwald Monument. On the marble pedestal there is a bronze candle, lit during the ceremony.

Wikipedia: Grób Nieznanego Żołnierza w Krakowie (PL)

The Church of the Transfiguration is a historic sacral complex, a Roman Catholic Piarist conventual church and an adjacent monastery, located in Kraków, in the First District of the Old Town at 4 Pijarska Street, in the Old Town.

Wikipedia: Kościół Przemienienia Pańskiego w Krakowie (ul. Pijarska) (PL)

The Princes Czartoryski Museum – often abbreviated to Czartoryski Museum – is a historic museum in Kraków, Poland, and one of the country's oldest museums. The initial collection was formed in 1796 in Puławy by Princess Izabela Czartoryska. The Museum officially opened in 1878. It is now a division of the National Museum in Kraków.

Wikipedia: Czartoryski Museum (EN), Website

St. Mark's Church is a historic Gothic Roman Catholic church located in Krakow, in the First Old Town district at 10 St. Mark's Street, at the corner with Sławkowska Street, in the Old Town.

Wikipedia: Kościół św. Marka w Krakowie (PL), Website

Church of St. John the Baptist and St. John the Evangelist – a historic, Roman Catholic church of the Sisters of the Presentation Sisters located in Krakow, in the Old Town district I at 7a St. John Street, in the Old Town. The church is a sanctuary of: Our Lady of the Redemption of Slaves, Our Lady of Freedom, Our Lady of St. John's Day, Blessed Sophia of Bohemia.

Wikipedia: Kościół św. Jana Chrzciciela i św. Jana Ewangelisty w Krakowie (PL)

The Gallery of 19th-Century Polish Art at Sukiennice, is a division of the National Museum, Kraków, Poland. The gallery is housed on the upper floor of the Renaissance Sukiennice Cloth Hall in the center of the Main Market Square in Old Town Kraków.

Wikipedia: Sukiennice Museum (EN)

Knife in the Cloth Hall in Kraków – a replica of an iron knife hanging on a chain in a passage located on the shorter axis of the building.

Wikipedia: Nóż w Sukiennicach w Krakowie (PL)

The Church of St. Adalbert or the Church of St. Wojciech, located on the intersection of the Main Market Square and Grodzka Street in Old Town, Kraków, is one of the oldest stone churches in Poland. Its almost 1000-year-old history goes back to the beginning of the Polish Romanesque architecture of the early Middle Ages. Throughout the early history of Kraków the Church of St. Wojciech was a place of worship first visited by merchants travelling from across Europe. It was a place where citizens and nobility would meet.

Wikipedia: Church of St. Adalbert, Kraków (EN), Website

Saint Mary's Basilica is a Brick Gothic church adjacent to the Main Market Square in Kraków, Poland. Built in the 14th century, its foundations date back to the early 13th century and serve as one of the best examples of Polish Gothic architecture. Standing 80 m (262 ft) tall, it is particularly famous for its wooden altarpiece carved by Veit Stoss (Wit Stwosz). Some of its monumental polychrome murals were designed by Poland's leading history painter, Jan Matejko (1838–1893). In 1978 it became a UNESCO World Heritage Site alongside the Historic Centre of Kraków.

Wikipedia: St. Mary's Basilica, Kraków (EN), Website

St. Barbara's Church – a historic Gothic Roman Catholic church between St. Mary's Square and the Small Market Square in the Old Town of Krakow.

Wikipedia: Kościół św. Barbary w Krakowie (PL), Website

The Museum and Archive of Maria Angela Truszkowska – the Blessed Foundress of the Felician Sisters – one of the church museums in Krakow, located in a historic tenement house, which is the convent house of the Congregation of the Felician Sisters, and located at 18 Mikołajska Street, at the corner with 8 St. Krzyża Street.

Wikipedia: Muzeum i Archiwum bł. Marii Angeli Truszkowskiej w Krakowie (PL), Website

The Basilica of the Holy Trinity in Kraków, Poland, is a Catholic basilica. Built in a gothic style, it also houses a monastery of the Order of Preachers. Its history dates from the year 1223.

Wikipedia: Basilica of the Holy Trinity, Kraków (EN)

The Orthodox Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross is a historic Greek Catholic church located in Kraków, in the Old Town district I at 11 Wiślna Street, in the Old Town.

Wikipedia: Cerkiew Podwyższenia Krzyża Świętego w Krakowie (PL)

Hugo Stumberg Kołłątaj, also spelled Kołłątay, was a prominent Polish constitutional reformer and educationalist, and one of the most prominent figures of the Polish Enlightenment. He served as Deputy Chancellor of the Crown between 1791–92. He was a Catholic priest, social and political activist, political thinker, historian, philosopher, and polymath.

Wikipedia: Hugo Kołłątaj (EN)

The Professor's Garden – a garden with an area of about 0.15 hectares in Krakow in the Old Town at 17 Jagiellońska Street.

Wikipedia: Ogród Profesorski w Krakowie (PL)

The Jagiellonian University Museum is a museum located in the Collegium Maius building of the Jagiellonian University, at the corner of St. Anne and Jagiellońska Streets in Krakow. It originates from the Archaeological Cabinet of the University, founded in 1867 by Professor Józef Łepkowski, and owes its current shape primarily to Karol Estreicher.

Wikipedia: Muzeum Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego (PL), Website

The Church of St. Anne is a Roman Catholic church located at 13 św. Anny Street in the UNESCO-protected historic centre of Kraków, Poland. It is one of the leading examples of Polish Baroque architecture designed by Tylman van Gameren, but the church's history dates back to 14th century.

Wikipedia: Church of St. Anne, Kraków (EN), Website

The Lotteran House – a building located in Kraków on the northern side of the Capuchin church at 11 Loretańska Street, on the Sand River.

Wikipedia: Domek loretański w Krakowie (PL)

The Church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary – a historic Roman Catholic conventual church of the Capuchins located in Krakow, in the Old Town district I at 11 Loretańska Street, on the Sand Island.

Wikipedia: Kościół Zwiastowania Najświętszej Maryi Panny w Krakowie (PL)

The Kraków Philharmonic is the primary concert hall in Kraków, Poland. It is one of the largest auditoriums in the city. It consists of the main hall for orchestral performances with 693 seats, and two smaller venues, the Golden Hall and the Blue Hall, for chamber music concerts.

Wikipedia: Kraków Philharmonic (EN), Website

The Church of the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a historic Roman Catholic parish church and conventual church of the Felician Sisters located in Krakow, in the Old Town district I at 6 Smoleńsk Street, in Nowy Świat.

Wikipedia: Kościół Niepokalanego Serca Najświętszej Maryi Panny w Krakowie (ul. Smoleńsk) (PL)

The Church of Divine Mercy – a historic, Roman Catholic filial church of the Wawel Cathedral Chapter. It is located in Krakow, in the Old Town district I at 1 Boże Miłosierdzia Street, at the corner with 2 Felicjanek Street and Smoleńsk Street, on Nowy Świat Street.

Wikipedia: Kościół Bożego Miłosierdzia w Krakowie (Nowy Świat) (PL)

The Emeryk Hutten-Czapski Museum, also known as the Czapski Museum is a branch of the National Museum of Kraków, 12 Pilsudski Street, Kraków.

Wikipedia: Emeryk Hutten-Czapski Museum (EN)

Stained Glass Workshop and Museum - a specialty museum in Krakow, Poland dedicated to stained glass art and history.

Wikipedia: Stained Glass Museum, Kraków (EN), Website

The National Museum in Kraków, popularly abbreviated as MNK, is the largest museum in Poland, and the main branch of Poland's National Museum, which has several independent branches with permanent collections around the country. Established in 1879, the museum consists of 21 departments which are divided by art period: 11 galleries, 2 libraries, and 12 conservation workshops. It holds some 780,000 art objects, spanning from classical archeology to modern art, with special focus on Polish painting. In 2023, the museum was visited by over 1.65 million people, making it the third most-visited art museum in Poland and the 37th most-visited art museum in the world.

Wikipedia: National Museum in Kraków (EN)

Hotel Orbis "Cracovia" – a historic hotel in Krakow, in district VII at al. Ferdynanda Focha 1, in Półwieś Zwierzynieckie.

Wikipedia: Hotel „Cracovia” (PL)

Błonia Park is a vast meadow with an area of 48 hectares directly adjacent to the historic centre of the city of Kraków, Poland.

Wikipedia: Błonia (EN)