About the Museum

Medieval and Early Modern Art Collection
Toruńska 1 St, Gdańsk Śródmieście

•  Flemish and Dutch painting from the 15^th to the 17^th century, most importantly The Last Judgement by Hans Memling. The painting is one of the most important works of art in Poland. The collection also has works by masters such as Peter Bruegel the Younger, Jan Brueghel the Elder, Jacob Swanenburgh, Paul Vredeman de Vries, Jan Fyt and many more;
• Gdańsk painting with 265 works from the 16^th to the early 20^th century that represent the most important trends and artists in historical Gdańsk art,  including Hans Vredeman de Vries, Daniel Schultz, Anton Möller and Andreas Stech;
• a large collection of drawings and prints that represent all the European schools in art from the late 15^th to the 19^th century, led by a collection of prints by Dürer and Rembrandt;
• an impressive collection of Gdańsk and Northern European furniture,
• artistic tin, iron, gold, silver and bell-foundry artefacts, and copper and brass objects;
• an ensemble of fabrics and embroideries including historical textiles from the 13^th to the 20^th century. The collection includes Eastern cloths, tapestries, liturgical paraments from Gdańsk and Pomeranian churches, clothing and fashion accessories, and lace.
• a collection of ceramics with items from almost all over Europe.

Modern Art Collection
Abbot’s Palace, Cystersów 18 St, Gdańsk Oliwa

The modern art collection is particularly rich in drawing and painting. The collection of Polish painting from the 19th and early 20th centuries encompasses works by artists representing almost all the major movements and tendencies in Polish art of the period, including Jan Matejko, Olga Boznańska, Aleksander Gierymski, Władysław Podkowiński and Jacek Malczewski. The collection also includes prints, ceramics, sculpture and textile art. 20th-century painting is represented by works of the Colourists of the Gdańsk School, including Juliusz Studnicki and Józefa Wnukowa, as well as artists from other centres across Poland, and by traditionalist painters, foremost among them Antoni Suchanek and Marian Mokwa.

The modern art collection also includes important collections of theatre-related materials, including stage designs, costumes and theatre posters, documenting the history of Polish theatre. The collection includes works by Marian Kołodziej, Alina Afanasjew and Włodzimierz Komorowski.

The collection also includes more than 65 works by Günter Grass, as well as a substantial group of works by French artists, including Georges Braque, Wassily Kandinsky and Marc Chagall.

NOMUS – New Muzeum of Art
Stefana Jaracza 14 St, Gdańsk

NOMUS is Poland’s youngest museum of modern art, operating as a branch of the National Museum in Gdańsk, Department of Modern Art. We have created a visitor-friendly space in a former school workshop building on the historic premises of Gdańsk Shipyard. We want to talk with our visitors about the contemporary world through the medium of art, and bring art itself closer to the viewer, make it understandable and accessible to all.

Gdańsk Gallery of Photography
Stefana Jaracza 14 St, Gdańsk

The photographs at the Gdańsk Photography Gallery are of local, regional and historic nature. The bulk of the collection is Gdańsk photography and photographs from Poland’s former Eastern Borderlands. Recently, thanks to artists’ donations, we have considerably enlarged our collection of contemporary art photography from Poland and abroad.

Ethnographic collection
Abbot’s Granary, ul. Cystersów 19, Gdańsk Oliwa

So far, the Museum has collected and studied about 9000 exhibits of folk culture. Besides Besides a collection of Pomeranian artefacts (including a very interesting collection of furniture) there are comparative items from the cultures of the Kuyavia, Pałuki, Warmia and Masuria regions. There is a noteworthy collection of unique items left by the former Frisian settlers of the Żuławy Lowlands. The collection also includes items of the material culture of the people repatriated from Poland’s former Eastern Borderlands. Especially noteworthy is a small but very interesting collection of non-European ethnographic items, with arms, sculpture, ceramics and jewellery from Africa, South America and Oceania.

The Ethnography Department has a permanent exhibition „Folk Culture of Gdańsk Pomerania”, which is a presentation of the basic forms of the rural economy and activities of the people of Gdańsk Pomerania – fishing, farming, animal husbandry and home processing. The collected objects come mainly from Kashubia, but also from Kociewie, Żuławy and Powiśle.

Museum of the National Anthem
Będomin 16, Nowy Barkoczyn

A  large patriotic music collection, including 19^th-century music boxes playing Dąbrowski’s Mazurek, the Polish national anthem, and the oldest records with the song from the early 20^th century. The collection also includes one of Poland’s largest assemblages of archival patriotic postcard’s with the motif of the White Eagle, Poland’s national coat of arms.

Museum of the Polish Nobility
Pomeranian Contact Centre with Expatriates
Waplewo Wielkie, 82-410 Stary Targ

The Museum of the Polish Nobility, housed in the Palace of the Counts Sierakowski collects mementoes and works of art related to the building’s history (the palace, farm buildings and the park, acting as a summer drawing room) and the story of its owners, the Sierakowski family, its predecessors and the related families who influenced the interior décor in Waplewo (the Sołtan, Pociej, Radziwiłł, Potocki, Lubomirski and Zboiński clans).

The Museum’s main objective is to develop a collection of items related to the Polish gentry culture in its broad sense by acquiring objets d’art that used to adorn manors, palaces and their surroundings, clothes worn by the Polish gentry and the objects that accompanied the gentry in their everyday efforts managing their property, their social and cultural activism and during leisure time. A collection of letters by the poet Zygmunt Krasiński and items with family coats of arms are especially valuable.