National Museum (Muzeum Narodowe) Krakow

... older) and Pest. the first day i ventured out with the intention of getting to know hungarys history..i began at the national museum (a logical place i guess). what i was most interested in and I guess this is one of the fascinations about eastern ...

... of the communist days). Train back to Prague in the afternoon. Put our bags into a locker then went to see the National Museum. It's full of stuffed animals, rocks, archaelogical stuff. Some of it's interesting, but one can only take looking at so ...

... Castle which was once the house of polish kings and is now home to the Polish Crown Jewels and National Museum.  The walled fortress also contains the Wawel Cathedral where the Polish Monarchs received their coronations and many kings, ...

... Krakow, including St. Mary's Cathedral.  Very impressive place.  After the tour, we all took cabs from the hotel to the National Museum for a reception hosted by the United States Ambassador to Poland, the Honorable Victor Ashe, an appointee by former ...

... and is now a market again on the ground floor.  The basement is a high tech museum  and the first floor is the National Museum.   Also in the square is the Town Hall Tower, St. Adalbert's Church and St. Mary's Baslica.  The Town Hall ...

... When I left there, because it was starting to drizzle, I decided to head to a museum. I went to the National Museum. The first floor was about military history (kind of boring, but some interesting footage of WWII), the second floor was Polish ...

... to Polish control it rose in importance until in 1921 it became the residence of the Polish president.  It is now a national museum. The cathedral inside the castle is, as you would expect, an impressive and beautiful church.  To me, however, ...

... payment. No thanks! A concert stage was set up on the Rynek - not sure what it was as I don't speak Polish! National museum - free! Basically a re-creation of traditional Polish homes. Yawn ..... too bad I couldn't nap on the beds that were on ...

... will be coming soon. Back to our Cracow stories. (Hopefully you will find them entertaining.) Mike and the National Museum - yesterday after viewing an incredibly beautiful museum collection (decorative arts and late 19th and 20th century Polish ...