Wild Frolics. An Exhibition for All

Five spaces to do things in rather than display cases: at this Cricoteka show children and adults draw, dress up and make music together, in their socks - until 11 October 2026.

Cricoteka on the exhibition (translated from the Polish original):

It is an invitation to create together, for children and adults alike, in movement and in relationship - the place where we allow ourselves freedom and imagination.

The exhibition is made up of five open spaces designed by artists, where you can draw, dress up, compose sounds, play with scale, light and shadow, and test your own ideas without fear of making a mistake.

What to expect

The exhibition places experimental creativity, risk-taking and imaginative play at the centre, as conditions for authentic contact with others and with oneself. The five spaces were designed by Marta Sala and Cheong Kin Man, Joanna Bronisławska, Justyna Mędrala, Justyna Mazur-Kiwer and Bartek Buczek - you can draw, dress up in oversized costumes, compose sounds, and play with scale, light and shadow in each of them. The curators, Justyna Droń and Anna Grajewska, built the show out of workshops with children aged 6 to 12, which is why it deliberately drops the usual split between a “kids’ corner” and “the rest of the museum” - adults and children play by the same rules here.

Context

Cricoteka documents the art of Tadeusz Kantor, the creator of Cricot 2 Theatre and the mind behind the “anti-exhibition” - a show the visitor does not just look at but physically disturbs. “Wild Frolics” borrows that idea directly and pairs it with Maurice Sendak’s “Where the Wild Things Are”, a story about taming chaos through a child’s imagination. The result is a temporary exhibition that works as a counterweight to Cricoteka’s more contemplative permanent display devoted to Kantor himself.

Tickets and time

A standard ticket costs 25 PLN, a reduced one 15 PLN, and a family ticket (2 adults and 3 children, or 1 adult and 4 children) 60 PLN; there is also a “Wild Card” for 67 PLN covering five visits. The exhibition is open Tuesday to Sunday, 11:00-19:00. This show is built for families with children - anyone after a quiet, contemplative visit should choose Cricoteka’s permanent exhibition instead, since movement, sound and shared play are the point here.

The “Wild Card” is not tied to a name, so several people can share its five entries, but it is sold only at the ticket desk. Cricoteka’s price list gives free Wednesdays for the permanent exhibition “Kantor. Terapia widzeń” only, not for this show. If you want both exhibitions, a combined ticket costs 40 PLN (reduced 20 PLN) instead of 50 PLN for two separate ones, and holders of the Kraków Card pay the reduced price for a standard ticket.

No more than 50 people can be in the exhibition at once, and the museum warns of queues at weekends - if you have the choice, come on a weekday. Last entry is a quarter of an hour before closing, at 18:45. Shoes come off inside, so bring comfortable socks for yourself and the children. There are no works by Kantor himself here - his objects are in the permanent exhibition in the same building.

Visitors with disabilities buy a reduced ticket and their assistant enters free. Every one of the five installations has instructions in Braille, and the layout leaves room for a wheelchair to move freely.

English on site: the museum says the simple instructions at the installations were written in Polish, and it mentions no English labels, audio guide or English tours for this show. A guided tour in a foreign language costs 220 PLN and has to be booked at least a week ahead at rezerwacje@cricoteka.pl .

Events

• 29 September 2026, 17:00-19:00 - audio-described session on the exhibition floor, part of the Festival of Sensitive Culture (Festiwal Kultury Wrażliwej), led by Anna Rejowska; all ages, free, booking by email at rejowska@cricoteka.pl or text/call +48 505 319 882 - details

What the press says

RMF24 (12 March 2026, Renata Gaweł): covers the opening as a space where children are finally allowed to touch and play with the exhibits, quoting curator Justyna Droń - informative, favourable tone - link

Polskie Radio Trójka (11 March 2026): stresses that the exhibition was made together with children, not just for them - informative tone - link

Magiczny Kraków / krakow.pl (2 March 2026), the city’s official portal: notes that the exhibition deliberately removes the divide between a children’s corner and the rest of the museum - informative tone - link

We have not yet found a critical review of the exhibition in cultural outlets (Dwutygodnik, Magazyn Szum) - so far only opening-day coverage is available.

Updates

• 2026-09-13 - added ticket prices, the five spaces’ designers, and the upcoming audio-description session; dates and scope of the exhibition unchanged from the earlier entry.

• 2026-09-22 - dates (11 March - 11 October 2026) and prices re-checked on Cricoteka’s pages: unchanged. Added the 50-person limit, last entry time, Wild Card terms, the free-Wednesday position, accessibility and on-site language; past events removed from the list; the Cricoteka quotation replaced with a verbatim passage from the exhibition page (sources: exhibition page , price list ).

See also

• Krakow Sounds, Melodies, Words - another Krakow exhibition built around sound, in a very different, historical register.

Museum profile: Cricoteka .