Józef Mehoffer House

What to expect

The Józef Mehoffer House at Krupnicza 26 is a biographical museum done right: not a reconstruction but the actual home of one of the leading artists of the Young Poland movement, furnished with his own furniture, paintings and family memorabilia. Mehoffer, a stained glass designer and painter, bought the townhouse between the wars; by a twist of history, Stanisław Wyspiański - his friend and greatest artistic rival - had been born in the very same building decades earlier.

You walk through the rooms as if the owner had just stepped out: drawing room, dining room, study, with paintings, stained glass designs and period decorative art throughout. It is an intimate display, a handful of rooms rather than a palace wing, and that scale is precisely its charm. The garden is a separate draw, reconstructed in 2003 from historical documentation: in summer one of the most pleasant green corners of central Krakow, free to enter, open daily from 10:00 (to 21:00 Monday-Thursday, to 22:00 Friday-Sunday).

Visiting in practice

A visit takes about an hour, and crowds are not a factor. Tickets cost 18 PLN (reduced 14 PLN, family 36 PLN, pupils and students 1 PLN); on Tuesdays the permanent exhibition is free. Note that the museum lists non-standard opening hours on certain days in 2026, so check the National Museum (MNK) website before you go. The garden can be entered without a museum ticket. Labels are the classic house-museum kind; international visitors will get the most out of it with a little background on Young Poland, Krakow’s answer to Art Nouveau.

Getting there

Krupnicza runs off the Planty ring park by the Bagatela Theatre, a few minutes’ walk from the Main Square. Nearest tram stops are Bagatela and Teatr Bagatela on Karmelicka street; from Kraków Główny station it is a fifteen-minute walk.

Nearby

Five minutes away, on plac Sikorskiego, the Stanisław Wyspiański Museum is the natural companion visit. Continue towards the Błonia meadow for the Stained Glass Museum , the working studio where both artists’ windows were made, or head to Kanonicza street for old Polish art at the Bishop Erazm Ciołek Palace .