https://muzea.org.pl/lublin/en/Every museum in Lublin and the Lublin region. No fluff.Hugo 0.147.6enTue, 13 Oct 2026 18:08:27 +0000© 2026 muzea.org.pl/lublin - Museums of Lublin and Lubelszczyznahttps://muzea.org.pl/lublin/en/exhibitions/with-against-the-flow/Wed, 07 Oct 2026 18:01:24 +0200https://muzea.org.pl/lublin/en/exhibitions/with-against-the-flow/From 6 November 2026 to 10 January 2027 Labirynt Gallery will show two touring exhibitions from the German institute ifa at once, about photography that is not content merely to record the world. Five artists based in Germany rework press photographs, online images and urban architecture. Admission will be free. Labirynt Gallery on the exhibition (the gallery’s own English text): Imagine you are a photographer needing to go out into the world to take new pictures. But what does “out” actually mean these days? And how can we tell what “new” pictures are? What value does photography have as an artistic medium in an era in which everything has already been photographed and the world is awash with an incessant stream of networked images? What are the issues that need to be addressed today? And how?exhibitionshttps://muzea.org.pl/lublin/en/exhibitions/roads-to-freedom/Wed, 07 Oct 2026 18:00:36 +0200https://muzea.org.pl/lublin/en/exhibitions/roads-to-freedom/Ewa Jeziorska-Karwowska, a Lublin painter and printmaker, and Idri Draman, a painter from Kabylia living in exile in Poland, will show their work together in the Kościuszko Manor House inside the UMCS Botanical Garden. The opening is on Friday 16 October 2026 at 17:00; the garden has not given a closing date. It publishes its text in Polish only, so the quotation below is our translation. UMCS Botanical Garden on the exhibition:exhibitionshttps://muzea.org.pl/lublin/en/exhibitions/gift-of-dr-zbigniew-slaski/Sun, 04 Oct 2026 10:02:22 +0200https://muzea.org.pl/lublin/en/exhibitions/gift-of-dr-zbigniew-slaski/A small display set inside the permanent arms and armour exhibition at Lublin Castle, one of the gift presentations with which the National Museum in Lublin marks its 120th year. This time the objects are paper rather than steel: documents, books and albums from the first years of Poland’s fight for independence. The museum publishes no English text on the jubilee displays, so the quotation below is our translation of its Polish description.exhibitionshttps://muzea.org.pl/lublin/en/exhibitions/copper-shilling-hoards-from-rokitno/Sun, 04 Oct 2026 10:02:02 +0200https://muzea.org.pl/lublin/en/exhibitions/copper-shilling-hoards-from-rokitno/Two vessels full of coins, ploughed up in the same field near Lubartów thirty years apart: more than 13,700 copper shillings of King John Casimir in all. The display belongs to the series with which the National Museum in Lublin, in its 120th year, thanks the people who built its collections - here, two generations of one farming family. The museum publishes no English text on the jubilee displays, so the quotation below is our translation of its Polish description.exhibitionshttps://muzea.org.pl/lublin/en/exhibitions/irena-hochman-and-tadeusz-myslowski-collection/Sun, 04 Oct 2026 10:01:25 +0200https://muzea.org.pl/lublin/en/exhibitions/irena-hochman-and-tadeusz-myslowski-collection/A display in the hall outside the Gallery of 19th- and 20th-Century Polish Painting at Lublin Castle, one of several dozen gift presentations with which the National Museum in Lublin marks its 120th year. This one draws on prints from a collection that a Lublin-born couple living in New York built over more than half a century. The museum publishes no English text on the jubilee displays, so the quotation below is our translation of its Polish description.exhibitionshttps://muzea.org.pl/lublin/en/exhibitions/roman-stanczak/Sun, 04 Oct 2026 10:01:16 +0200https://muzea.org.pl/lublin/en/exhibitions/roman-stanczak/From 22 October to 22 November 2026 the lapidarium beneath the Holy Trinity Chapel at Lublin Castle will show sculptures by Roman Stańczak, who represented Poland at the 2019 Venice Biennale. It is one of the gift displays marking the National Museum in Lublin’s 120th year, and this time the donors are the Saatchi family of London. The museum publishes no English text on the jubilee displays, so the quotation below is our translation of its Polish description.exhibitionshttps://muzea.org.pl/lublin/en/exhibitions/prolog-kacper-gaczkowski/Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:37:14 +0200https://muzea.org.pl/lublin/en/exhibitions/prolog-kacper-gaczkowski/A solo sculpture show by a student at the Faculty of Arts of Lublin’s Maria Curie-Skłodowska University (UMCS) stands in the open air in the Rosarium, the rose garden of the university’s Botanical Garden. This site files the garden’s shows under the Kościuszko Manor House, but these works stand among the roses, not inside the manor. It runs until 31 October 2026. The garden publishes no English text, so the quotation below is our translation of its Polish description.exhibitionshttps://muzea.org.pl/lublin/en/exhibitions/paschal-mystery-witold-urbanowicz/Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:36:25 +0200https://muzea.org.pl/lublin/en/exhibitions/paschal-mystery-witold-urbanowicz/A Paris-based priest who taught himself to paint, hung beside the mass-produced holy pictures of a century ago: in the temporary exhibitions gallery of the Głusk town hall, Lublin’s open-air village museum sets Father Witold Urbanowicz’s paintings against Passion prints from its own collection. The show was due to close on 31 August; the museum has extended it to 31 October 2026, citing strong interest. The museum publishes no English text on the show; the quotation below is our translation of its Polish announcement.exhibitionshttps://muzea.org.pl/lublin/en/exhibitions/debuts-sculpture-students-umcs/Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:36:04 +0200https://muzea.org.pl/lublin/en/exhibitions/debuts-sculpture-students-umcs/Eleven sculpture students from Lublin’s Maria Curie-Skłodowska University (UMCS) show reliefs and busts in the open air, in the Rosarium of the university’s Botanical Garden. The show is not inside the Kościuszko Manor House but in the rose garden on the slope below it, and it runs until 31 October 2026. The garden publishes no English text, so the quotation below is our translation of its Polish description. UMCS Botanical Garden on the exhibition:exhibitionshttps://muzea.org.pl/lublin/en/exhibitions/in-the-flower-garden-chodziez-porcelain/Wed, 23 Sep 2026 13:03:48 +0200https://muzea.org.pl/lublin/en/exhibitions/in-the-flower-garden-chodziez-porcelain/Cups, vases and cake stands from a single Polish factory, chosen for one thing: the flowers and leaves painted and printed on them. Piotr Marzec, a florist from Zamość, is showing part of his Chodzież porcelain collection inside the Kościuszko Manor House, in the grounds of the UMCS Botanical Garden, until 30 October 2026. The Garden publishes no English text, so the quotation below is our translation of its Polish description.exhibitionshttps://muzea.org.pl/lublin/en/exhibitions/lukasz-tarkowski-posters-exhibition/Wed, 23 Sep 2026 13:02:58 +0200https://muzea.org.pl/lublin/en/exhibitions/lukasz-tarkowski-posters-exhibition/Twenty posters that Łukasz Tarkowski designed for the events of Lublin’s open-air village museum now hang side by side on the fence at its entrance. It is a fifteen-minute outdoor show, best treated as the prelude to a longer walk round the skansen. The museum publishes no English text on the show, so the quotation below is our translation of its Polish announcement. Lublin Village Open-Air Museum on the exhibition:exhibitionshttps://muzea.org.pl/lublin/en/exhibitions/nature-as-inspiration-place-and-material/Wed, 23 Sep 2026 13:02:42 +0200https://muzea.org.pl/lublin/en/exhibitions/nature-as-inspiration-place-and-material/Wicker sculptures by Maria Polakowska-Prokopiak, a professor at the art faculty of Maria Curie-Skłodowska University (UMCS), stand in the open air around the Kościuszko Manor House in the university’s Botanical Garden, in the green Sławinek district of north-west Lublin. You see them on a walk through the garden, on the ordinary garden ticket, until the season ends on 31 October 2026. The garden publishes no English text, so the quotation below is our translation of its Polish description.exhibitionshttps://muzea.org.pl/lublin/en/exhibitions/images-wojciech-and-tomasz-sadley/Wed, 23 Sep 2026 13:02:37 +0200https://muzea.org.pl/lublin/en/exhibitions/images-wojciech-and-tomasz-sadley/A small display of gifts in the lapidarium beneath Lublin Castle’s Gothic Holy Trinity Chapel. It pairs textiles by Wojciech Sadley, a Lublin-born pioneer of the Polish school of textile art, with silk paintings by his son Tomasz. It needs its own 5 PLN ticket and runs until 18 October 2026. The museum publishes no English text, so both the English title and the quotation below are our translations. The National Museum in Lublin on the exhibition:exhibitionshttps://muzea.org.pl/lublin/en/exhibitions/reminiscences-piotr-zieleniak/Wed, 23 Sep 2026 13:02:28 +0200https://muzea.org.pl/lublin/en/exhibitions/reminiscences-piotr-zieleniak/Sculptures by a Lublin artist who teaches at the city’s Maria Curie-Skłodowska University (UMCS) stand in the open air beside the Kościuszko Manor House, so you see them on a walk through the university’s Botanical Garden. The show runs until 31 October 2026, the last day of the garden’s season. The garden publishes no English text, so the quotation below is our translation of its Polish description. UMCS Botanical Garden on the exhibition:exhibitionshttps://muzea.org.pl/lublin/en/exhibitions/young-movie/Wed, 23 Sep 2026 13:02:11 +0200https://muzea.org.pl/lublin/en/exhibitions/young-movie/An open-air show of animated films by art and computing students from Lublin and Warsaw, about stress, social-media addiction and depression in the teenage years. It stands outdoors beside the Kościuszko Manor House in the UMCS Botanical Garden, and you watch it on your own phone by scanning QR codes, until 31 October 2026. The garden publishes no English text, so the quotation below is our translation of its Polish description.exhibitionshttps://muzea.org.pl/lublin/en/exhibitions/stanislaw-szygell/Wed, 23 Sep 2026 13:02:01 +0200https://muzea.org.pl/lublin/en/exhibitions/stanislaw-szygell/A small display of landscapes by Stanisław Szygell, a Polish painter of the Jan Stanisławski school whose name you are more likely to meet in an auction catalogue than on a museum wall. It is one instalment in the National Museum in Lublin’s year-long series of gifts marking its 120th anniversary, and it runs at Lublin Castle from 4 September to 1 November 2026. The museum publishes the series in Polish only, so the quotation below is our translation.exhibitionshttps://muzea.org.pl/lublin/en/exhibitions/figurative-works-from-the-zamek-group-circle/Wed, 23 Sep 2026 13:01:51 +0200https://muzea.org.pl/lublin/en/exhibitions/figurative-works-from-the-zamek-group-circle/Lublin’s Zamek Group is remembered for abstract “matter painting”, but its members started out drawing and painting people. This display in the National Museum’s permanent gallery pulls out that early, figurative phase in two of them, Jerzy Durakiewicz and Tytus Dzieduszycki-Sas. It is on at Lublin Castle until 1 November 2026. The museum publishes the description in Polish only, so the quotation below is our translation. The National Museum in Lublin on the exhibition:exhibitionshttps://muzea.org.pl/lublin/en/exhibitions/journey-through-life-inka-zamoyska/Wed, 23 Sep 2026 13:01:39 +0200https://muzea.org.pl/lublin/en/exhibitions/journey-through-life-inka-zamoyska/Paintings by Jadwiga “Inka” Zamoyska, a Canadian-born artist whose parents were the last owners of the Kozłówka palace, hang in the Kościuszko Manor House inside Lublin’s university botanical garden until Saturday 10 October 2026. One garden-plus-manor ticket gets you in, and a porcelain show shares the building. The garden publishes its text in Polish only, so the quotation below is our translation. UMCS Botanical Garden on the exhibition: The exhibition presents the painting of Jadwiga “Inka” Zamoyska - an artist and a daughter of the last owners of Kozłówka. Shown in the Kościuszko Manor House in the UMCS Botanical Garden in Lublin, it is a unique record of an identity stretched between the world of emigration and the tradition of her ancestors’ country.exhibitionshttps://muzea.org.pl/lublin/en/exhibitions/jacek-antoni-zielinski/Wed, 23 Sep 2026 13:01:22 +0200https://muzea.org.pl/lublin/en/exhibitions/jacek-antoni-zielinski/A small corridor display at Lublin Castle, one of 38 gift presentations with which the National Museum in Lublin marks its 120th year. This time the donor is the artist himself: a Warsaw painter who treats a photograph as a ground to paint on rather than a finished image. The museum publishes no English text on the jubilee displays, so the quotation below is our translation of its Polish description.exhibitionshttps://muzea.org.pl/lublin/en/exhibitions/posters-gifted-by-dydo-halasa-folga-januszewska/Wed, 23 Sep 2026 13:01:00 +0200https://muzea.org.pl/lublin/en/exhibitions/posters-gifted-by-dydo-halasa-folga-januszewska/A small display of Polish art posters in the corridor beside the Orthodox Church Painting Gallery at Lublin Castle: work from three donations, rounded off by a single design by Franciszek Starowieyski, one of the best-known names of the Polish School of Posters. It is one of the gift displays the National Museum in Lublin is running through its 120th-anniversary year to thank its donors, and it was announced to run until 1 November 2026. As of 4 October the museum’s schedule no longer lists it, so check that the posters are still up before you go. The museum publishes this programme in Polish only, so the quotation below is our translation.exhibitionshttps://muzea.org.pl/lublin/en/exhibitions/tomasz-zawadzki/Wed, 23 Sep 2026 13:00:52 +0200https://muzea.org.pl/lublin/en/exhibitions/tomasz-zawadzki/Paintings by the Lublin abstract painter Tomasz Zawadzki hang in the castle gallery devoted to the “Zamek” Group, the 1950s avant-garde circle his work grows out of. The display is one of a year-long series marking the 120th anniversary of the National Museum in Lublin and runs from 7 August 2026 to 3 January 2027. The museum publishes no English text on it, so the quotation below is our translation of its Polish description.exhibitionshttps://muzea.org.pl/lublin/en/guides/lublin-museums-with-kids/Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://muzea.org.pl/lublin/en/guides/lublin-museums-with-kids/Lublin museums with kids: the open-air village museum, a cebularz baking show, the cellars, the castle and Dęblin's aircraft. Ages, time and rain plans.guideshttps://muzea.org.pl/lublin/en/exhibitions/tamara-lempicka-beyond-borders/Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:06:50 +0200https://muzea.org.pl/lublin/en/exhibitions/tamara-lempicka-beyond-borders/The largest permanent holding of Tamara de Lempicka’s work in any Polish public museum, in the words of the museum’s own audio guide: pieces the National Museum in Lublin bought in 2023, on show at Lublin Castle since 23 June 2023. From the start, the exhibition text spoke of working towards a permanent Lempicka gallery at the castle. The museum now lists the exhibition among its permanent exhibitions, with no closing date.exhibitionshttps://muzea.org.pl/lublin/en/exhibitions/copts-from-egypt-to-podlasie/Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:05:57 +0200https://muzea.org.pl/lublin/en/exhibitions/copts-from-egypt-to-podlasie/A photography show by Elżbieta Dziuk inside Lublin’s Trinity Tower pairs two sides of one community. On one side are Coptic monasteries in the Egyptian desert; on the other, a Cairo church choir on tour in Podlasie, a region of north-eastern Poland with a large Orthodox community. It is covered by the tower ticket and runs until the end of October 2026. The museum publishes no English text, so the quotation below is our translation of its Polish description.exhibitionshttps://muzea.org.pl/lublin/en/exhibitions/did-the-world-find-out/Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:05:32 +0200https://muzea.org.pl/lublin/en/exhibitions/did-the-world-find-out/This temporary exhibition at the Pod Zegarem Martyrdom Museum, Lublin’s former Gestapo detention centre, is built around a glass jar. It held secret correspondence between Polish prisoners of war and women in Ravensbrück, and lay buried near Neubrandenburg until May 1975. The museum has published neither an opening nor a closing date; it published its description of the show on 3 September 2026, in Polish only. Pod Zegarem Martyrdom Museum on the exhibition (our translation of the museum’s Polish text):exhibitionshttps://muzea.org.pl/lublin/en/exhibitions/lublins-history-has-many-names/Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:04:27 +0200https://muzea.org.pl/lublin/en/exhibitions/lublins-history-has-many-names/Jolanta Michalak, a Lublin painter who also works as a city guide, has hung portraits of the people who made Lublin at the very top of the Trinity Tower, from King Casimir the Great to the poet Julia Hartwig. The show sits on the route up to the viewing terrace and needs no ticket of its own. Lublin Archdiocese Museum - Trinity Tower on the exhibition (our translation; the museum publishes this text in Polish only):exhibitionshttps://muzea.org.pl/lublin/en/exhibitions/magdalena-franczak-love-letters-only/Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:04:00 +0200https://muzea.org.pl/lublin/en/exhibitions/magdalena-franczak-love-letters-only/From 4 to 27 September 2026, Labirynt Gallery’s second space at Grodzka 3, in Lublin’s Old Town, was Magdalena Franczak’s studio, and from 18 September a small, free “exhibition in progress” about memory and forgetting. Labirynt Gallery on the exhibition (our translation of the gallery’s Polish text; the gallery publishes no English version of this page): This time we are not inviting you to a finished exhibition, but to a place where an exhibition is only just coming into being. For a dozen or so days Galeria Labirynt 2 will turn into Magdalena Franczak’s studio, and the public will be able to step into the very middle of the process of making the exhibition.exhibitionshttps://muzea.org.pl/lublin/en/exhibitions/cezary-klimaszewski-boor/Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:02:34 +0200https://muzea.org.pl/lublin/en/exhibitions/cezary-klimaszewski-boor/From 2 to 25 October 2026 Labirynt Gallery shows “boor”, an installation by the Lublin artist Cezary Klimaszewski built around two of Marlon Brando’s film roles. It is a small, free show with a run of under 4 weeks, so if you will be in Lublin in October, put it in the plan now rather than later. Labirynt Gallery on the exhibition (the gallery’s own English text): What happens in our heads when a take, a scene or a character from a film stays with us for years? Do we still remember the film itself or rather our own transformed version of it, built from connotations and recurring images?exhibitionshttps://muzea.org.pl/lublin/en/guides/best-museums-lublin/Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://muzea.org.pl/lublin/en/guides/best-museums-lublin/The best museums in Lublin, ranked on stated criteria: what each is for, how long it takes, what it costs, where English works and which run on fixed times.guideshttps://muzea.org.pl/lublin/en/guides/free-museums-lublin/Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://muzea.org.pl/lublin/en/guides/free-museums-lublin/Free museums Lublin: Majdanek and Labirynt never charge admission, National Museum branches set free dates monthly, and the weekly free days are out of town.guides