The National Museum established in 1879, which is the main branch of Poland's National Museum with permanent collections around the country, as well as the National Art Collection on Wawel Hill and the Czartoryski Museum featuring works by Leonardo and Rembrandt.

Wawel Castle National Art Collection is located at Wawel, the former residence of three dynasties of Polish monarchs. Royal Chambers feature art, period furniture, Polish and European paintings, collectibles, and an unsurpassed display of the 16th-century monumental Flemish tapestries. Wawel Treasury and Armory features Polish royal memorabilia, jewels, applied art, and 15th to 18th century arms. The Wawel Eastern Collection features Turkish tents and military accessories.

Kraków National Museum with multiple branches in downtown Kraków, is the richest museum in the country with collections consisting of several hundred thousand items kept in big part in the Main Building but also in other divisions:

The Main Building (at 3 Maja St) serves as the chief venue for temporary exhibitions. The gallery of the 20th century Polish art (upstairs) houses nearly 500 works by Polish modern artists.

Czartoryski Museum and Arsenal (at Św. Jana 19), world-famous for Leonardo's painting of Lady with an Ermine. The museum has other old masters on display including a dramatic landscape by Rembrandt.

Manggha Museum of Japanese Art and Technology (at M. Konopnickiej 26).

Stanisław Wyspiański Museum (at 11 Szczepanska St).

The Gallery of the 19th Century Polish Art in Sukiennice, with the collection of some of the best known paintings and sculptures of the Young Poland movement.

Jan Matejko Manor.

Emeryk Hutten Czapski Museum.

Józef Mehoffer Manor.

 

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The City of Krakow has a main Historical Museum that also has branches throughout the city:

Kraków Museum of History and Divisions:

The Main Building (at Main Market Square, Rynek Główny 35), devoted to the history of the city and its citizens with collections of maps, documents and city stamps, scepters and rings of Lord Mayors, guild objects, portraits of nobility, and the Kraków's famous Christmas cribs.

Town Hall Tower.

Barbican.

Krzysztofory Palace.

Szolayski Museum.

The Silesian House also known as Pomorska.

History of theatre in Krakow museum.

Jewish Museum at the Old Synagogue.

Hipolit Manor.

Celestat, the Residence of the Sharpshooters' Society.

Artistic Salon of the District of Zwierzyniec.

Museum of National Remembrance at "Under the Eagle Pharmacy"

History of Nowa Huta Museum.

Collegium Maius Museum of the Jagiellonian University. The 15th-century Collegium Maius is the oldest building of the Jagiellonian University featuring ancient lecture rooms, communal halls, former professors' quarters, library and treasury with the Gothic sceptres of rectors and the golden 'Jagiellonian globe'. The exhibits include medieval science instruments, old globes, paintings, collectibles, furniture, coins and medals.

Wieliczka Salt Mine, in continuous operation since the 13th century.

Cathedral Museum.

Museum of Archaeology.

Polish Aviation Museum.

Archdiocesean Museum.

Museum of Independence.

Armed Effort Museum (by appointment only).

Museum of Ethnography.

Museum of Pharmacy of the Jagiellonian University.

Museum of Geology of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

Czartoryski Library.

Museum of the Home Army (AK).

Museum of Photography.

Museum of Natural History.

Museum of Zoology.

Rydlówka Manor: museum of the Young Poland movement.

The Cricoteka Centre for Documentation of Tadeusz Kantor Art.

Museum of Urban Engineering a.k.a. Transportation Museum.

Galicia Jewish Museum.

Muzeum Katedry i Zakladu Anatomii UJ CM.