Regional Museum in Nowy Sącz

The collections of the Regional Museum in Nowy Sącz contain exhibits on the archaeology and history of the Sącz region and art from the Middle Ages to the present including militaria, painting, prints, sculpture, fabrics, decorative arts, including crafts and folk art. The most important collections associated with the museum are its "non-professional" items, above all the naive art of Nikifor of Krynica, and the rich collection of old prints and Orthodox church art from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries, including icons, carvings and liturgical objects from Lemko Orthodox churches from the Sącz region.

The Gothic House

Nowy Sącz, ul. Lwowska 3
phone +48 18 443 77 08
sekretariat@muzeum.sacz.pl
Tue-Thu 10am-3pm, Fri 10am-5:30pm, Sat-Sun, holidays 9am-2:30pm
tickets PLN 8/5, free admission on Sat

The Gothic House in Nowy Sącz, also known as the Canon House, built in the early 16th century for the Sącz canons, is the main building of the museum. It houses a collection of early art from the Nowy Sącz region as well as other permanent exhibitions: Sacred Guild Art from the 14th-19th c., The Royal Castle in Nowy Sącz, Gallery of the Mayors of Nowy Sącz at the turn of the 19th and 20th c., Folk Art in the 18th -early 20th c. and Court Art from the 17th-19th c. A collection of sacred art of the Eastern Orthodox Church from the 15th-19th c. with the holy icons from the Western Lemko Region and bas-relief by Wit Stwosz The prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane on loan from the Parish of the Name of the Holy Virgin Mary from Ptaszkowa are especially noteworthy. The Gothic House is also a venue for temporary exhibitions devoted to history, culture and art.

Old Synagogue Gallery

Nowy Sącz, ul. Berka Joselewicza 12
phone +48 18 444 23 70
synagoga@muzeum.sacz.pl
Wed-Thu 10am-3pm, Fri 10am-5:30pm, Sat-Sun 9am-2:30pm
tickets PLN 6/3, free admission on Sat

The Old Synagogue Gallery is located in the 18th-century former synagogue. It was opened for visitors in 1982. The permanent exhibition in the entrance hall to the synagogue is devoted to the Jews of Nowy Sącz. Temporary exhibitions devoted to history, art and culture are on display in the main prayer room.

Maria Ritter Gallery

Nowy Sącz, Rynek 2
phone +48 18 443 78 37
visiting after reservation at the Gothic House
Tue-Thu 10am-3pm, Fri 10am-5:30pm, Sat-Sun 9am-2:30pm
tickets PLN 6/4, free admission on Sat

Gallery of Paintings by Maria Ritter and Interiors of a Historic Tenement House is an exhibition displayed in four rooms on the second floor of a historic townhouse of the Ritter Family, dating from the turn of the 18th and 19th c. It contains a monographic exhibition of paintings by Maria Ritter (1899-1976), an outstanding artist from Nowy Sącz, as well as various artifacts from her atelier. One can also admire the late 19th-century interiors furnished and ornamented with original furniture and accessories: two living rooms and a bedroom.

Sącz Ethnographic Park

Nowy Sącz, ul. Wieniawy-Długoszowskiego 83b
phone +48 18 444 35 70, 18 441 44 12
skansen@muzeum.sacz.pl
May – September: Tue-Sun 10am-6pm (entrance from the side of ul. Lwowska 226 and ul. Długoszowskiego 83b)
October – April: Mon-Fri 10am-2pm (entrance from the side of ul. Lwowska 226 only, last admittance at 1pm)
Tickets:
- open air museum PLN 12/6
- open-air museum and the Galician Town PLN 14/8
- family PLN 32
- walking ticket (without visiting the interiors) May – September PLN 12, October – April PLN 7
- free admission on Sat

Sącz Ethnographic Park is closed on days after the holidays, on Easter Sunday and Monday, Corpus Christi Day, 1 January, 11 November and Christmas.

The Sącz Ethnographic Park is a regional skansen of the wooden architecture and traditional folk cultures of the historic Sącz region. There is 75 objects on display here including farms with auxiliary buildings, a manor house from the 17th c.(with a unique polychromy in its interiors), a manorial grange and 18th-century sacred architecture: a Roman Catholic church, a Greek Catholic church and a Protestant church. One can also find a village school, the elements of Carpathian Gypsy settlements and detached buildings used for rural industries (a forge, oil mill, a windmill).

• Sector of Josephine Colonists
  

Presents the culture of the local ethnic minoroty, called the Josephine colonists or Galician Germans, who settled down in Galicia region in 1780s on the recommendation of the Austrian emperor Joseph II. Reconstruction of the original development consists of three homesteads and an evangelical church. One of the homesteads shows a typical interior (kitchen, stable, chamber, alcove) and articles for daily use. The other one houses temporary exhibitions.

Galician Town

ul. Lwowska 226
phone +48 18 441 02 10
miasteczko@muzeum.sacz.pl
May – September: Tue-Sun 10am-6pm
October – April: Mon-Fri 10am-2pm (last admittance at 1pm)
tickets PLN 6/4, free admission on Sat, a walk through the Town (without visiting the interiors) is free of charge

The Galician Town presents the building of a little town from the end of the 19th century. It consists of a town hall with an exhibition of archival maps, well-equipped firehouse, manor house and tenement houses, concentrated around a market square. In the tenement houses one can visit a potter’s workshop, a watchmaker’s shop and a photographic studio.

Zofia and Stanisław Chrząstkowski Museum of the Sącz Lachs

Podegrodzie, Community Office
phone +48 18 445 90 33
Mon-Fri 9am-3pm
tickets PLN 4/2, free admission on Wed

The exhibition is devoted to the traditional material culture of the Lach region - agriculture and folk crafts, such as pottery, smithery, the processing of unwoven fabric and weaving. On display is also contemporary folk art and artifacts connected with folk rites: decorative wedding twigs, Easter palms, harvest wreaths, Nativity cribs, carolers' stars, Turoń costumes and other artifacts. The museum also contains a collection of the original holiday costumes from Podegrodzie, mostly from the turn of the 19th and 20th c.

Nikifor Museum in Krynica Zdrój

Krynica-Zdrój, ul. Bulwary Dietla 19
phone +48 18 471 53 03
Tue-Sat 10am-1pm, 2-5pm, Sun 10am-1pm, 2-4pm
tickets PLN 10/6, free admission on Wed

The museum extensively presents the work of Nikifor (ca. 1895-1968), who is one of the most famous representatives of ”intuitive” painting. Nikifor lived in Krynica for almost his entire life. The exhibition contains paintings from all of his artistic periods watercolors, gouaches and drawings on diverse themes typical of the artist's work. Such themes include landscapes with Catholic and Orthodox churches, the architecture of Krynica, interiors, railway stations, offices, ”dollar factories” and portraits. The exhibition is complemented by Nikifor's mementos, publications devoted to the painter and photographs of him.

Józef Szalay Pieniny Museum

Szczawnica, pl. Dietla 7
phone +48 18 262 22 58
Tue-Sun 10am-1pm, 2-4pm
tickets PLN 6/4; admission free on Sun

The ethnographic section of the museum shows the elements of the life of the Pieniny highlanders in the first half of the 20th c., including their folk architecture, interior furnishings, shepherding, agriculture, hunting, fishing and weaving. This part of the exhibition is complemented by folk costumes of the Pieniny region and emblems of the Szczawnica highlander families. Another part of the exhibition devoted to the region's history covers the subjects entitled Szczawnica as a part of the Czorsztyn Starost (district) administration, Józef Szalay, the Founder and Organizer of the Spa, The Kraków Academy of Arts and Letters, the Owner of Szczawnica, Szczawnica, the Property of Adam Stadnicki from 1909-1948 and The Second World War in the Territory of the Pieniny Mountains. Another part of the exhibition, The Room of Jan Wiktor, is dedicated to a devotee of the Pieniny region and author of stories on this region.