General Information

The Galicia Jewish Museum, located in Kazimierz, the historical, Jewish district of Krakow, focuses on the traces of Jewish life and culture that can still be found in the area of the historic Austro-Hungarian province of Galicia located in modern Poland. The Museum welcomes 30,000 visitors annually from around the world, hosts permanent and temporary exhibitions and offers educational activities.

Additional Information

In addition to tours and meetings, the museum’s Education Centre offers workshops, lectures, and seminars on Jewish religion, culture and the Holocaust for different age groups. It is one of the only institutions in southern Poland to offer Holocaust education classes on a permanent basis for visiting schools.

Collection: Highlights

The main exhibition of the museum, “Traces of Memory”, commemorates the 800-year Jewish presence in western Galicia (today’s south-eastern Poland) through contemporary photographs of synagogues, cemeteries and other relics of the Jewish presence in the region. The exhibition is divided into five sections.

Collection: Explained

The previously mentioned sections representing different ways of approaching the Jewish past in Polish Galicia include the following: Jewish Life in Ruins, Jewish Culture as it Once Was, The Holocaust: Sites of Massacre and Destruction, How the Past is Being Remembered and People Making Memory Today. A part of the exhibition is dedicated to the Auschwitz concentration camp. The museum also hosts two to three temporary exhibitions.