National Museum of Warsaw

The National Museum, founded in 1862, is Poland’s largest art collection. Until 1916 it was called the Museum of Fine Arts. In its collection, the museum has outstanding monuments of ancient Egyptian, ancient and Byzantine art, as well as works of European painting and sculpture of the XV-XX centuries, the richest collections of decorative and applied art, and of course the famous and world-famous “Madonna and Child” – Botticelli.

Warsaw National Museum has the largest collection and is one of the oldest museums in Poland. In its collection there are more than 800,000 exhibits - works of Polish and world art. They reflect all eras - from ancient to modern art, and cover painting, sculpture, drawings, illustrations, photographs, ancient coins, as well as objects of applied art. A special place in the museum collection is occupied by the returned paintings taken from the National Museum during the Second World War: “Orange Vase” by Alexander Gerymsky, “In the Workshop of the Artist” by Leon Vychulkovsky, “Hunting roundup in Nesvezh” by Julian Falat and “Negro” by Anna Bilinskaya. The museum is proud of modern LED lighting, which is currently used in only a few museums in the world.