Wawel Royal Castle

You can get your medals at the IRSA shop in the courtyard aisle!

Additional medals from Wawel Cathedral at the ticket offices!

Wawel Royal Castle – a royal residence of historic character, located on Wawel Hill in Kraków of the Wawel Royal Castle – State Art Collections.with an area of 7040 m² with 71 exhibition halls.

The castle has been extended and renovated many times over the centuries. Numerous fires, looting and marches of foreign armies, combined with the destruction of the residence, caused the building to be repeatedly rebuilt in new architectural styles, and its exterior was renovated, and the appearance and furnishings of the interior transformed and changed.

Of the eight permanent museum exhibitions, five are located in the castle and the sixth, the Royal Gardens, the youngest of the exhibitions (opened in 2005), is a certain part of the residence. In the castle itself, there are the Representative Royal Chambers and the Royal Private Apartments (formerly forming one exhibition – The Furnishings of the Halls and Chambers), the Crown Treasury and the Armoury (formerly separate) and the Art of the East (formerly also the East in the Wawel Collection).