A museum of folk culture in the former Kazimierz town hall on Plac Wolnica, founded in 1911 by Seweryn Udziela.
The Seweryn Udziela Ethnographic Museum operates in Kraków's Kazimierz district in two places. The permanent exhibition is housed in the former Kazimierz town hall at Plac Wolnica 1, and the temporary exhibitions, the library and the secretariat in Esterka's House (Dom Esterki) at ulica Krakowska 46. The collections include more than 80,000 objects connected with Polish culture and the cultures of other nations.
Plans to create an ethnographic museum arose in 1902, in connection with an exhibition of folk art from the collections of Seweryn Udziela. The museum was officially established in 1911, and Udziela became its first director. After the Second World War the institution moved to its present address. Today it is a cultural institution of the Lesser Poland Voivodeship self-government.
The permanent exhibition in the town hall presents Polish folk culture: folklore, art and everyday life. The museum's website lists among its collections sculptures by Jędrzej Wawro and his son Jan, paintings by Katarzyna Gawłowa and wooden sculptures by Michał Giera. The collections can also be viewed in the online catalogue at zbiory.etnomuzeum.eu.
The museum runs classes for kindergartens, schools, families, young people and adults, also for people with disabilities, including the series “Etno? Logicznie” (Ethno? Logically). It is a good idea for a visit on a rainy day.
Plac Wolnica lies in the heart of Kazimierz. In the area stands the Old Synagogue, about 500 m away, and at a distance of about 800 m Wawel Hill. Close by is also the Manggha Museum, about 900 m from the square.
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