The Józef Mehoffer House
This museum preserves a house that became art history, not just housing it. The Dom Józefa Mehoffera stands at Krupnicza 26, within a building that began as a wooden home belonging to the Rogowski family—grandparents of Stanisław Wyspiański. After Kraków’s major fire in 1850, the family rebuilt in brick, and in 1868 Maria Rogowska married Franciszek Wyspiański; their son Stanisław was born here in 1869. In 1873, the owner Józef Szujski rebuilt the property to a design by Antoni Łuszczkiewicz, adding a floor and a central stairwell lit by a top opening, along with new rooms. The Mehoffers later called it “Pałacyk pod Szyszkami,” after carved pine-cone “szyszki pinii” decorations in the hall and staircase, designed by Józef Mehoffer. …
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