Zwierzyniec House
Zwierzyniec House—Dom Zwierzyniecki—brings together local memory and one striking international story. This branch of the Museum of Krakow sits in a suburban tenement building from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, built by the mason Jan Florczyk. Between July and August 1912, the upstairs apartment hosted the family of Vladimir Ulianov, better known as Lenin. A small but enduring legacy followed: the first “Lenin apartment in Krakow” exhibit opened in 1970, and from 1980 the building was run by the Lenin Museum in Kraków for ten years. After the Lenin Museum was decommissioned in 1990, the building passed to the Museum of Krakow, then briefly served as a theatre space from 1991 to 1996, before the Zwierzyniecki Artistic Salon was established in 1996 through an agreement involving the museum and local partners. …
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