Muzeum Książąt Czartoryskich w Krakowie
The Princes Czartoryski Museum—Muzeum Książąt Czartoryskich—is one of Poland’s oldest museums, built around a single purpose: preserving national memory through art. The collection begins in 1796, when Princess Izabela Czartoryska gathered her first objects in Puławy for her “Temple of Memory,” including trophies tied to the Battle of Vienna in 1683. Despite upheaval after the November 1830 Uprising and the confiscation of the Czartoryski properties, most holdings survived: they were moved to Paris, where they were housed at the Hôtel Lambert. In 1870, Prince Władysław Czartoryski chose to relocate the collections to Kraków, which arrived in 1876, and the museum officially opened in 1878. Today it belongs to the National Museum in Kraków. The museum is best known for Leonardo da Vinci’s Lady with an Ermine, alongside major works by Rembrandt. …
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