Worth a Detour
National Museum
Poland's great art museum, with Matejko's vast Battle of Grunwald and medieval frescoes saved from a Nubian cathedral.
- Open
- Closed Mondays
- Price
- Paid
- Time Needed
- 2 hours
- Address
- Aleje Jerozolimskie 3, 00-495 WarsawDirections
- Getting There
- At the east end of Aleje Jerozolimskie, a 10-minute walk from the center.
Why Go
The Gallery of 19th-Century Art is dominated by Jan Matejko's Battle of Grunwald, nearly ten meters wide. The Faras Gallery shows paintings rescued in the 1960s from a cathedral in Sudan before the Nile was dammed.
Nearby in Warsaw
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