Małopolska Contemporary Art Collection

Lonely Planet review

Dominating Rynek Główny (the Main Market Square) is the centrally positioned Cloth Hall, once the centre of Kraków's medieval rag trade. The ground floor is still a trading centre but now one for crafts and souvenirs, while the upper floor is taken over by the Małopolska Contemporary Art Collection, replacing the Gallery of 19th-Century Polish Painting (Galeria Sztuki Polskiej XX Wieku). That collection, with works by Józef Chełmoński, Jacek Malczewski, Aleksander Gierymski and the leader of monumental historic painting, Jan Matejko, has been moved to the Royal Castle at Niepołomice, 20km east of Kraków, for three years while Cloth Hall is renovated.