Muzeum Stanisława Wyspiańskiego, Kraków

Stanisław Wyspiański Museum - a now defunct branch of the National Museum in Kraków. It was located in the Szołayski House. The building has been used as a gallery for changing exhibitions since 2012, and the works of Stanisław Wyspiański are mostly under restoration.

The creation of the museum was initiated by Wyspiański himself, who in 1901 donated to the National Museum the never completed designs of stained glass windows for the Wawel Cathedral. Then, in accordance with the artist's last will, after his death, his last works from his home and studio in Węgrzce near Kraków were donated to the museum. They were donated by Wyspiański's long-time caretaker and aunt, Joanna Stankiewicz, née Rogowska. In 1920, together with Feliks "Manggha" Jasieński's collection, other portraits and landscapes by Wyspiański, collected by Jasieński, were brought to the museum.

In 1932, on the 25th anniversary of Wyspiański's death, the Kraków City Council decided to establish the Stanisław Wyspiański Gallery at the National Museum, which was to present the works of other Polish painters and sculptors alongside those of the artist. In the 1970s the National Museum, together with the city of Krakow, once again returned to the idea of creating an independent department devoted to the artist. A tenement house at 9 Kanonicza Street was chosen to house the new department, as Wyspiański's father Franciszek had a sculpture workshop on the same street, in the Dlugosz House, and the artist himself lived here for 11 years. The new Wyspiański Chapter was officially opened on the 76th anniversary of the artist's death, on 28 November 1983.

In October 2002, the museum was closed due to changes in ownership. The collection had to be moved. The choice of a new home fell on the Szołayski tenement house on Szczepanski Square, which the National Museum received as a gift from Włodzimiera and Adam Szołayski in 1904, and which came into its possession after the death of Włodzimiera on 24 February 1928. In its new home the Stanislaw Wyspianski Museum operated from April 2004 to April 2012.

The Branch gathered the largest collection of Stanisław Wyspiański's works in Poland. On display were portraits, polychrome and stained glass designs for the Franciscan Church, the Doctors' House, theater scenery designs, furniture as well as photographs and a small collection of family memorabilia. Currently a small part of Wyspianski's collection is exhibited in the exhibition "Always Young. Polish Art Around 1900", in the same building.