Muzeum Historii Kielc, Kielce

Museum of the History of Kielce - a museum operating in Kielce since February 1, 2008.

The decision to establish the museum was made on 1 September 2006 by the City Council. On October 30 of the same year, the new institution received a tenement house at 4 Św. Leonarda Street, built in the second half of the 19th century and renovated in 2004-2006. In 2011 it was visited by approximately 20 thousand people. It was popular mainly for its workshops, meetings, concerts and the "Trolley with History" - a series of meetings presenting the fate of a particular place. In 2014, the museum was visited by 17,822 people compared to 23,299 in 2013.

The museum has a permanent exhibition entitled "From the History of Kielce". It presents the history of the city in the Middle Ages, in the period when it belonged to the bishops of Cracow, and in the 19th and 20th centuries, when Kielce became the capital of the region.

The Museum is active in publishing. Published so far are, among others: six volumes of Museum-Historical Studies, six volumes of the series "Sources to the History of Kielce", and the series "Kielce Biographies", which includes biographies of Stefan Artwiński, Antoni Heda and Mieczysław Koczanowicz. The Museum of the History of Kielce has also initiated the creation of a monograph of the city, which was published in 2014 entitled Kielce through the Centuries.