In November 2015 in the Former Palace of Cracow Bishops a new permanent exhibition will be open. The exhibition, based on the collection of the National Museum in Kielce, will present coins and banknotes in their historic periods. Special attention will be paid to the treasures found in the Świetokrzyski Region - from ancient, medieval and modern times. The treasures consist of more than 22,000 objects, which will be a good starting point for stories about history of money in Poland. We will present various ways of payment from the time of the Piast and Jagiellonian dynasties up to the 1990s. Coins from the Vasa epoch will be shown with a special estyma as they come from the same time as the Palace of Cracow Bishops.
We believe that our guests will also be interested in other items presented on the exhibition. One of them is a very rare coin from the time of the Duchy of Warsaw - struck during the siege of Zamość in 1813. A special place will be devoted for banknotes, which were designed by outstanding Polish artists and are small works of art.
The project is realised together with Polish National Bank within the programme of Economic Education.
Curator: Paweł Grzesik
Coordinator: Natalia Łakomska
