The National Museum in Warsaw or the Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie is a national institution of culture and the largest in Warsaw having 800,000 items in its permanent galleries.

Dating from 1862 and operating under its current name since 1916, there’s a huge array of permanent exhibitions and antiquities. Visitors will find a wealth of delightful 15th-century Dutch and Flemish paintings in the Gallery of Old European Paintings and several galleries of Polish art from the 16th century onwards, including some of the best work by the country’s leading names in art - Chełmoński and Matejko to name a few. A new gallery dedicated to works from the 20th and 21st centuries is well worth a look for fans of more recent pieces.