Wawel Royal Castle opens Oneiricon on 20 November

Wawel Royal Castle presents Wawel Oneiricon from 20 November 2026, bringing contemporary prints by Malgorzata Stachurska into selected historic rooms in Krakow. The temporary exhibition runs until 28 February 2027 and links new artistic interpretations with objects and architectural details at the royal residence.

The exhibition is staged at the Wawel Royal Castle, the former seat of Poland’s monarchs and now a national art museum. Its opening date falls within the current visitor season and gives travellers in Poland a new reason to include the castle’s interior routes in a Krakow visit.

Wawel Oneiricon opens across four historic areas

Wawel Oneiricon begins on 20 November 2026 and continues through 28 February 2027. The museum describes the project as an artistic intervention by Malgorzata Stachurska, an artist and conservator associated with the castle’s Painting Workshop.

The works are installed in the Porcelain Cabinet on the first floor, the Collector’s Cabinet on the second floor, the Armoury and the Crown Treasury. The official exhibition details say that the prints draw on motifs including royal armour, leather wall coverings and Renaissance ceiling medallions.

The display also includes copper plates for the works Constellation and The Hunt in the Armoury. Stachurska uses etching, aquatint and mezzotint, placing the contemporary prints near the historic objects and spaces that inspired them.

The exhibition meets a sixteenth-century royal palace

The castle is part of a complex on Wawel Hill beside the Vistula River. The hill is a Jurassic limestone outcrop formed about 150 million years ago and reaches nearly 228 metres above sea level, according to the museum’s history of Wawel Hill.

The royal residence developed over many centuries. A new palace replaced the Gothic residence from about 1504, and its Renaissance form was completed about 1540. The arcaded courtyard and the rooms around it now provide the historical setting for an exhibition that deliberately places contemporary printmaking beside earlier artistic and decorative traditions.

The museum was established in 1930 and holds collections of paintings, sculpture, textiles, arms and armour, ceramics and period furniture. Its collections include the tapestries associated with Sigismund II Augustus and a major group of Italian Renaissance paintings.

Visiting Wawel Royal Castle: what travellers from Western Europe should know

• Wawel Oneiricon runs at Wawel Royal Castle from 20 November 2026 to 28 February 2027, with displays in the Porcelain Cabinet, Collector’s Cabinet, Armoury and Crown Treasury.
• The exhibition changes what visitors encounter in those historic rooms by adding Stachurska’s prints and copper plates to routes containing royal collections and architectural details.
• The castle stands on Wawel Hill in Krakow beside the Vistula River. Krakow is in southern Poland and the country’s official language is Polish, while the national currency is the Polish zloty.
• Visitors should expect historic interiors, uneven surfaces and rooms arranged across different parts of the castle complex. The exhibition includes the Armoury and Crown Treasury as well as rooms on the first and second floors.

Wawel Oneiricon therefore offers a specific combination for the period from 20 November 2026: contemporary printmaking in rooms shaped by the history of Poland’s royal residence.

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Frequently asked questions about Wawel Royal Castle

When does Wawel Oneiricon take place at Wawel Royal Castle?

Wawel Oneiricon runs from 20 November 2026 to 28 February 2027.

Where is Wawel Royal Castle and how do you get there?

It stands on Wawel Hill beside the Vistula River in Krakow, Poland.

What is Wawel Royal Castle?

It is a former royal residence that is now a national art museum, with collections presented in historic rooms and permanent exhibitions.