Czartoryski Museum tickets for the Lady with an Ermine: 65 PLN for a timed entry, closed on Mondays, free on Tuesdays by desk ticket only

💡 The Short Version: The Czartoryski Museum, which holds Leonardo’s Lady with an Ermine, sells timed tickets at 65 PLN (about £12.50), online or at its desk. It is closed on Mondays, and Tuesday is free, but free tickets are limited and collected at the desk on the day only. The painting is on the second floor, in Gallery 7. The ticket admits you from 15 minutes before to 30 minutes after the time printed, and the last admission is an hour before closing. The Czartoryski is outside the Kraków Card, and the museum’s 12-month pass does not cover it. Or book a tour: GetYourGuide’s Czartoryski Museum entry ticketad (£19 to £25) costs more than the museum’s own ticket.

The tickets, compared

Prices are from the National Museum in Kraków’s Czartoryski Museum page and price list, at about 5.15 PLN to the pound. The operator is mnk.pl.

• Timed entry: the ticket is for a set date and time and admits you from 15 minutes before to 30 minutes after.
• Where to buy: at the museum’s ticket office or at bilety.mnk.pl. When the online tickets for a slot have run out, a limited number remain at the office.
• A ticket for other branches: a Czartoryski ticket also admits you once to the permanent exhibitions at the Matejko, Mehoffer, Szołayski, Ciołek and Czapski branches, the Szymanowski branch in Zakopane and “Arms and Colours” at the Arsenal. The museum says it is valid for 3 months from purchase.
• The 12-month pass (300 PLN) covers every National Museum branch except the Czartoryski.

How to buy

• Online: choose the date and time at bilety.mnk.pl. Tickets bought online can be returned by email to rezerwacja@mnk.pl.
• At the desk: the ticket office at ul. Pijarska 15 sells timed tickets and accepts złoty and cards.
• On Tuesdays: collect the free ticket at the desk on the day. It cannot be booked, and the numbers are limited. If you cannot risk missing out, buy the 65 PLN ticket for another day.

Tours worth paying for

The museum’s own ticket is the better buy, and its audio guide is 15 PLN. The product below is on GetYourGuide, which is not the museum’s shop. Its price is its range of “from” prices, per person.

An entry ticket

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Krakow: Lady with an Ermine Czartoryski Museum Entry Ticketad is the museum’s entry sold through GetYourGuide. The museum’s own ticket is 65 PLN (about £12.50), so the product costs more than buying direct.

The Monastery building of the Czartoryski Museum on ul. Pijarska. Photo: Zygmunt Put, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What to see

The museum holds the Czartoryski princes’ collection, and its exhibition is spread across three buildings, so the museum says to allow 2 to 3 hours.

1. Lady with an Ermine (second floor, Gallery 7). Leonardo’s portrait of Cecilia Gallerani, painted about 1490 in oil on a wooden panel, is one of just over a dozen surviving portraits by him and the only work by the artist in Polish collections. The ermine alludes to Duke Ludovico Sforza, who received the Order of the Ermine in 1488.
2. Rembrandt’s Landscape with the Good Samaritan. It hangs in the same museum.
3. The rest of the collection. Western European paintings, crafts, military artefacts and ancient art, with medieval art and the Czartoryski rooms.
4. The temporary exhibition. “Precious, most precious. Works from the Princes Czartoryski Library” runs to 25 October 2026. The Czartoryski Library at ul. św. Marka 17 is closed for rebuilding.

The museum entrance on ul. Pijarska. Photo: Igor123121, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0.

What to skip: the temporary exhibition if you are short of time. The painting is on the second floor, so head up first.

Hours, rules and getting there

• Cloakroom: compulsory and free. Leave coats, rucksacks and large handbags there. It does not take suitcases.
• Photos: allowed without flash. Filming needs the museum’s consent.
• Pets: not allowed, except certified service dogs.
• Café: the museum has one.
• Getting there: the museum is at ul. Pijarska 15. Buses 124, 152 and 424 and trams 4, 14, 18, 20 and 52 stop at Stary Kleparz.

The Czartoryski is not on the Kraków Card, and its Tuesday free entry sits with the rest in free museum days in Kraków. Museums in Kraków covers the National Museum’s other branches, and the Cloth Hall gallery is in the Main Market Square guide. Wawel Castle and Schindler’s Factory are the other tickets to book ahead, and what to book before you go to Kraków has the rest. 3 days in Kraków and Kraków in one day fit the Monday closure into a plan. To sleep nearby, where to stay in Kraków compares the areas, and where to eat in Kraków lists places to eat. Kraków walking tours start from the Old Town.