This early 14th century palace holds two permanent exhibitions of the National Museum, Art of Old Poland from the 12th to 18th Centuries and Orthodox Art of the Old Polish Republic. As you could have guessed, both exhibits consist entirely of sacral art from before the idea of 'art' was applied to non-religious subject matter (how many centuries did that take?). Most of it came directly out of Kraków's own churches or others in the region, and most of it is admittedly superb, if that's your thing. If it's not, it's a bit of a snoozefest. The highlight is without doubt the strange 16th century Christ Riding a Donkey, a near life-size wooden sculpture of everyone's favourite model doing just that with vacant eyes and the mule atop a wagon. Eerily beautiful. Also of note is the wooden Madonna from Krużlowa which dates from around 1400.

Admission 12/6zł, family ticket 24zł, audioguide 5zł. Sun free for permanent exhibitions.