Kraków is considered by many to be the cultural

Culture of Poland

The culture of Poland is closely connected with its intricate 1000 year history Its unique character developed as a result of its geography at the confluence of various European regions...

 capital of Poland

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

. It was named the European Capital of Culture

European Capital of Culture

The European Capital of Culture is a city designated by theEuropean Union for a period of one calendar year during which it organises a series of cultural events with a strong European dimension....

 by European Union

European Union

The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 independent member states which are located primarily in Europe. The EU traces its origins from the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Economic Community , formed by six countries in 1958...

 for the year 2000. The city has some of the best museums in the country and several famous theaters. It became the residence of two Polish Nobel

Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...

 laureates in literature: Wisława Szymborska and Czesław Miłosz, while a third Nobel laureate, the Yugoslav writer Ivo Andric

Ivo Andric

Ivan "Ivo" Andrić was a Yugoslav novelist, short story writer, and the 1961 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. His writings dealt mainly with life in his native Bosnia under the Ottoman Empire...

 also lived and studied in Krakow. It is also a home to one of the world’s oldest universities, the Jagiellonian University

Jagiellonian University

The Jagiellonian University was established in 1364 by Casimir III the Great in Kazimierz . It is the oldest university in Poland, the second oldest university in Central Europe and one of the oldest universities in the world....

 of Kraków

Kraków

Kraków also Krakow, or Cracow , is the second largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in the Lesser Poland region, the city dates back to the 7th century. Kraków has traditionally been one of the leading centres of Polish academic, cultural, and artistic life...

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Museums and National Art Galleries

Kraków has 28 museums as well as a number of art collections and public art galleries.
They are separated into the National and City museums:

The National Museum

National Museum, Kraków

The National Museum in Kraków , established in 1879, is the main branch of Poland's National Museum, which has many permanent collections around the country.-History:...

 established in 1879, which is the main branch of Poland's National Museum with permanent collections around the country, as well as the National Art Collection on Wawel Hill

Wawel Hill

Wawel Hill is the name of a Jurassic limestone outcrop formed about 150 million years ago. It is situated on the left bank of the Vistula River in Kraków, Poland, at an altitude of 228 metres above the sea level. Over the millennia, the hill provided a safe haven for people who settled there since...

 and the Czartoryski Museum

Czartoryski Museum

The Czartoryski Museum and Library is a museum located in Kraków, Poland, founded in Puławy in 1796 by Princess Izabela Czartoryska. The Puławy collections were partly destroyed after the November uprising of 1830–1831 and the subsequent confiscation of the Czartoryskis' property by the Russians...

 featuring works by Leonardo

Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist and writer whose genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance...

 and Rembrandt.

• Wawel Castle
  Wawel Castle
  The Gothic Wawel Castle in Kraków in Poland was built at the behest of Casimir III the Great and consists of a number of structures situated around the central courtyard. In the 14th century it was rebuilt by Jogaila and Jadwiga of Poland. Their reign saw the addition of the tower called the Hen's...
  
   National Art Collection is located at Wawel
  Wawel
  Wawel is an architectural complex erected over many centuries atop a limestone outcrop on the left bank of the Vistula River in Kraków, Poland, at an altitude of 228 metres above the sea level. It is a place of great significance to the Polish people. The Royal Castle with an armoury and the...
  
  , the former residence of three dynasties of Polish monarchs. Royal Chambers feature art, period furniture, Polish and European paintings, collectibles, and an unsurpassed display of the 16th-century monumental Flemish
  Flemish people
  The Flemings or Flemish are the Dutch-speaking inhabitants of Belgium, where they are mostly found in the northern region of Flanders. They are one of two principal cultural-linguistic groups in Belgium, the other being the French-speaking Walloons...
  
   tapestries
  Tapestry
  Tapestry is a form of textile art, traditionally woven on a vertical loom, however it can also be woven on a floor loom as well. It is composed of two sets of interlaced threads, those running parallel to the length and those parallel to the width ; the warp threads are set up under tension on a...
  
  . Wawel Treasury and Armory features Polish royal memorabilia, jewels, applied art, and 15th to 18th century arms. The Wawel Eastern Collection features Turkish
  Turkey
  Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...
  
   tents and military accessories.
• Kraków National Museum with multiple branches in downtown Kraków, is the richest museum in the country with collections consisting of several hundred thousand items kept in big part in the Main Building but also in the nine of its divisions:
  • The Main Building (at 3 Maja St) serves as the chief venue for temporary exhibitions. The gallery of the 20th century Polish art (upstairs) houses nearly 500 works by Polish modern artists.
  • Czartoryski Museum
    Czartoryski Museum
    The Czartoryski Museum and Library is a museum located in Kraków, Poland, founded in Puławy in 1796 by Princess Izabela Czartoryska. The Puławy collections were partly destroyed after the November uprising of 1830–1831 and the subsequent confiscation of the Czartoryskis' property by the Russians...
    
     and Arsenal (at Św. Jana 19), world-famous for Leonardo
    Leonardo da Vinci
    Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist and writer whose genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance...
    
    's painting of Lady with an Ermine
    Lady with an Ermine
    Lady with an Ermine is a painting by Leonardo da Vinci, from around 1489–1490. The subject of the portrait is identified as Cecilia Gallerani, and was probably painted at a time when she was the mistress of Lodovico Sforza, Duke of Milan, and Leonardo was in the service of the Duke.The painting is...
    
    . The museum has other old masters on display including a dramatic landscape by Rembrandt.
  • Manggha
    Manggha
    Manggha is a division of Poland's main branch of National Museum in Kraków.-History:...
    
     Museum of Japanese Art and Technology (at M. Konopnickiej 26)
  • Stanisław Wyspiański Museum (at 11 Szczepanska St)
  • The Gallery of the 19th Century Polish Art in Sukiennice
    Sukiennice Museum
    Sukiennice Museum, a.k.a. Gallery of 19th-Century Polish Art at Sukiennice, is a division of the National Museum, Kraków, Poland. The Gallery is housed on the upper floor of the Sukiennice in the center of the Main Market Square in Old Town Kraków.-History of the collection:The Gallery holds the...
    
    , with the collection of some of the best known paintings and sculptures of the Young Poland
    Young Poland
    Young Poland is a modernist period in Polish visual arts, literature and music, covering roughly the years between 1890 and 1918. It was a result of strong aesthetic opposition to the ideas of Positivism...
    
     movement.
  • Jan Matejko
    Jan Matejko
    Jan Matejko was a Polish painter known for paintings of notable historical Polish political and military events. His most famous works include oil on canvas paintings like Battle of Grunwald, paintings of numerous other battles and court scenes, and a gallery of Polish kings...
    
     Manor
  • Emeryk Hutten Czapski Museum
  • Józef Mehoffer
    Józef Mehoffer
    Józef Mehoffer was a Polish painter and decorative artist, one of the leading artists of the Young Poland movement and one of the most revered Polish artists of his time.-Life:...
    
     Manor

The City of Krakow has a main Historical Museum that also has branches throughout the city:-

• Kraków Museum of History
  Historical Museum of Kraków
  Historical Museum of Kraków a.k.a. Historical Museum of the City of Kraków at the Krzysztofory Palace in Kraków, Poland, was granted the status of an independent institution in 1945...
  
  
  Divisions :
  • The Main Building
    Historical Museum of Kraków
    Historical Museum of Kraków a.k.a. Historical Museum of the City of Kraków at the Krzysztofory Palace in Kraków, Poland, was granted the status of an independent institution in 1945...
    
     (at Main Market Square
    Main Market Square, Kraków
    The Main Market Square in Kraków is the most important market square of the Old Town in Kraków, Poland and a principal urban space located at the center of the city...
    
    , Rynek Główny 35), devoted to the history of the city and its citizens with collections of maps, documents and city stamps, scepters and rings of Lord Mayors, guild objects, portraits of nobility, and the Kraków's famous Christmas cribs
    Kraków szopka
    Kraków szopka , or nativity scene is a Christmas tradition originating from Kraków, Poland, and dating back to the 19th century. An unusual and characteristic feature of the szopka is the use of historical buildings of Kraków as backdrop for the Nativity of Jesus.-History:Nativity scenes, common...
    
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  • Town Hall Tower
  • Barbican
    Barbican of Kraków
    The Kraków barbican is a barbican – a fortified outpost once connected to the city walls. It is a historic gateway leading into the Old Town of Kraków, Poland. The barbican is one of the few remaining relics of the complex network of fortifications and defensive barriers that once encircled the...
    
    
  • Krzysztofory Palace
  • Szołayski Museum
  • The Silesian House also known as Pomorska
    Pomorska
    Pomorska is a building also known as Silesian House in Krakow, Poland. The word Pomorska was for the Krakow 1940s generation a synonym for Gestapo headquarters and operations.-Building:...
    
    
  • History of theatre in Krakow museum
  • Jewish Museum at the Old Synagogue
    Old Synagogue (Kraków)
    Old Synagogue is an Orthodox Jewish synagogue in Kazimierz district of Kraków, Poland. It is the oldest synagogue building still standing in Poland, and one of the most precious landmarks of Jewish architecture in Europe...
    
    
  • Hipolit Manor
  • Celestat, the Residence of the Sharpshooters’ Society
  • Artistic Salon of the District of Zwierzyniec
  • Museum of National Remembrance at "Under the Eagle Pharmacy"
  • History of Nowa Huta
    Nowa Huta
    Nowa Huta - is the easternmost district of Kraków, Poland, . With more than 200,000 inhabitants it is one of the most populous areas of the city.- History :...
    
     Museum

• Collegium Maius Museum of the Jagiellonian University
  Jagiellonian University
  The Jagiellonian University was established in 1364 by Casimir III the Great in Kazimierz . It is the oldest university in Poland, the second oldest university in Central Europe and one of the oldest universities in the world....
  
  . The 15th-century Collegium Maius is the oldest building of the Jagiellonian University featuring ancient lecture rooms, communal halls, former professors’ quarters, library and treasury with the Gothic sceptre
  Sceptre
  A sceptre is a symbolic ornamental rod or wand borne in the hand by a ruling monarch as an item of royal or imperial insignia.-Antiquity:...
  
  s of rector
  Rector
  The word rector has a number of different meanings; it is widely used to refer to an academic, religious or political administrator...
  
  s and the golden ‘Jagiellonian globe
  Globus Jagellonicus
  The Globus Jagellonicus or Jagiellonian globe, made in France and dated to around 1510, is by some considered to be the oldest existing globe to show the Americas...
  
  ’. The exhibits include medieval science instruments, old globes, paintings, collectibles, furniture, coins and medals. (See also: Collegium Novum
  Collegium Novum
  The Collegium Novum is the Neo-Gothic main building of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland, built in 1873-1887. Based on a design by architect Feliks Księżarski to match the oldest building of the University, it was opened for the 500th anniversary of the University's foundation...
  
  )
• Wieliczka Salt Mine, in continuous operation since the 13th century
• Cathedral Museum
• Museum of Archaeology
• Polish Aviation Museum
  Polish Aviation Museum
  Polish Aviation Museum is a large museum of old aircraft and aircraft engines in Kraków, Poland. It is located at the site of the no-longer functional Kraków-Rakowice-Czyżyny Airport. This airfield, established by Austria-Hungary in 1912, is one of the oldest in the world...
  
  
• Archdiocesean Museum
• Museum of Independence
• Armed Effort Museum (by appointment only)
• Museum of Ethnography
• Museum of Pharmacy of the Jagiellonian University
  Jagiellonian University
  The Jagiellonian University was established in 1364 by Casimir III the Great in Kazimierz . It is the oldest university in Poland, the second oldest university in Central Europe and one of the oldest universities in the world....
  
  
• Museum of Geology of the Polish Academy of Sciences
  Polish Academy of Sciences
  The Polish Academy of Sciences, headquartered in Warsaw, is one of two Polish institutions having the nature of an academy of sciences.-History:...
  
  
• Czartoryski Library
• Museum of the Home Army (AK
  Armia Krajowa
  The Armia Krajowa , or Home Army, was the dominant Polish resistance movement in World War II German-occupied Poland. It was formed in February 1942 from the Związek Walki Zbrojnej . Over the next two years, it absorbed most other Polish underground forces...
  
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• Museum of Photography
• Museum of Natural History
• Museum of Zoology
• Rydlówka Manor: museum of the Young Poland
  Young Poland
  Young Poland is a modernist period in Polish visual arts, literature and music, covering roughly the years between 1890 and 1918. It was a result of strong aesthetic opposition to the ideas of Positivism...
  
   movement
• The Cricoteka Centre for Documentation of Tadeusz Kantor
  Tadeusz Kantor
  Tadeusz Kantor was a Polish painter, assemblage artist, set designer and theatre director. Kantor is renowned for his revolutionary theatrical performances in Poland and abroad.- Life and career :...
  
   Art
• Museum of Urban Engineering a.k.a. Transportation Museum
• Galicia Jewish Museum
  Galicia Jewish Museum
  The Galicia Jewish Museum is located in the historical Jewish district Kazimierz in Kraków, Poland. It focuses on the traces of Jewish life and culture that can still be found in the area of the historic Austro-Hungarian province of Galicia located in modern Poland.- History :The Museum was...
  
  
• Muzeum Katedry i Zakładu Anatomii UJ CM http://www.katedra-anatomii.cm-uj.krakow.pl/galeria.php

Festivals

Kraków is home to many different and unique street festivals, parties and parades. Most famous are its Nativity Cribs Festival held every December, the Jewish Culture Festival held at the end of June, International Jazz Festival held in April, Lajkonik Parade during the spring, and a number of indoor festivals held throughout the year. The extended list of Kraków festivals includes:

• International Jazz Festival (April)
• International Film Festival (May)
• Juwenalia Student Festival
  Juwenalia
  Juwenalia is an annual students' holiday in Poland, usually celebrated for three days in late May, before the summer exams, sometimes also at the beginning of June. Juwenalia are celebrated in all colleges in Poland, with different names depending on a school or a city...
  
   (May)
• Lajkonik
  Lajkonik
  The Lajkonik is one of the unofficial symbols of the city of Kraków, Poland. It is represented as a bearded man resembling a Tatar in a characteristic pointed hat, dressed in Mongol attire, with a wooden horse around his waist...
  
   Parade (June)
• Enthronement of the Cock King (June)
• Wreaths (Wianki) Midsummer Festival (June 24)
• Summer in Krakow Festivals (June, July)
  • Summer Jazz Festival
  • Jewish Culture Festival
    Jewish Culture Festival in Kraków
    The Jewish Culture Festival in Kraków is an annual cultural event organized since 1988 in the once Jewish district of Kazimierz by the Jewish Culture Festival Society headed by Janusz Makuch, a self-described meshugeneh, fascinated with all things Jewish...
    
     (June 25 - July 3)
  • Festival of Military Bands
  • Street Theater Festival
  • Music in Old Krakow
  • Krakow Jazz Festival
• International Summer Festival of Organ Music (July - August)
• Folk Art Fair (August)
• International Competition of Contemporary Chamber Music
  (September 16–29)
• Organ Music Festival (October)
• Unsound Festival
  Unsound festival
  Unsound Festival is an annual music festival that takes place in Kraków, Poland, dealing with evolving and mutating forms of music, as well as related visual arts....
  
  , electronic and alternative music (October)
• Zaduszki
  Zaduszki
  Zaduszki is a Polish tradition of lighting candles and visiting the graves of the relatives on All Souls Day. Its origins can be traced to the times of Slavic mythology....
  
   Jazz Festival (November)
• Festival of Animated Film
• Christmas Market ('till December 26)
• Kraków szopka
  Kraków szopka
  Kraków szopka , or nativity scene is a Christmas tradition originating from Kraków, Poland, and dating back to the 19th century. An unusual and characteristic feature of the szopka is the use of historical buildings of Kraków as backdrop for the Nativity of Jesus.-History:Nativity scenes, common...
  
   Nativity Cribs Festival (first Thursday of December)
• New Year's Party at the Main Square
  Main Market Square, Kraków
  The Main Market Square in Kraków is the most important market square of the Old Town in Kraków, Poland and a principal urban space located at the center of the city...
  
   (December 31)

Theatres

Kraków is home to one of nation's most active theatre scenes and some of the oldest continuing performing arts companies. It is considered to be the second largest centre for Polish theatre behind Warsaw

Warsaw

Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River, roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population in 2010 was estimated at 1,716,855 residents with a greater metropolitan area of 2,631,902 residents, making Warsaw the 10th most...

. It is home to both acclaimed productions by companies such as the National Stary Theatre, and the emerging companies supporting new generation of local artists. Among established theatres in Kraków with permanent stages often in buildings of historic significance are:

• National Stary Theatre, a.k.a. The Old Theatre, at 1 Jagielonska St.
• Juliusz Słowacki Theatre, at 1 Sw. Ducha Square
• Bagatela Theatre, at 6 Karmelicka St.
• The Ludowy Theatre
  Ludowy Theatre
  The Ludowy Theatre in Kraków, located at Osiedle Teatralne in District Nowa Huta, opened on December 3, 1955; at a time, when the official policy of Socialist realism came to an end; and, the 1956 de-stalinization of People's Republic of Poland was about to begin...
  
  , a.k.a. The People's Theatre, at os. Teatralne in District Nowa Huta
  Nowa Huta
  Nowa Huta - is the easternmost district of Kraków, Poland, . With more than 200,000 inhabitants it is one of the most populous areas of the city.- History :...
  
  
• Groteska Theatre of Puppetry, at 2 Skarbowa St.
• Theater Scena STU
  Theater Scena STU
  Theater Scena STU is located at 16 Krasinskiego Street in Kraków, Poland. Established in 1966 by Krzysztof Jasiński, it started as a member of a group of nonprofessional student theaters. It is considered to be one of the city's most important cultural institutions....
  
  , at 16 Krasinskiego St.
• Łaźnia Nowa Theatre in Nowa Huta

Music

Opera Krakowska

Opera Krakowska

The Opera Krakowska , located at Lubicz 48 Street in Kraków, Poland, was founded in 1954. The company stages 200 performances each year, including ballet, operettas and musicals for the young, with an audience occupancy rate of 98%...

 one of the leading national opera companies, stages 200 performances each year including ballet, operettas and musicals. It has, in its main repertoire, the greatest world and Polish opera classics. The Opera moved into its first permanent House in the autumn of 2008. It is in charge also of the Summer Festival of Opera and Operetta.

Cracow is home to two major Polish festivals of early music

Early music

Early music is generally understood as comprising all music from the earliest times up to the Renaissance. However, today this term has come to include "any music for which a historically appropriate style of performance must be reconstructed on the basis of surviving scores, treatises,...

 presenting forgotten Baroque oratorios and operas: Opera Rara and Misteria Paschalia. Meanwhile, Capella Cracoviensis runs the Music in Old Cracow International Festival.

Academy of Music in Kraków

Academy of Music in Kraków

The Academy of Music in Kraków is a conservatory located in downtown Kraków, Poland.-History:The Academy, until 1945 as a conservatory under the name Cracow Conservatory or Conservatory of the Music Society, was founded in 1888 by the eminent Polish composer Władysław Żeleński thanks to artistic...

, founded in 1888, is known world-wide as the alma mater of the contemporary Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki

Krzysztof Penderecki

Krzysztof Penderecki , born November 23, 1933 in Dębica) is a Polish composer and conductor. His 1960 avant-garde Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima for string orchestra brought him to international attention, and this success was followed by acclaim for his choral St. Luke Passion. Both these...

, and it is also the only one in Poland to have two winners of the International Chopin Competition in Warsaw among its alumni. The Academy organizes concerts of its students and guests throughout the whole year.

Music organizations and venues include: Kraków Philharmonic

Kraków Philharmonic

The Kraków Philharmonic or the Cracow Philharmonic , is the primary concert hall in Kraków, Poland, named after the renown Polish composer and pianist Karol Szymanowski. It is the home of the Kraków Philharmonic Orchestra....

, Sinfonietta Cracovia (a.k.a. The Orchestra of the Royal City of Kraków), The Polish Radio Choir of Kraków, Organum Academic Choir, Mixed Marian Choir Association (Mieszany Chór Mariański), Krakow Academic Choir of the Jagiellonian University

Jagiellonian University

The Jagiellonian University was established in 1364 by Casimir III the Great in Kazimierz . It is the oldest university in Poland, the second oldest university in Central Europe and one of the oldest universities in the world....

, Krakow Chamber Choir, Amar Corde String Quartet, Consortium Iagellonicum Baroque Orchestra of the Jagiellonian University

Jagiellonian University

The Jagiellonian University was established in 1364 by Casimir III the Great in Kazimierz . It is the oldest university in Poland, the second oldest university in Central Europe and one of the oldest universities in the world....

, Brass Band of T. Sendzimir Steelworks, and Camerata Chamber Orchestra of Radio Kraków

Kraków

Kraków also Krakow, or Cracow , is the second largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in the Lesser Poland region, the city dates back to the 7th century. Kraków has traditionally been one of the leading centres of Polish academic, cultural, and artistic life...

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Cultural Centres

The City of Kraków is the largest public funder of the community arts initiatives among the city districts. Many neighborhoods in Kraków operate publicly sponsored cultural centres with the financial aid from the cultural department of the municipal government. Community centres with their many exhibitions, art classes, educational and music programs are perhaps the most noticeable cultural venues at a local level. They are paid for from the 4% of the budget of the city of Kraków (with revenue of 2,150 million złoty in 2006) allocated to culture and recreational facilities. Among the city’s cultural centres are:

• Nowa Huta Cultural Centre, at Aleja Jana Pawła II 232
• International Centre of Culture, at Rynek Główny 25
• Old-Town Staromiejskie Cultural Centre for Youth, at ul. H. Wietora 13/15
• Białoprądnicki Manor Cultural Centre, at ul. Papiernicza 2
• Catholic Centre, at ul. Wiślna 12
• Rotunda Cultural Centre, at ul. Oleandry 1
• Jewish Cultural Centre, at ul. Meiselsa 17
• Teranga Centre of African Culture and Art, at ul. Kalwaryjska 48
• Kurdwanów Nowy Cultural Centre, at ul. Witosa 39

Nightlife

There are over a hundred pubs and bars in the vicinity of the Kraków Market Square

Main Market Square, Kraków

The Main Market Square in Kraków is the most important market square of the Old Town in Kraków, Poland and a principal urban space located at the center of the city...

 alone, most in the cellars of historic buildings, each with its own intimate character and atmosphere. Many of the establishments are devoted to live music as well. Jazz clubs include: Klinika 35 Blues Club, Harris Piano Jazz Bar, Jazz Club U Muniaka, Pod Jaszczurami Club, Kornet Jazz Club, U Louisa, Rotunda Orlik Club and Piec Arts Club. Popular places to drink, eat, and enjoy, are situated also in the nearby Kazimierz

Kazimierz

Kazimierz is a historical district of Kraków , best known for being home to a Jewish community from the 14th century until the Second World War.-Early history:...

 quarter.

Friday and Saturday nights are the high points of the entertainment week. Live entertainment fits all tastes. Jazz remains very popular and there is no lack of places for fans of rock, modern pop, ballads, including classical music. A number of restaurants in the centre of Kraków can seat more than 100.

Among Jazz musicians with bands are: Reiner Trio, Beale Street Band, Boba Jazz Band, Aleksander Glondys Quartet/Quintet (formerly: Al’Mad), Jazz Band Ball Orchestra, Janusz Witko Quartet, Mr. Bober's Friends, Cracow Swing Quartet, Old Metropolitan Band, Marek Bałata Jazz Singer, Andrzej Cudzich, New Bone, Sebastian Bernatowicz, Jan Pilch, Karolina Styła, Overtime, Piotr Domagała, Ryszard Styła, Jorgos Skolias.

Kraków Klezmer groups include: Kroke

Kroke

KROKE – A Kraków instrumental ensemble of the world music genre. The band's name in Yiddish means Kraków.The band was founded in 1992 by three friends and graduates of the Academy of Music in Kraków. Initially, they were associated with klezmer music with strong Balkan influences...

 and The Cracow Klezmer Band

The Cracow Klezmer Band

The Cracow Klezmer Band was a Polish quartet formed by accordionist and composer Jarosław Bester in 1997. Its sound was different from what most people consider to be klezmer — instead of danceable versions of traditional Yiddish songs, and free-form fantasies and laments, the Cracow Klezmer...

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Selected Folk bands: Krakowiacy Song and Dance Company, Students Highlanders' Ensemble "Skalni", Retro-Circus-Folk Band "Vladimirska", Nowa Huta Song and Dance Ensemble, Highland Folk Group Hamernik, Children's Highland Folk Group Mali Hamernicy and Folk Dance Group Krakowiak.