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The most valuable in Poland and one of the most valuable collections in Europe. Lady with an Ermine by Leonardo da Vinci or Landscape with the Good Samaritan by Rembrandt van Rijn, as well as many other masterpieces not only in the fields of painting, but also sculpture, crafts, military and applied art, can be seen on two floors of the Palace of the Princes Czartoryski Museum and in the computer with him Monastery.

In 1801, Princess Izabela Czartoryska née Flemming created the founder of national souvenirs. The collections she collected were completed in Puławy, in two park pavilions: the Temple of the Sibyl, and from 1809 also in the Gothic House. It was in the Gothic House that Leonardo da Vinci’s Lady with an Ermine and Rembrandt van Rijn’s Landscape with the Good Samaritan were exhibited. To be protected in the Czartoryski collection, which is also a youth portrait of Rafael Santi (lost during the Second Civil War).

The museum did not survive the November Uprising in 1831 – after the emigration of Prince Adam Jerzy Czartoryski – the collections were transported to Paris. They returned to Poland only in 1876, in connection with the planned opening of a museum in Krakow. Significant losses to the collection at the outbreak of World War II. After the war, the museum was taken over by the National Museum in Krakow, and in 1991 it was managed by the Princes Czartoryski Foundation. In December 2016, as part of the order of the Republic of Poland, the Princes Czartoryski collection became an integral part of the National Museum in Krakow. Since the end of 2019, the Princes Czartoryski Museum has been open to visitors again.