National Museum, Gdańsk

The National Museum in Gdańsk (Polish: Muzeum Narodowe w Gdańsku), established in 1972 in Gdańsk (although the history goes back the third quarter of 19th century), is one of the main branches of Poland's national museum system.

Its main location is in the old late-Gothic Franciscan monastery, which has been used to house exhibits since the end of the 19th century.

During that period it was known as Danziger Stadtmuseum, which held a sizeable collection of historical works of art.

[1] The core of the museum's collection constitutes the collection of Jacob Kabrun, which includes several thousand pictures, drawings and prints by European masters from the end of the fifteenth to the beginning of the nineteenth centuries.

In 1956, Hans Memling's masterpiece Last Judgment returned to Gdańsk as well as part of the collections of paintings and prints.

Green Gate in Gdańsk
Interior of the museum's main building