A walk as part of the Mature for Art series: A tour of the Old Town’s hotels

Join us to discover the architecture and the most fascinating stories about Kraków’s hotels! How have their functions changed, who has stayed in them, and what secrets do these extraordinary places harbour? We invite you to join us on a walk with history as our backdrop.

7 August 2026, 11.00 

This walk, part of the Mature for Art series, will take us on a tour of the historic hotels in Kraków’s Old Town. During the tour, we’ll learn about the history of the old townhouses that have been transformed into elegant hotels, their architecture, and the stories associated with these places and the people who have stayed there. We’ll examine how the functions of these buildings have changed over the years and what traces of the past have survived within them to this day. The event will be an opportunity to discover some of the less obvious aspects of Kraków’s history and to view its historic buildings from a slightly different perspective – one that is less familiar to local residents.

Practical information:

• free admission,
• duration: approx. 90 minutes,
• booking required via the Evenea platform (no places available),
• meeting point: in front of the ICC (Rynek Główny 25),
• for further information, please call +48 12 42 42 860 or email: warsztaty@mck.krakow.pl, 
• the event will be held in Polish.  

Host:

Małgorzata Jędrzejczyk, PhD – art historian, curator. She studied art history at the Jagiellonian University, Universität Wien and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Graduate of the interdisciplinary studies programme Environment-Technologie-Society (Jagiellonian University). Author of scientific articles on art and architecture of the 20th century and publications in exhibition catalogs and magazines. Co-editor of an anthology of texts obraz/ciało and the publication "Composing space. Avant-garde sculptures". Co-author and curator of the artistic and scientific program "Exercising Modernity" (Pilecki-Institut Berlin). As part of her doctoral thesis at the Institute of Art History of the Jagiellonian University she is conducting research on the concept of space in the work of Katarzyna Kobro.

This walk is part of the Mature for Art series of events – see the schedule for upcoming events.

We warmly invite you to join us!

*Due to the nature of the walk and the planned visits to locations where there will be no mobile signal, we will not be streaming the event online on this occasion. However, the entire walk will be recorded, and we will send the video to anyone interested after the event. If you would like to receive the recording, please send an email to: warsztaty@mck.krakow.pl.