Muzeum Kamienica Orsettich w Jarosławiu

About the museum

The museum in Jarosław has officially existed since 1925, although collections relating to the history of the town had been gathered since 1902. It was founded as a municipal museum for the 550th anniversary of Jarosław’s location (lokacja), and its first director was Jan Harlender. The institution had several seats, including the town hall and the Attavanti house (kamienica Attavantich) at Rynek 5.

After the Second World War the museum received the Kamienica Orsettich, one of the most beautiful late Renaissance burghers’ houses in Poland. The building takes its name from Wilhelm Orsetti, an Italian merchant and banker from Kraków, who acquired it in the first half of the seventeenth century, attracted by Jarosław’s high rank as a trading town. The house preserves, among other things, the Great Chamber (Wielka Izba) with its original floor, beamed ceiling and fragments of polychromy, as well as interiors from the nineteenth century.

The collections include archaeological finds, crafts, art and mementos relating to the history of the town. The permanent exhibitions present almost twenty thousand years of the history of the Jarosław land and the period of the town’s greatest prosperity in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The museum also runs a branch in the Dzieduszycki palace in Zarzecze, and since 2026 the building on the market square has been closed because of the replacement of its electrical installation.

Highlights

• The late Renaissance Kamienica Orsettich on the market square in Jarosław
• The Great Chamber with original polychromy and beamed ceiling
• Exhibition “Miasto. O jarosławskim Złotym Wieku” (The Town: On Jarosław’s Golden Age)
• Exhibition “Na pograniczu… Najstarsze dzieje ziemi jarosławskiej”
• Branch: Muzeum Dzieduszyckich in the palace in Zarzecze

Permanent exhibitions

• Miasto. O jarosławskim Złotym Wieku – Exhibition on the period of Jarosław’s greatest prosperity in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, when merchants came from all over Europe and the Orient to the fairs.
• Na pograniczu… Najstarsze dzieje ziemi jarosławskiej – A journey through almost twenty thousand years of human history in the Jarosław land, from reindeer hunters to the medieval town.

Founded

1925

Operated by

Powiat Jarosławski

Admission & discounts

Free admission: Thursday: free admission to the permanent exhibitions in both branches (not applicable to selected temporary exhibitions).

Prices from the museum’s price list: standard ticket PLN 20, reduced PLN 10, family PLN 50, combined ticket for both branches PLN 30 and PLN 15. Exemption from the fee applies to, among others, children under 7, museum staff, members of ICOM and ICOMOS, and holders of the Karta Polaka.

Accessibility

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Kids & families

Great for kids & families

• Family tours & workshops

The museum organises museum lessons and workshops for kindergartens and schools (PLN 5 per participant); bookings at rezerwacja@muzeum-jaroslaw.pl.

Getting there & parking

The museum is in the very centre of the Jarosław market square. The branch in Zarzecze lies in the park by the Dzieduszycki palace, and it is easiest to get there by car or public transport from Przeworsk or Jarosław.

Amenities & dining

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