Schindler's Factory Museum

Originally an enamelware works (Deutsche Emaillewaren-Fabrik), the building at Lipowa 4 in Podgórze was acquired in 1939 by Oskar Schindler — a German Sudeten-born industrialist and Nazi Party member. By war's end Schindler had used his factory to save approximately 1,200 Jewish workers from extermination at Auschwitz, an act dramatised in Steven Spielberg's 1993 film Schindler's List (largely shot on location in Kraków). The factory closed in 1950 and reopened as a museum in 2010.

The permanent exhibit is not a Schindler biography — it's a city-wide chronological account of Kraków from the German invasion in September 1939 to liberation in January 1945. Across 45 rooms covering 2 floors you walk through reconstructed tram stops, ghetto streets, a Wehrmacht barber shop and the underground resistance press. Schindler's actual office on the 1st floor — preserved with original 1940s furniture — sits halfway through. Allow 2.5 hours end-to-end.

Adult ticket is 32 PLN (~€7.50) in 2026; Mondays free but unguided and crowded — book online 1 week ahead from June to September. Closed first Tuesday of each month. The museum is in Podgórze, across the Vistula from Kazimierz — 18 min walk from Plac Bohaterów Getta tram stop, or tram 3, 19 or 24 to Plac Bohaterów Getta directly. Combine with the nearby MOCAK contemporary art museum (60 m away) for a contrasted afternoon.