Kromer House Museum

Kromer House Museum is a Renessaince tenement townsman house, the headquarters of the Museum of Biecz Land. It impresses with its Renaissance window frames, original ceilings, and entrance portals. The exhibition presented here is dedicated to the history of Biecz and its most famous inhabitant - Marcin Kromer.

Kromer House was built in 1519. What is interesting, it did never belong to the Kromer Family. It is called that because it is the oldest residential building in the city and dates back to the times of Marcin Kromer, scholar, courtier, and also the author of "Opis Polski" (Description of Poland) and "O pochodzeniu i czynach Polaków" (About the origins and deeds of Poles).

Kromer House is built on a rectangular plan and covered with a shake roof. The interior contains barrel vaults and the sculpted portal with the inscribed date - 1612. Exhibition in the museum presents the rich history of Biecz from the prehistoric and ancient times to the prosperity in the period from the late Middle Ages to Renessaince and ending on the times of partitions. Separate exhibitions are dedicated to Marcin Kromer and poet Wacław Potocki.