Oskar Schindler’s Enamel Factory Museum

Located in the original administrative building of Oskar Schindler’s Enamel Factory, this museum presents the exhibition ‘Kraków under Nazi Occupation 1939–1945,’ offering an immersive experience into the city’s history during World War II. Visitors can explore reconstructed streets, offices, photographs, documents, and personal testimonies that depict daily life under occupation. The museum also highlights the role of Schindler’s factory in saving over 1,000 Jewish workers from deportation to concentration camps. The exhibition is designed to provide a comprehensive understanding of the wartime period in Kraków, emphasizing both the hardships and acts of courage that defined the era.

Planning your visit

Schindler's Factory is not primarily about Oskar Schindler. The permanent exhibition inside his former enamel factory's administrative building is titled "Kraków under Nazi Occupation 1939–1945", and it reconstructs the occupied city — streets, a tram, apartments, offices — using photographs, documents and personal testimony. Schindler's office and the story of the 1,000-plus Jewish workers he saved form one thread within a much broader account of the city under occupation.

The exhibition is dense, largely text and image based, and timed entry is enforced with limited slots, so it sells out regularly. Skip-the-line entry tickets are the practical baseline. Guided tours — private, small-group, or standard — are widely recommended here because the narrative jumps between rooms and the labelling assumes some background knowledge. Several formats extend the day: combinations with the Płaszów concentration camp site nearby, or city golf-cart tours of Kraków that finish at the museum. Current availability is shown below.