The Art Department houses a rich collection of outstanding works which comprises about 15,000 exhibits. The following collections are of great value: the collection of foreign painting which includes the Dąmbski gallery (featuring paintings from Western Europe) and the Gallery of Polish Painting. The department also showcases a collection of Polish and European graphics, a small collection of 18th-century graphics by foreign artists as well as handicraft objects – furniture, ceramics, porcelain and earthenware, glass, silver, tin and a set of hanging brass candleholders from the 17th–18th century, items of clothing (including a collection of elegant female clothes) as well as fabrics, embroidery, lace and a rare collection of jewellery to accompany kontusz, a type of garment. The Art Department also houses works produced after 1945 (oil paintings, drawings, graphics, artistic photographs, and sculptures).
Cheek cheek with cover, Belarus /, c. 1740, glass
Cloak belt, France, Lyon, c. 18th century, silk solid
Allegory of Spring, Martino Altomonte, Vienna (?), After 1716, oil / canvas
Jewelery for Polish costume; Silver belt, Wroclaw, begining 18th century, bones to the crouch, Poland, after 1866, gilded gold, school / comet shape, Vienna, after 1866, gilded silver, turquoise and amethyst
Portrait of Henryka Soroko – Labordaire, S.I Witkiewicz (Witkacy), Poland, 1929, pastel / paper
Love, Edward Wittig, Paris (?), 1908, bronze