"National Museum of Poland" is the common name for several of the country's largest and most notable museums. Poland's National Museum comprises several independent branches, each operating a number of smaller museums. The main branch is the National Museum in Kraków (Polish: Muzeum Narodowe w Krakowie), established in 1879. It has several hundred thousand items in its permanent collections, kept mostly at the Main Building at 3 Maja St., and partly in eight other divisions around the city.[1][2]