Collegium Maius - museum of Jagiellonian University
Collegium Maius
In the year 1364 King Casimir the great received the permission of the Pope to establish the university in Cracow.
The Collegium Maius building has been finished around year 1400 due to efforts of Queen Jadwiga, wife of Władysław Jagiełło.
After the second world war the building has been changed to the museum of Polish science, with astronomical tools of university student - Mikołaj Kopernik ( Copernicus )
the golden globe from 1510, apparatus for oxygen liquification constructed by Karol Olszewski ( 1884 ) and the collection of items from the University treasury.
The museum rooms are furnished with the items from the past, so the visitors are able to see the living conditions of professors from 17th -18th centuries, and the big Aula
who nowadays serves as the place of professors meetings, congresses and other official ceremonies.
On the courtyard famous astronomical clock with moving wooden figures that chimes several times a day.