Museum of the history of Lublin (Polish: Muzeum Historii Miasta Lublina) – a branch of the Lublin Museum, housed in a historic building – the Cracow gate, built in 1341.

Museum of the history of Lublin was founded in 1965. The permanent exhibition "History" tells about the life and development of Lublin from the 6th century until 1944. The collection includes archaeological finds, icons, portraits of important people.

The first floor of the Museum devoted to the archaeological finds discovered during various excavations. The exhibition located on the second floor, talks about the city's history until the seventeenth century the twentieth century. Here you can see important documents, to meet the urban water supply system, to see the preserved elements of urban decor. The third floor of the Museum of Lublin history tells of the life of the city from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. Among the exhibits: paintings, clocks, symbolic keys to the city, the spoils of war, and images of the city at the turn of the century.

The next floor is dedicated to the life of the city in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Here you can see the portraits of prominent citizens of Lublin, advertising posters, photographs of world war I, the items that appeared during the Second world war: crafts prisoners, kites, ads, identity cards and much more.

On the last floor you can learn about pre-war images of Lublin, and enjoy the modern city through panoramic Windows.