The Manggha Museum of Japanese Art and Technology, created on the initiative of Andrzej Wajda and opened in 1994 as the Manggha Centre of Japanese Art and Technology, was a branch of the National Museum in Krakow for ten years, and at the same time the venue of the proactive activities of the Andrzej Wajda and Krystyna Zachwatowicz Kyoto–Krakow Foundation. In 2005, the Decision of the Minister of Culture granted the Manggha autonomy, changing its status to that of a state cultural institution, and since 2007 it has operated as a museum.

In accordance with the Founders’ idea, the Manggha was intended as the ‘home for the collection of Japanese art’ amassed mostly by Feliks ‘Manggha’ Jasieński, and from 1920 kept at the National Museum in Krakow. The Collection of Far Eastern Art of the National Museum in Krakow was definitively deposited with the Manggha Museum in 2009.