The Prof. Kazimierz Michałowski Faras Gallery at the National Museum in Warsaw opened after a major redesign in October 2014, thanks to the generosity of the patrons of this project, Wojciech Pawłowski and his family. The Gallery displays an ensemble of over 60 works of paintings from the Faras Cathedral. Also on display are architectural elements, stone parts of the church's decoration and inscriptions, and many other objects, including ceramics. These works of art were acquired by a Polish archaeological mission that worked in Faras, in northern Sudan, just across the border from Egypt between 1961 and 1964 as part of the Nubian Campaign. The aim of the Campaign, conducted under the auspices of UNESCO, was to save and document as many archaeological sites and art monuments as possible in Egypt and Sudan, which were threatened by the construction of the Aswan High Dam.

The Polish mission led by Professor Kazimierz Michałowski - an eminent researcher of antiquities, professor at the University of Warsaw and deputy director for scientific affairs at the National Museum in Warsaw - made some of the most important discoveries of the time. Over the course of four excavation seasons, the cathedral and several buildings close to it were successfully exposed from the desert sands. The biggest discovery was made on the walls of the church - a huge set of wall paintings belonging to the Eastern Christian cultural circle, dating from between the 7th and 14th centuries and preserved in several layers. Thanks to the work of the conservators and all the members of the mission, more than 110 paintings were removed from the walls, and as a result of the division of the finds, which fell to Sudan and Poland - 67 were sent to Warsaw. Work on their conservation continued for several years. Today, in the Faras Gallery, almost all the paintings in the National Museum's collection can be seen, and among them the true masterpieces of ancient Nubian art deserve special attention: St Anne (8th century), St Ammonius, hermit of el-Tuna (8th century), Bishop Petros under the protection of St Peter the Apostle (974-997), Bishop Marianos under the protection of Christ and Our Lady and Child (1005-1036).

The Faras Gallery, the brainchild of Professor Kazimierz Michałowski, was first presented to the public in June 1972. The paintings could be viewed in chronological order. The current Gallery - the author of the scenario was Bożena Mierzejewska, and the designers were Mirosław Orzechowski and Grzegorz Rytel - was conceived as a space to indicate the sacred nature of the works collected there. An effort was made to refer to the original topography of the objects in the temple. The most important role in it is played by the large hall, where we can see paintings from the cathedral's narthex on one side and its apse on the other. In addition to the numerous elements of architectural decoration, arranged in chronological order, the Gallery also displays inscriptions from the cathedral - the foundation inscription from the year 707, as well as tomb inscriptions, objects from the bishops' tombs and many others. Complementing the works from Faras and other archaeological sites in Sudan are artefacts representing Pharaonic, Byzantine, Coptic and Arabic traditions - all of which in some way formed the culture of ancient Nubia. In a separate space, collections of Eastern Church crosses of worship are presented, particularly Ethiopian crosses (especially from the collection of Wacław Korabiewicz), but also Ruthenian encolpions (from the collection of Józef Choynowski).
The gallery therefore presents the entire panorama of Eastern Christian art and is the only gallery of Nubian painting art in Europe.