Królikarnia is a Neoclassical palace in the Mokotów district of Warsaw, Poland. Its name comes from its earlier use as a rabbit warren for King Augustus II the Strong. It was built between 1782 and 1786 for Charles Thomatis, Count de Valéry, a theater entrepreneur and chamberlain to Stanisław August Poniatowski. The royal architect Domenico Merlini designed it, modeled on Palladio's Villa Rotonda near Vicenza.
Tadeusz Kościuszko lived there in 1794 during the Kościuszko Uprising. A fire in 1879 partly damaged the palace, and Józef Huss rebuilt it. The Warsaw Uprising destroyed it completely in 1944.
It was rebuilt in 1964, and since 1965 it has housed the Xawery Dunikowski Museum of Sculpture, a branch of the National Museum in Warsaw.
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