Things to do in Gdynia
Gdynia sits on the Gulf of Gdańsk and is the youngest of the Tricity's towns: it received its charter in 1926 and grew within a few years from a fishing village into a major port. The city is known for its modernist architecture, and its historic centre was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2026. Start at Kościuszko Square, where the tall ship Dar Pomorza and the destroyer ORP Błyskawica are moored, then follow the seaside boulevard to Kamienna Góra hill for views over the port and bay. The Emigration Museum tells the story of those who left for overseas, and the Orłowo Cliff is ideal for a coastal walk. One day covers Gdynia, two if you add the beach and museums. From Gdańsk and Sopot take the SKM commuter train, from elsewhere in Poland the train to Gdynia Główna. Visit between May and September.
Map of attractions in Gdynia
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Coast
Gdynia Seaside Boulevard
Gdynia
The Seaside Boulevard (Bulwar Nadmorski) in Gdynia is a promenade of about 1.5 km (1 mile) along the Bay of Gdańsk, running from the city-center beach to the beach at Redłowo beneath the wooded slopes of Kamienna Góra hill. It is one of th…
Free entry
Museums
Experyment Science Center
Gdynia
The Experyment Science Center in Gdynia (pronounced roughly "ex-PEH-ri-ment") is a hands-on science museum in the Pomeranian Science and Technology Park in the Redłowo district – a place where you don't just look at exhibits but touch, tes…
Technical monuments
Dar Młodzieży
Gdynia
Built at the Gdańsk Shipyard, this sail training ship was meant to be the prototype for a series of vessels for Soviet maritime schools — instead it became the successor to the legendary Dar Pomorza, "built through the efforts of Polish yo…
Museums
Dar Pomorza Museum Ship
Gdynia
Dar Pomorza (roughly "dar po-MO-zha," meaning "Gift of Pomerania") is a three-masted full-rigged sailing ship moored at the South Pier in Gdynia, next to Kościuszko Square. Known in Poland as the "White Frigate," she trained generations of…
Viewpoints
Kamienna Góra Hill (Stone Hill)
Gdynia
Kamienna Góra ("ka-MYEN-na GOO-ra," Stone Hill) is a wooded hill right above central Gdynia and the seaside boulevard, with the city's most popular viewpoint. From the terrace beneath a tall cross you look out over the port, the marina, th…
Nature
Orłowo Cliff
Gdynia
The Orłowo Cliff (Klif Orłowski, roughly "kleef or-WOV-skee") in Gdynia is one of the most striking natural sights on Poland's Baltic coast: a steep, crumbling wall of glacial clay that drops straight into the Bay of Gdańsk. It sits on the…
Churches & monasteries
St Michael the Archangel's Church in Gdynia
Gdynia
On the Oksywie heights, on Płk. Stanisława Dąbka Street, stands the small church of St Michael the Archangel – the oldest surviving building in Gdynia and in the whole Tricity. Its story goes back to 1224 and a foundation by Duke Świętopeł…
Old towns & squares
Modernist Centre of Gdynia (UNESCO)
Gdynia
Gdynia's Modernist City Centre is Poland's newest UNESCO World Heritage Site: an entire downtown built between 1926 and 1939 around a brand-new seaport on the Baltic coast. Instead of a single monument, you get a walkable district of pale,…
Free entry
Coast
Orłowo Pier
Gdynia
Today's pier in Orłowo is 180 metres long, but in 1934 it was more than twice that length and competed with Sopot. From the wooden deck you look out over the Gulf of Gdańsk, the Orłowo Cliff and the fishing end of Orłowo, where boats are h…
Museums
Emigration Museum in Gdynia
Gdynia
The Emigration Museum in Gdynia is the only museum in Poland devoted entirely to Polish emigration, set in the historic Maritime Station on the port's French Quay. Before World War II, transatlantic liners left from here for New York and S…
Museums
Naval Museum in Gdynia
Gdynia
The Naval Museum in Gdynia (Muzeum Marynarki Wojennej) is Poland's main museum of naval history, set on the seaside boulevard opposite the city beach. Inside a modern building you'll find a multimedia exhibition on a century of the Polish…
Museums
Gdynia City Museum
Gdynia
The Gdynia City Museum is a municipal museum on the seaside boulevard that tells the story of one of Poland's youngest and most unusual cities – from a Kashubian fishing village to a booming interwar port, through World War II and the anti…
Zoos
Gdynia Aquarium
Gdynia
The map of the Baltic seabed in the Baltic Hall dates back to the opening of this place in 1971, and some of the wall displays from that time are still up to date. Gdynia Aquarium — the official name since 2003 of what visitors often call…
Museums
ORP Błyskawica Destroyer Museum Ship
Gdynia
ORP Błyskawica (pronounced roughly "bwis-ka-VEE-tsa," Polish for "lightning") is a World War II destroyer preserved as a museum ship in Gdynia, moored by Kościuszko Square. She is the oldest surviving destroyer in the world and, according…
Coast
Śródmieście Beach in Gdynia
Gdynia
Few Polish cities have a beach just minutes from their main street. In Gdynia you simply walk down from Kościuszko Square and you are on the sand, looking at the port, the South Pier and the Sea Towers skyscrapers. Śródmieście (City Centre…
Coast
Orłowo Beach, Gdynia
Gdynia
In 1934, soldiers of an army bridge-building battalion from Modlin extended the wooden pier at Orłowo to 430 metres in just two months so that excursion steamers could moor by the beach — at the time Orłowo was competing with neighbouring…
Other
Kościuszko Square (Skwer Kościuszki)
Gdynia
Kościuszko Square (Skwer Kościuszki, roughly "kosh-CHOOSH-ko") is Gdynia's grand promenade, running from the main shopping street, Świętojańska, straight to the sea and the South Pier. This is where the city celebrates, strolls and takes p…
Free entry
Other
Danuta Baduszkowa Musical Theatre in Gdynia
Gdynia
Poland's largest musical theatre is not in Warsaw or Kraków but on Grunwaldzki Square in Gdynia. The Danuta Baduszkowa Musical Theatre has three stages seating more than 1,580 people in total, and in terms of capacity only the Grand Theatr…
Technical monuments
Torpedo Building in Babie Doły
Gdynia
About 300 m off the beach at Babie Doły in Gdynia, a concrete ruin rises from the waters of the Gulf of Gdańsk like a ship run aground. This is the torpedo building – a torpedo assembly and test hall built by the Germans during the Second…