Łódź tells the story of its factories: Piotrkowska street, the Manufaktura complex in Izrael Poznański's former mills and the industrialists' palaces combine a 19th-century atmosphere with art and design. The city also boasts film heritage — the famous Film School and cinema museums.
Technical monuments
Łódź
Manufaktura in Łódź (say "WOODGE") is a vast 19th-century textile factory turned into the city's liveliest destination. Across 27 hectares (67 acres) of red-brick mills built by cotton magnate Izrael Poznański, you'll now find museums, a m…
Museums
Łódź
The Film Museum in Łódź (say "WOODGE") is the only museum in Poland dedicated to the technology, art and culture of cinema. It occupies the 19th-century palace of textile magnate Karol Scheibler, on the edge of the Księży Młyn industrial e…
Museums
Łódź
The Museum of Art in Łódź (Muzeum Sztuki, say "WOODGE") holds one of the oldest avant-garde art collections in the world and is a must for anyone interested in modern art in Poland. It operates across three branches: ms1 in a neo-Renaissan…
Technical monuments
Łódź
OFF Piotrkowska in Łódź (say "WOODGE") is a former 19th-century cotton mill at 138/140 Piotrkowska Street, reborn as one of Poland's best-known creative districts. Between red-brick halls, silver pipes and murals you will find restaurants,…
Palaces
Łódź
The Izrael Poznański Palace in Łódź (say "WOODGE") is the grandest factory owner's residence in Poland and the best place to see how a 19th-century textile boomtown made its fortunes. Locals call it the "Louvre of Łódź." Today it houses th…
Old towns & squares
Łódź
Before Łódź became a city of textile mills and Piotrkowska Street, it was a small farming town gathered around a single square. The Old Market Square (Stary Rynek) is the city's cradle – the first wooden town hall stood here, and in the 19…
Monuments & mounds
Łódź
Before it reached Łódź, it sailed some 12,000 nautical miles – from Tianjin in China to the port of Gdańsk. The mirror-polished, 3.5-metre WOŚP Heart stands on the square named after the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity (Wielka Orkiest…
Historic sites
Łódź
Radegast Station in Łódź (say "WOODGE") is the former railway station from which German occupiers deported the Jews of the Łódź Ghetto, known as Litzmannstadt Ghetto, to the Chełmno (Kulmhof) and Auschwitz-Birkenau death camps. Today it is…
Other
Łódź
It all started with a refusal: the committee of Łódź's Walk of Fame would not give a star to Miś Uszatek (Floppy-Eared Teddy) because – as its chairman Jan Machulski reportedly put it – it was a waste of money on "some teddy bear". Instead…
Zoos
Łódź
Sharks and rays glide over a 26-metre underwater tunnel, and a few steps away lies Kraken, a false gharial that the zoo describes as the largest of his species in Europe. Łódź Zoo was founded in 1938, and in 2022 it opened the Orientarium,…