Museums

Museum in Częstochowa

The Częstochowa Museum is the oldest cultural institution of the Częstochowa region. It was founded in 1905 as the Museum of Hygiene, and from 1909 it was housed in an Art Nouveau pavilion in the Stanisław Staszic Park, erected for the National Exhibition of Industry and Agriculture. From 1913 the institution belonged to the city, gathering natural history and ethnographic collections. In 1976–1995 it operated as the Regional Museum, afterwards returning to the name Częstochowa Museum.

The town hall with a viewing tower

The museum's most representative building is the late-classicist town hall of 1828, built on a square plan after the merger of Old and New Częstochowa. The city handed it over to the museum in 1963, and the permanent exhibitions opened in 1967. After a thorough renovation in 2006, the building gained a lift, adaptations for visitors with disabilities and a viewing tower with a panorama of the town. The town hall presents the exhibition „The History of the Town of Częstochowa” and displays from the series Cabinet of Distinguished Częstochowa Residents.

Galleries and branches

In the historic town house of 1875 at NMP Avenue 47, called the Popówka, the Good Art Gallery operates with the permanent exhibition „Polish Art of the 19th and 20th Centuries”, made accessible in 2013. Visitors can also use the Exhibition Pavilions in the Staszic Park, the Halina Poświatowska Museum, the Museum of Iron Ore Mining and the Archaeological Reserve in Raków, where a Lusatian culture burial ground has been open to visitors since 1965.