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Kraków
Opposite Wawel, on the other side of the Vistula, stands a building with an undulating roof designed by the Japanese architect Arata Isozaki. The Manggha Museum of Japanese Art and Technology exists thanks to the film director Andrzej Wajd…
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Warszawa
The Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej, known as MSN) is the newest of the city's major cultural institutions. Since October 2024 it has occupied a striking white building at Marszałkowska 103, right beside the Palac…
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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…
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Kazimierz Dolny
The Museum of Goldsmithing Art in Kazimierz Dolny is a branch of the Vistula Museum that describes itself as the only museum of its kind in Poland. Set in the historic cellars of the museum's main building on the Market Square, it displays…
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Dąbrowa Górnicza
The Sztygarka Town Museum tells the story of the Dąbrowa Basin (Zagłębie Dąbrowskie) in a Neoclassical building at ul. Legionów Polskich 69 in Dąbrowa Górnicza, and its biggest draw is the Training Mine – real underground workings where fu…
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Zakopane
The Tatra Museum (Muzeum Tatrzańskie) in Zakopane is the best place to understand Poland's favorite mountain town before you head into the hills. Its main building on Krupówki (kroo-POOF-kee), the town's busy pedestrian street, tells the s…
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Szczecin
Inside a tram depot from 1913 in Szczecin's Niemierzyn district you will find Stoewer cars, Junak motorcycles, trams and Polish prototype vehicles that never went into production. The Museum of Technology and Transport – known locally as t…
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Toruń
The Museum of Toruń Gingerbread is a branch of the District Museum in Toruń (say "TOR-oon"), opened in 2015 in the former Gustav Weese gingerbread factory on ul. Strumykowa, at the edge of the UNESCO-listed Old Town. It is an interactive,…
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Toruń
The Toruń Fortress Museum (Muzeum Twierdzy Toruń, "moo-ZEH-oom TFYER-dzih TOR-oon") is the newest branch of the city's District Museum, set inside the Chełmno Gate Barracks, a 19th-century Prussian barracks built into the earthen ramparts…
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Poznań
The Poznań Museum of Armaments (Muzeum Uzbrojenia) is an open-air collection of tanks, aircraft, helicopters and artillery inside Citadel Park, the site of the old Prussian Fort Winiary, with a small indoor exhibition in a surviving fort b…
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Brodnica
Brodnica Museum has no single building. Its collections are spread across three historic sites in the old town: the cellars of a Teutonic Knights' castle, a medieval town gate and a granary more than four hundred years old. A visit is real…
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Częstochowa
The Częstochowa Museum (Muzeum Częstochowskie; say "chen-sto-HO-vah") is the city museum of Częstochowa, the southern Polish city best known for the Jasna Góra Monastery and its Black Madonna icon. Its flagship branch is the 19th-century T…
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Kluczbork
Cars drive right underneath the museum building in Kluczbork: in 1931–1932 part of the old castle's ground floor was demolished so a street could run beneath it. Inside is something even more unusual — the Oder bee tree, a fragment of a ho…
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Lanckorona
In 1869 a fire destroyed 79 houses around Lanckorona's market square. The wooden house that has been home to the Professor Antoni Krajewski Museum since 1967 is the only building on the square that survived it. The house itself is the most…
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Muszyna
The "Muszyna State" Regional Museum began in 1958 with keepsakes that local people brought to an old inn below the castle hill. Today it occupies a rebuilt copy of a former 18th-century inn at Krzywa 1 and tells the story of the bishops' "…
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Nowy Sącz
The museum in Nowy Sącz has a history worthy of a novel: its collections went on show for the first time in 1938 in the rebuilt castle, and in January 1945 an exploding ammunition dump reduced the castle – and the exhibits – to rubble. Onl…
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Racibórz
Before she was born, her parents asked the oracle of the goddess Amaunet about their child's fate and were told: "she will live". That is the meaning of the name Djed-Amaunet-ius-ankh – an Egyptian woman who died around 2,800 years ago age…
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Tarnowskie Góry
In August 1683, on his way to relieve Vienna, King Jan III Sobieski stopped in Tarnowskie Góry and said goodbye to Queen Marie Casimire here. Memorabilia of that episode, a painted 17th-century ceiling and a collection of old European pain…
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Piecki
The former home of a collector in Piecki holds Poland's richest privately assembled collection of clay figures by Władysława Prucnal of Medynia Głogowska. Many of the scenes were designed by the founder herself, Walentyna Dermacka née Sapi…
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Warszawa
The Museum of Warsaw (Muzeum Warszawy, pronounced "MOO-zeh-oom var-SHAH-vih") is the Polish capital's main city history museum, housed in eleven connected townhouses on the Old Town Market Square. Instead of a classic timeline, its main ex…
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Nowy Tomyśl
In the town park of Nowy Tomyśl stands a museum that its operator describes as the only one of its kind in Poland: devoted entirely to wicker and hops. It opened in May 1985 as a branch of the National Museum of Agriculture and Agri-Food I…
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Mokrsko
In Ożarów near Wieluń stands a historic wooden gentry manor house: built of larch, with four corner pavilions and a shingled Polish mansard roof. The construction date – 1757 – is carved on a ceiling beam together with the letters L.R. Sin…
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Bydgoszcz
The Land Forces Museum (Muzeum Wojsk Lądowych) in Bydgoszcz is a state museum devoted to Poland's land forces, telling the military story of Pomerania and Kuyavia from 18th-century uprisings through World War II to the Cold War. Outside st…
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Warszawa
The Polish Army Museum in Warsaw (Muzeum Wojska Polskiego) holds the largest collection of military history in Poland, and since 2023 it has been housed in a new building inside the Warsaw Citadel. Its main exhibition, "1000 Years of Polis…