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Szczucin
The Road Museum in Szczucin (roughly "SHCHOO-cheen") is one of the most unusual free things to do in southern Poland: an open-air collection of steam rollers, snowplows and road-building machines, plus a walking trail that takes you throug…
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Zielona Góra
The open-air museum in Ochla (pronounced roughly "OH-khlah"), officially the Ethnographic Museum in Zielona Góra, is a large skansen on the southern edge of the city: nearly 80 historic village buildings spread over about 13 hectares in th…
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Toruń
The Ethnographic Museum in Toruń (Muzeum Etnograficzne, named after Maria Znamierowska-Prüfferowa) is an open-air museum right in the city center: a park of thatched wooden cottages, a post windmill, a watermill and a smithy, just outside…
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Opatówek
The Museum of the History of Industry in Opatówek occupies the Fiedler family's neoclassical cloth factory, built in 1824–1826 – a building that is itself a monument of technology. Its timber frame survives across five storeys together wit…
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Kolbuszowa
The Museum of Folk Culture in Kolbuszowa, and above all its Ethnographic Park, is one of the largest open-air museums in southeastern Poland. On almost 30 hectares beside the small Nil River stand more than 80 wooden buildings: thatched co…
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Osiek nad Notecią
The Museum of Folk Culture in Osiek nad Notecią (OH-shek nad no-TEH-chohn) is a peaceful open-air museum of village life in northern Wielkopolska (Greater Poland). Spread over 13 hectares (32 acres), it brings together 28 historic building…
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Bydgoszcz
The Museum of Soap and History of Dirt (Muzeum Mydła i Historii Brudu) in Bydgoszcz is one of Poland's quirkiest museums and a genuinely fun stop in the city's compact Old Town. Instead of glass cases, you get a hands-on workshop where you…
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Toruń
The Tony Halik Travelers' Museum (Muzeum Podróżników, "moo-ZEH-oom pod-roo-ZHNEE-kov") in Toruń is a small, colorful museum devoted to one of Poland's best-known TV explorers, who was born in this city, and to journeys across Latin America…
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Ustrzyki Dolne
The Bieszczady National Park Nature Museum in Ustrzyki Dolne ("oo-STSHI-kee DOL-neh") is the best place to understand the Bieszczady Mountains in about an hour: how they formed, who lived here and which animals roam the beech forests and h…
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Kazimierz Dolny
The Natural History Museum in Kazimierz Dolny occupies a striking late-16th-century granary on the Vistula, and it is one of the best things to do in Kazimierz Dolny with kids or on a rainy day. Inside, exhibits explain the river gorge, th…
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Uzarzewo
The Natural History and Hunting Museum in Uzarzewo (say "oo-zah-ZHEH-vo") is a family-friendly museum in a 19th-century palace set in landscaped parkland about 15 km east of Poznań, in western Poland. It traces hunting from the Stone Age t…
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Szreniawa
The National Museum of Agriculture in Szreniawa (shreh-NYAH-vah), a village just southwest of Poznań in western Poland, is the country's only agricultural museum of national rank and one of the largest of its kind in Europe. Set on a histo…
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Świnoujście
The Sea Fishing Museum (Muzeum Rybołówstwa Morskiego) in Świnoujście occupies the town's oldest building, the former town hall from the early 1800s on Plac Rybaka (Fisherman's Square), right by the Świna River waterfront. It is a compact m…
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Skoczów
In the cellar of the house at Rynek 2, right next to Skoczów town hall, John Sarkander was born according to 17th-century accounts. He was a priest tortured to death in Olomouc in 1620 and canonised by John Paul II in 1995. Today the cella…
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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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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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Lublin
The Lublin Open-Air Village Museum (Muzeum Wsi Lubelskiej) is one of the largest open-air museums in Poland: around 27 hectares (67 acres) of wooden cottages, manor houses, windmills, an Eastern Catholic church and a reconstructed prewar s…
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Radom
The Radom Village Museum (Muzeum Wsi Radomskiej) is an open-air museum on the southwestern edge of Radom, a city about 100 km south of Warsaw. Spread across 32 hectares of the rolling Mleczna river valley, it brings together more than 60 h…
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Kielce
A witch on a broomstick sits on the clock tower on Wolności Square in Kielce. Beneath her, in a 19th-century former market hall, is the Museum of Toys and Play – one of Poland's oldest and largest toy museums, where children play and adult…
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Kudowa-Zdrój
Behind the fence at 46b Zdrojowa Street, in a small house with a mansard roof, live more than 5,500 toys – from figurines two thousand years old to video game consoles. The Toy Museum in Kudowa-Zdrój opened in December 2002 as the first pr…
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Gniezno
The Museum of Technical Heritage is a small private museum of motorcycles and old technology in the former cavalry barracks on Wrzesińska Street in Gniezno. It is run by enthusiasts from the ClassiC Gniezno Association, who restore the exh…