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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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Smołdzino
The Museum of the Slovincian Village in Kluki ("KLOO-kee") is an open-air museum on the shore of Lake Łebsko, on Poland's central Baltic coast, where reed-thatched, half-timbered farmhouses stand inside a living village on the very plots w…
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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…
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Włocławek
For almost 120 years Włocławek lived off faience – painted plates, jugs and vases became the city's calling card. In the main building of the Museum of the Kuyavia and Dobrzyń Lands you can see 432 pieces from the town's former factories,…
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Zielona Góra
In the cellars of the Lubusz Land Museum you will find a witch-trial scene and an iron maiden, and a few rooms further on, a collection of winemaking tools from a town that has lived off its vineyards for centuries. This is Zielona Góra's…
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Żnin
The Pałuki Land Museum (Muzeum Ziemi Pałuckiej) in Żnin is the main museum of Pałuki, a small historic region between Greater Poland and Kuyavia in central Poland. Its headquarters occupy the red-brick former town hall of 1906 on Żnin's ma…
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Kletno
More than 40 fossilised dinosaur eggs in four nests, some 70 million years old – according to the museum, this is the only place in Poland where you can see such a collection. The Museum of the Earth in Kletno is a private geological museu…
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Stara Wieś
The Wieluń Land Museum in Wieluń (VYEH-loon) tells the story of the small Polish town that German dive bombers attacked at dawn on September 1, 1939, the first morning of World War II. Housed in a restored 17th-century convent beside the o…
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Złotów
The Museum of the Złotów Land (Muzeum Ziemi Złotowskiej; Złotów is pronounced roughly "ZWOH-toof") is a small regional museum in the town of Złotów in northern Greater Poland, housed in an 18th-century half-timbered townhouse. Its black-an…
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Wieliczka
The Kraków Saltworks Museum in Wieliczka (Muzeum Żup Krakowskich) tells the story of the royal salt company that ran the mines of Wieliczka and Bochnia for centuries. It has two homes: the medieval Saltworks Castle in town and a large unde…
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Gdańsk
The National Maritime Museum in Gdańsk (Narodowe Muzeum Morskie, roughly "nah-ro-DOH-veh MOO-zeh-oom MOR-skyeh") is Poland's leading museum of seafaring, shipbuilding and life at sea. Its headquarters fill three rebuilt granaries on Ołowia…
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Warszawa
In the south-west wing of the Palace of Culture and Science stands the oldest car in Poland, a Cudell from 1899, and next to it an Oldsmobile Curved Dash, the world's first mass-produced automobile. The National Museum of Technology is the…
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Kraków
At the Garden of Experiences you learn physics not from a blackboard but on a swing, at a giant Newton's cradle or while pushing a heavy crate. Named after science-fiction writer Stanisław Lem, the park covers 6 hectares of the Polish Airm…
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Wielka Nieszawka
The Olender Ethnographic Park in Wielka Nieszawka (say "VYEL-kah nyeh-SHAHV-kah") is Poland's first open-air museum devoted to the Olęder, or "Dutch," settlers who drained and farmed the marshy Vistula valley. Spread over more than 5 hecta…
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Olsztyn
The Olsztyn Planetarium and Astronomical Observatory is one of the best family-friendly things to do in Olsztyn, the city where Nicolaus Copernicus once lived and worked. Opened in 1973, the planetarium's dome is a local landmark, but the…
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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…
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Puck
On the Rzucewo headland above the shallow Bay of Puck, Stone Age people hunted seals, caught fish and worked amber. Their settlement proved so important that archaeologists named an entire culture after the village – the Rzucewo culture. T…
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Puck
On the edge of the Darżlubska Forest, in Sławutowo near Puck, a village of the early Slavs from the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries has been recreated. The settlement has eight wooden huts that show how people lived and worked a thousan…
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Stobierna
The Slavic Settlement in Stobierna near Dębica is a timber stronghold on a hilltop, with a palisade, three thatched huts and a watchtower. The reconstruction refers to the 8th–9th centuries, when the Wisłoka valley lay within the state of…
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Bieliny
At the approach to Święty Krzyż from the Bieliny side, the gate of a wooden village is guarded by three pagan deities – Świst, Poświst and Pogoda, who according to old accounts were worshipped on Łysa Góra. Behind the palisade of the Medie…
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Golub-Dobrzyń
In the manor house at Szafarnia the teenage Frédéric Chopin spent his summer holidays in 1824 and 1825. Here he first encountered real folk music, and he wrote funny letters home to his parents in the form of a newspaper – the "Szafarnia C…