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Białowieża
In a cottage built in 1836 and moved to Budy from near Kleszczele, a wooden chimney still works – according to its owners, the only one of its kind preserved and in use in Poland. The "Sioło Budy" open-air museum is a small farmstead on th…
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Dobczyce
Below the ruins of a royal castle, on a slope above Lake Dobczyce, stand a handful of wooden buildings rescued from flooding and demolition. The open-air section of the PTTK Regional Museum, named after Władysław Kowalski, was created whil…
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Kudowa-Zdrój
On the slope of Pstrążnica hill, between 515 and 595 m above sea level, lies the only open-air museum in Lower Silesia dedicated to wooden folk architecture – the Museum of Folk Culture of the Sudeten Foothills in Pstrążna, a district of t…
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Pszczyna
In the eastern part of Pszczyna's historic park, in the shade of old trees, stands a village that never stood here. Its cottages, barns, granaries and forge were moved from villages around Pszczyna, and since 1975 they have formed the Zagr…
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Russów
The open-air museum in Russów consists of six wooden buildings from the Kalisz countryside, set in the 4-hectare park around Maria Dąbrowska's manor house. The most valuable is the "sołek" – a granary from the second half of the 18th centu…
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Sanok
The Museum of Folk Architecture in Sanok, known locally as the Sanok skansen (open-air museum), is one of the largest open-air museums in Poland. Spread over 38 hectares of hillside above the San River, it brings together more than 180 his…
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Sierpc
The Sierpc open-air museum (say “SHYER-pts”), officially the Museum of the Mazovian Countryside, is one of the largest skansens in Poland. Across about 60 hectares of river meadows stand more than 80 historic buildings: thatched farmhouses…
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Chęciny
The Tokarnia open-air museum (Tokarnia is pronounced roughly "toh-KAR-nyah"), officially the Ethnographic Park of the Museum of the Kielce Countryside, is one of the largest heritage villages in Poland. Spread over more than 65 hectares in…
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Katowice
In the Brynów district of Katowice stands the red-brick former clothing store of the Wujek coal mine. On 16 December 1981, three days after martial law was declared in communist Poland, a special riot-police (ZOMO) platoon fired on strikin…
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Węgierska Górka
In Cięcina, in the Żywiec Beskids, the Stopka family rescues old wooden cottages from across the region and assembles them into a new-old highland hamlet. Next door grazes a flock of several hundred sheep, and in a wooden shepherd's hut sh…
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Jarocin
The Polish Rock Granary is a museum where loudspeakers replace silence. Spread over two floors of a former grain store in the centre of Jarocin, it tells the story of Polish rock music from the 1950s to the present day, built around the fe…
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Złoty Stok
A medieval miner had no electricity to pump water out of the mine – he had his legs. At the Medieval Mining Village in Złoty Stok you can step inside a huge treadwheel and set it turning yourself, then lift a load dozens of times heavier t…
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Pszczyna
The ducal horses of Pszczyna lived in a Gothic Revival hall with rib vaults resting on cast-iron columns, each in one of 36 stalls – the interior looks more like a church than a stable block. The Ducal Stables on ul. Basztowa, a few steps…
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Milówka
The Old Cottage (Stara Chałupa) at 1 Piastowska Street in Milówka is a timber house built in 1739, one of the oldest surviving examples of folk architecture in the Żywiec region. Today it houses a small museum run by the municipal cultural…
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gmina Niegowa
The Old Mill – Museum of Old Crafts (Stary Młyn) in Żarki ("ZHAR-kee") is a hands-on museum set in a nearly century-old electric mill in the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland, a limestone region of southern Poland known for its ruined castles. Ins…
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Kraków
A few metres below the Arcaded Courtyard lies one of the oldest stone buildings in Poland: a pre-Romanesque rotunda shaped like a four-leaf clover, dated by radiocarbon testing to around 970. Lost Wawel is an archaeological and architectur…
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Żarki
The "Time Machine on the Jurassic Trail" in Żarki is a living history museum run by historical re-enactors, where almost nothing sits behind glass. Visitors try on armour and medieval clothing, write with a quill like a scribe, handle weap…
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Zakopane
Karol Szymanowski called it his "beloved highlander's cottage". The composer lived in the wooden Villa Atma on Kasprusie Street, a few minutes' walk from Krupówki, from 1930 to 1935, and finished his ballet Harnasie here. Today it houses t…
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Sopot
Please note (as of October 2026): the Sopot Museum in Claaszen Villa is being renovated. Work is due to finish at the end of 2026, and until then the collections are not on display – events and outdoor exhibitions take place elsewhere in t…
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Maków Podhalański
A single-storey villa with pale rusticated corners, a row of round-arched windows and a porch at the entrance looks more like an estate manager's house than a museum. Yet this is where Maków Podhalański keeps its memory, at 24 ul. 3 Maja:…
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Gorzów Wielkopolski
The Lubusz Museum in Gorzów opened on 8 September 1945 as the first museum in the lands that became part of Poland after the Second World War. Since 1947 it has been based in the Schroeder Villa, an early 20th-century industrialist’s resid…
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Łeba
The Rocket Launch Site at Rąbka ("ROMP-kah"), just west of the Baltic resort of Łeba in northern Poland, is a small open-air museum on the grounds of a secret German rocket test range from World War II. Hidden in the pine forest of Słowińs…
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Żarki
By the churchyard square of the Leśniów sanctuary, in a brick cellar with early 20th-century arched vaults, lies a slice of the Jurassic seabed. The Exhibition of Jurassic Fossils and Minerals displays around 1,000 original specimens, most…
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Warszawa
Zachęta National Gallery of Art (pronounced "zah-HEN-tah") is Poland's leading contemporary art gallery, housed in an elegant 1900 building on Małachowski Square in central Warsaw. There is no permanent display: exhibitions by Polish and i…