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Churches & monasteries
Przechlewo
Seen from the tower end, St Anne's Church in Przechlewo looks like a village church of timber framing and wood; from the chancel end, like a red-brick neo-Gothic church. It is really two buildings grown into one: a half-timbered nave from…
Churches & monasteries
Człuchów
Człuchów's parish church has an unusual shape because in 1926 it was turned through 90 degrees. A new nave was built at right angles to the Baroque church of 1647, and the old nave became a transept. Inside, Baroque furnishings from the 17…
Churches & monasteries
Malbork
The Gothic parish church of the old town stands right below the castle, beside the Nogat, and is one of the few medieval buildings in Malbork that survived 1945. There has been a parish here since the late 13th century, and the present hal…
Churches & monasteries
Bytów
A tall tower with an arcaded gallery rises above the centre of Bytów and can be seen from the castle hill. The church was built in the mid-19th century for the Lutheran community, modelled on St Matthew's Church in Berlin, and after the wa…
Churches & monasteries
Gdańsk
St Catherine's Church in Gdańsk is the oldest parish church of the city's Old Town: a Gothic brick building with a Baroque spire, standing opposite the Great Mill. The great 17th-century astronomer Johannes Hevelius is commemorated here, a…
Churches & monasteries
Gdynia
On the Oksywie heights, on Płk. Stanisława Dąbka Street, stands the small church of St Michael the Archangel – the oldest surviving building in Gdynia and in the whole Tricity. Its story goes back to 1224 and a foundation by Duke Świętopeł…
Churches & monasteries
Somonino
A stone plaque on the east wall of the church in Goręczyno carries a Latin inscription: the building was raised in 1639 to the glory of the Holy Trinity and All Saints, in the time of Brother Kasper Kochelius, procurator of the Carthusians…
Zoos
Dębki
A tropical greenhouse a few steps from the beach, filled with hundreds of exotic butterflies that fly freely and land on visitors' hands, clothes and bags. The seasonal butterfly house at ul. Spacerowa 3a in Dębki opens only in the summer…
Zoos
Władysławowo
In the port of Władysławowo, on ul. Hryniewieckiego, a tropical microclimate reigns in summer, and hundreds of butterflies from all over the world fly freely among exotic plants. There are no display cases or terrariums – the insects settl…
Museums
Pelplin
In Pelplin you can see Poland's only copy of the Gutenberg Bible – the first major book printed in Europe with movable type, around 1455 in Mainz. Since March 2025 the original has been on permanent display. Before that, for more than 20 y…
Museums
Gdańsk
The Amber Museum in Gdańsk is the city's showcase for Baltic amber – "Baltic gold" – from drops of resin formed millions of years ago to contemporary jewelry. A branch of the Museum of Gdańsk, it has occupied the Great Mill, a medieval mil…
Museums
Gdynia
The Emigration Museum in Gdynia is the only museum in Poland devoted entirely to Polish emigration, set in the historic Maritime Station on the port's French Quay. Before World War II, transatlantic liners left from here for New York and S…
Museums
Gdańsk
The Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk is one of the largest and most ambitious history museums in Europe, telling the story of the war in the very city where it began. Its tilted red tower beside the Radunia Canal marks an exhibitio…
Museums
Gdynia
The Naval Museum in Gdynia (Muzeum Marynarki Wojennej) is Poland's main museum of naval history, set on the seaside boulevard opposite the city beach. Inside a modern building you'll find a multimedia exhibition on a century of the Polish…
Museums
Gdynia
The Gdynia City Museum is a municipal museum on the seaside boulevard that tells the story of one of Poland's youngest and most unusual cities – from a Kashubian fishing village to a booming interwar port, through World War II and the anti…
Museums
Gdańsk
The National Museum in Gdańsk – Department of Early Art is the city's most important art museum, housed in a late-Gothic Franciscan monastery on Toruńska Street, a few minutes' walk from the Main Town. It is famous as the home of Hans Meml…
Museums
Hel
The Museum of Coastal Defence in Hel occupies the concrete bunkers of a former German coastal battery, "Schleswig-Holstein," hidden in the pine forest at the entrance to Hel, the town at the tip of Poland's Hel Peninsula, north of Gdańsk.…
Museums
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…
Zoos
Gdynia
The map of the Baltic seabed in the Baltic Hall dates back to the opening of this place in 1971, and some of the wall displays from that time are still up to date. Gdynia Aquarium — the official name since 2003 of what visitors often call…
Museums
Sopot
The State Art Gallery in Sopot (Państwowa Galeria Sztuki, PGS) is one of the leading contemporary art venues in northern Poland, housed in the Spa House on Spa Square – just steps from the entrance to the famous Sopot pier. Its roughly 1,2…
Zoos
Władysławowo
The Bird House (Ptaszarnia) in the port of Władysławowo is the opposite of a typical parrot house. In a large covered tent at Hryniewieckiego 1, among tropical greenery, live more than a hundred small exotic birds – they do not land on you…
Landmarks
Gdańsk
The Main Town Hall in Gdańsk is the city's most recognizable landmark: a Gothic and Renaissance brick building whose slender tower, crowned by a gilded statue of King Sigismund Augustus, rises above Long Street and Long Market. Inside is t…
Historic sites
Gdańsk
The BHP Hall of the Gdańsk Shipyard (Sala BHP, pronounced "SAH-lah beh-hah-PEH") is a modest brick building inside the former shipyard where, on August 31, 1980, striking workers and the communist government signed the August Agreements –…
Other
Gdynia
Poland's largest musical theatre is not in Warsaw or Kraków but on Grunwaldzki Square in Gdynia. The Danuta Baduszkowa Musical Theatre has three stages seating more than 1,580 people in total, and in terms of capacity only the Grand Theatr…