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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…
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Milicz
For nearly half a century, glass Christmas baubles were hand-blown and hand-painted in Milicz and shipped to every continent; one of the customers is said to have been Walt Disney himself. The factory closed in 2008, but its pattern archiv…
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Poznań
The Armored Warfare Museum in Poznań (Muzeum Broni Pancernej, roughly "MOO-zeh-oom BRO-nee pan-TSER-nay") holds one of Poland's largest collections of tanks and military vehicles, displayed in modern halls in the city's Wola district. A br…
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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…
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Bolesławiec
Since April 2024 the Museum of Ceramics in Bolesławiec has had a new home: the restored Pückler mansion at ul. Zgorzelecka 28/29, set in a revitalised historic park. It is the best place to understand how Bolesławiec stoneware became famou…
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Góra Świętej Anny
The Museum of the Silesian Uprisings stands in woodland on the slope between Leśnica and Góra Świętej Anny – the area of the bloodiest fighting of the Third Silesian Uprising in 1921. A branch of the Museum of Opole Silesia, it holds almos…
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Ziębice
The town hall in the middle of Ziębice’s market square has housed a museum since 1931, and for half a century it was the only museum in Poland specialising in household equipment. According to the museum, its collection of irons is the lar…
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Przemyśl
The Baroque tower on Władycze Street was meant to be the bell tower of a cathedral that was never built — today its bells hang there as exhibits. The Museum of Bells and Pipes in Przemyśl is the only museum in Poland combining bell-foundin…
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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…
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Warszawa
The Fryderyk Chopin Museum in Warsaw is the world's largest museum devoted to the composer, set in the Baroque Ostrogski Castle on a bluff above the Vistula valley. Its multimedia exhibition follows Chopin from his Warsaw childhood to his…
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Ruciane-Nida
The Masurians used to say that the meadow above Lake Nidzkie "prała" – that it smoked with morning mist – and that word gave the Pranie forester's lodge its name. From 1950 to 1953 Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński came here, and in this house…
Technical monuments
Paczków
On 15 July 1977 the last cart of coke at the Paczków gasworks was quenched – not with water, but with a symbolic glass of champagne. That cart, coke and all, now stands in the museum. Paczków has the only site in Poland where the complete…
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Oblęgorek
The Henryk Sienkiewicz Museum in Oblęgorek (say "ob-WEN-go-rek") is the fairy-tale manor house that the Polish nation gave to its most celebrated novelist in 1900. Sienkiewicz, author of Quo Vadis and winner of the 1905 Nobel Prize in Lite…
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Warszawa
The Museum of Polish History in Warsaw (Muzeum Historii Polski) is one of Poland's largest museums, housed in a huge new building inside the Warsaw Citadel. Its mission is to tell a thousand years of Polish history with a focus on the coun…
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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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Tarnów
Your guide to Tarnów's history here is an organ grinder, and the route through the rooms follows a perforated barrel-organ strip packed with curiosities. The Museum of the History of Tarnów and the Region, a branch of the Tarnów Regional M…
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Warszawa
POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw tells the thousand-year story of Jewish life in Poland, from medieval merchants to the present day, and is one of the most important museums in Europe. It stands in Muranów, the heart of…
Palaces
Dukla
The Historical Museum in the Mniszech Palace in Dukla is housed in a late-Baroque magnate residence, one of the best-preserved palaces in southeastern Poland. Its "entre cour et jardin" layout, between a forecourt and a garden, is unique i…
Technical monuments
Chorzów
Until 1934 Chorzów was called Królewska Huta – Royal Ironworks – after the plant around which the town grew. The hall of that ironworks' former power station now houses the Museum of Metallurgy, the first museum in Poland devoted entirely…
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Hajnówka
Hajnówka is one of the centres of Poland's Belarusian minority, and its museum came into being in an unusual way: inside a former sawmill hall, built by local people with money collected among Belarusians on several continents. Constructio…
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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…
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Supraśl
The Museum of Icons in Supraśl, a branch of the Podlasie Museum in Białystok, occupies the former Archimandrites' Palace within an Orthodox monastery with more than five centuries of history. The permanent exhibition "The Icon. Image and W…
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Poznań
The Museum of Musical Instruments in Poznań (Muzeum Instrumentów Muzycznych) is a branch of the National Museum housed in historic townhouses at Stary Rynek 45, on the corner of Woźna Street. The museum describes itself as the only institu…
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Istebna
A highlander from Istebna who studied in Kraków under Mehoffer and Fałat and later in Paris won a bronze medal at an exhibition in Paris in 1937, then spent the last decades of his life working in near obscurity. Jan Wałach (1884–1979), a…