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Ciężkowice
About 200 bird species, hundreds of butterflies, a brown bear and a glass floor over a recreated meadow with amphibians and reptiles – all in a small museum in Ciężkowice. Its collection is the life's work of one family: Dr Włodzimierz Tom…
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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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Drozdowo
In this manor house above the Narew river, nine-year-old Witold Lutosławski wrote his first piano piece, and Roman Dmowski, one of the founders of modern Poland, spent the last months of his life and died on 2 January 1939. Today the forme…
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Olesno
Olesno's museum is housed in a mid-18th-century Baroque townhouse on ulica Jaronia, with a distinctive gable framed by scrolls and topped by a semicircle. It is the easiest place to get to know the town's history – from its first settlers…
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Olkusz
In front of a house on Olkusz's market square stands a statue of a miner holding a sword. Inside the museum behind him is a real sword, known as the executioner's sword. Legend says two miners were beheaded with it for searching for silver…
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Jawor
The Regional Museum in Jawor occupies the former Bernardine monastery at ul. Klasztorna 6, close to the Church of Peace. The Gothic hall church with its cloisters and garth is itself the main exhibit: it preserves a late Gothic cycle of Pa…
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Pińczów
The Regional Museum in Pińczów is the best starting point for exploring the Ponidzie region – and a showcase of a town whose history was shaped by the Reformation, the Polish Brethren and its Jewish community. It occupies a baroque former…
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Stary Sącz
The Regional Museum in Stary Sącz (say "STAH-ri sonch"), named after ethnographer Seweryn Udziela, fills a historic low-roofed house on the market square of this small town in southern Poland, about 100 km (60 miles) southeast of Kraków. I…
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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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Opinogóra Górna
The Museum of Romanticism in Opinogóra (Muzeum Romantyzmu w Opinogórze) is housed in the Krasiński family's neo-Gothic palace, set in an English-style park of about 21 ha. The estate is tied to Zygmunt Krasiński, one of the three great bar…
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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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Cieszyn
The Museum of Cieszyn Silesia is the oldest public museum in Poland and one of the oldest in Central Europe – it was founded in 1802 by the priest Leopold Jan Szersznik, who opened his collections to visitors. Since 1931 it has occupied th…
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Opole
The Museum of Opole Silesia (Muzeum Śląska Opolskiego) is the main museum of the Opole region and one of the oldest in Silesia, founded in 1900. It occupies a handsome Baroque former Jesuit college on Mały Rynek (the "Small Market Square")…
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Sobótka
The Stanisław Dunajewski Ślęża Museum in Sobótka tells the story of a mountain that has drawn people for thousands of years – its ancient beliefs, the nature of the massif and the history of the town at its foot. It occupies the Abbot's Ho…
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Karpacz
The Museum of Sport and Tourism in Karpacz tells how the Karkonosze (Giant Mountains) became the mountains of hikers, lugers and skiers. Its collection holds something you will not see anywhere else in Poland: a full set of participation m…
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Witaszyce
In a Greater Poland village near Jarocin, within the grounds of a neo-Baroque palace from 1899, you'll find something you'd hardly expect here: a collection devoted to "Star Wars". Armour, figures, dioramas and Lego models share the palace…
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Nowa Słupia
In Nowa Słupia, at the foot of Święty Krzyż (Holy Cross Mountain), stands a museum built directly over an archaeological site: beneath its roof lie the remains of ancient bloomery furnaces dating from the 1st to the 3rd century AD. The Mie…
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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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Toruń
The House Under the Star (Kamienica pod Gwiazdą, roughly "kah-mee-EN-ee-tsah pod gvee-AZ-dohn") is one of the most striking buildings on Toruń's Old Town Market Square and home to the Museum of Asian Art. Behind a Baroque facade covered in…
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Kraków
Opposite Wawel, on the other side of the Vistula, stands a building with an undulating roof designed by the Japanese architect Arata Isozaki. The Manggha Museum of Japanese Art and Technology exists thanks to the film director Andrzej Wajd…
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Warszawa
The Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej, known as MSN) is the newest of the city's major cultural institutions. Since October 2024 it has occupied a striking white building at Marszałkowska 103, right beside the Palac…
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Łódź
The Museum of Art in Łódź (Muzeum Sztuki, say "WOODGE") holds one of the oldest avant-garde art collections in the world and is a must for anyone interested in modern art in Poland. It operates across three branches: ms1 in a neo-Renaissan…
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Kazimierz Dolny
The Museum of Goldsmithing Art in Kazimierz Dolny is a branch of the Vistula Museum that describes itself as the only museum of its kind in Poland. Set in the historic cellars of the museum's main building on the Market Square, it displays…