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Museums
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…
Museums
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…
Museums
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…
Museums
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…
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…
Museums
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…
Other
Katowice
The NOSPR building in Katowice, home of the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, is one of Europe's finest modern concert halls and the most striking piece of architecture in the city. Clad in dark brick with vivid red recesses, it st…
Zoos
Międzyzdroje
The Międzyzdroje Oceanarium (roughly "myen-dzy-ZDRO-yeh") is an indoor public aquarium in the heart of Poland's best-known resort on Wolin Island, a short walk from the beach and the pier. Across some 3,000 m² you'll see sharks, moray eels…
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
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…
Churches & monasteries
Sieroszewice
Ołobok, a village in the Sieroszewice municipality about 17 km east of Ostrów Wielkopolski, was home to a convent for more than six centuries – and although the site is sometimes called a Cistercian abbey, it was Cistercian nuns who lived…
Churches & monasteries
Gościkowo
Paradyż Cistercian Abbey (say "PAH-rah-dish"; officially Gościkowo-Paradyż) is a medieval monastery in western Poland and the largest, best-preserved abbey complex in the Lubuskie region. A Gothic church with a lavish Baroque interior, two…
Churches & monasteries
Sulejów
Sulejów Abbey (say "soo-LEH-yoof") is one of the best-preserved Cistercian monasteries in Poland and a showpiece of Romanesque architecture on the Pilica River in central Poland. Its stone Church of St. Thomas Becket, consecrated in 1232,…
Churches & monasteries
Lubiąż
Lubiąż Abbey (roughly "LOO-byonzh") is one of the largest monastic complexes in Europe and a masterpiece of Silesian Baroque: its facade stretches about 223 m (730 ft) and the buildings hold more than 300 rooms. Set above the Oder River ab…
Churches & monasteries
Kraków
Tyniec Abbey (pronounced "TIN-yets") is a Benedictine monastery perched on a white limestone cliff above the Vistula River, within the city limits of Kraków, and one of the oldest abbeys in Poland. Tradition dates its founding to 1044, and…
Other
Białystok
For almost sixty years Białystok's symphony musicians played without a home of their own – in a theatre, in a small palace, in an old hall on Podleśna Street. Today they have one of the most modern music buildings in this part of Europe: a…
Other
Bydgoszcz
The Opera Nova in Bydgoszcz, Poland, is the city's opera house on the Brda River, instantly recognizable by its three white drum-shaped "circles." Its construction famously dragged on for more than 34 years, and today it's one of Poland's…
Museums
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…
Museums
Nysa
The prince-bishops of Wrocław ruled not only a diocese from Nysa but an entire duchy – and they wanted to live like cardinals in Rome. The result is the three-storey, four-winged Bishops' Palace at ul. Biskupa Jarosława 11, counted among t…
Palaces
Kielce
The Palace of the Kraków Bishops in Kielce (say "KYEL-tseh") is the finest historic building in this central Polish city and is often described as the best-preserved early Baroque palace from the first half of the 17th century anywhere in…
Palaces
Choroszcz
The Branicki Palace in Choroszcz (ho-ROSHCH) is a Baroque summer residence that stands on an artificial island surrounded by canals, a short drive from Białystok in northeastern Poland. It was built for the powerful hetman Jan Klemens Bran…
Palaces
Morąg
Dohna Palace in Morąg (MOH-rong, the "ą" is a nasal vowel) is a Renaissance and baroque residence of the Dohna noble family, built in the 16th century, and since 2025 it has housed the Museum of Upper Prussia. The palace stands in the town…
Palaces
Świerklaniec
The palace in Nakło Śląskie looks as if it had been lifted from the English countryside: Tudor-style neo-Gothic, stepped gables and a slender tower raised in 1891. It was built by one of Upper Silesia's richest industrialists, Count Hugo I…
Palaces
Kłodzko
More than a hundred rooms, some 6,000 m² of floor space and sgraffito from 1560 scratched into wet plaster: Gorzanów near Bystrzyca Kłodzka is one of the largest and oldest residences in the Kłodzko Land. It has never burned down or been d…