Tripto Guide
Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
1746 places
Kazimierz Dolny
Not far from the Nałęczów spa park stands a wooden house in the Zakopane style: single-room, on a high stone foundation, with log-wall construction, a porch supported on pillars and a roof covered with shingles. It was designed in **1905**…
Zamarski
The Museum of Saint John Sarkander is located at 2 Rynek in Skoczów, in a historic building next to the town hall. According to old tradition, John Sarkander — a priest and martyr from Skoczów, canonised in 1995 — was born here in 1576. A…
Wrocław
The Old Jewish Cemetery on Ślężna Street is now a branch of the City Museum of Wrocław and the city’s only surviving necropolis from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The first burial took place here in 1856 and the last in 1942. Ar…
Będzin
The classicist building at Legionów Polskich Street 69 was erected in **1839–1842** as the seat of the Bank of Poland and of the Western Mining District administration; the design is attributed to Franciszek Maria Lanci. From **1889** a mi…
Chełmża
The Museum of Toruń Gingerbread is located at 4 Strumykowa Street in the former factory of Gustav Weese. This is not a museum made up solely of display cases: the history of gingerbread is brought to life through the smell of spices, histo…
Golub-Dobrzyń
The Museum in Brodnica arranges its exhibitions in three historic buildings in the town centre. The main seat is a baroque granary from the **first half of the 17th century** with a decorative Renaissance gable at St James Street. The othe…
Częstochowa
The Częstochowa Museum is the oldest cultural institution of the Częstochowa region. It was founded in **1905** as the Museum of Hygiene, and from **1909** it was housed in an Art Nouveau pavilion in the Stanisław Staszic Park, erected for…
Ozimek
The museum at 10 Zamkowa Street has no direct equivalent in Polish museology: alongside archaeology, history and ethnography it collects memorabilia of Father Jan Dzierżon (**1811–1906**), the father of modern beekeeping, born in Łowkowice…
Lanckorona
At 133 Market Square in Lanckorona stands a wooden cottage housing the Antoni Krajewski Memorial Museum — one of the few buildings that survived the great fire of the town in the 19th century. The museum was founded in **1967** on the init…
Muszyna
The Regional Museum of the Muszyna Estate is housed in the wooden Inn on Krzywa Street 1, at the foot of the hill crowned by castle ruins. The building echoes a former inn of the manor complex below the castle, standing from the turn of th…
Nowy Sącz
The main seat of the Museum of the Sącz Region is the Gothic House at 3 Lwowska Street, within the old-town layout of Nowy Sącz, right next to the basilica. This stone-and-rubble building was raised at the turn of the **15th and 16th centu…
Racibórz
The Museum in Racibórz occupies two adjoining monuments near the Market Square: the former Gothic church of the Dominican Sisters of the Holy Spirit from **1327** at 1 Gimnazjalna Street and the building of the former People’s Bank on Chop…
Tarnowskie Góry
On the first floor of one of the town’s oldest town houses at 1 Market Square operates the Museum in Tarnowskie Góry — the only municipal museum in the Tarnowskie Góry county, with collections of nearly **10,000 objects**: history, art, et…
gmina Mikołajki
In Piecki in the Mrągowo district of Masuria operates a museum built around the collection of an extraordinary woman. Walentyna Dermacka née Sapieha (born **7 August 1922** in Nowogródek), after wartime wandering that included forced labou…
Stara Wieś
In Ożarów, **12 km** from Wieluń, stands a wooden manor house from **1757**, home to the Manor Interiors Museum — a branch of the Museum of the Wieluń Land. The architecture echoes late-Baroque manor design: the log-wall structure rests on…
Radom
On the south-western outskirts of Radom, in the rolling valley of the Mleczna river, stretches an open-air museum covering **32 hectares**. Founded in **1977**, the Radom Village Museum has gathered more than **60 structures** of old archi…
Kudowa-Zdrój
At 46b Zdrojowa Street in the spa town of Kudowa-Zdrój operates a private Toy Museum, opened in **December 2002**. The collection leads visitors from antiquity to the 1980s, though most exhibits come from the 19th and 20th centuries. Child…
gmina Żary
The Lubusz Land Museum is the principal museum of Zielona Góra and one of the older cultural institutions in the region, operating since **1922**. It occupies a former county office building raised in **1889** on Niepodległości Avenue, rig…
Wenecja
The Pałuki Land Museum operates in the heart of the historic Pałuki region, with its main seat in the former town hall (Magistrat) on the market square of Żnin. The red-brick building was raised in **1906** to house the town authorities; t…
gmina Stronie Śląskie
The Museum of Earth in Kletno is a private collection of minerals and fossils assembled by the geologist Arnold Miziołek — a collector's passion that grew into one of the more interesting natural-history attractions of the southern Kłodzko…
Stara Wieś
The Wieluń Land Museum, founded in **1926** by the Polska Macierz Szkolna educational society, is one of the oldest cultural institutions of the Wieluń region and a centre for research into the area's past. Its main seat at 13 Narutowicza…
Wieliczka
The Kraków Saltworks Museum in Wieliczka is a national cultural institution founded in **1951** on the initiative of Alfons Długosz, a teacher from Wieliczka. Its collections hold around **20,000 objects** devoted to the history of salt mi…
Międzybrodzie Bialskie
The Little Beskids is a compact range of the Western Beskids, about **35 km** long and 10–15 km wide, with Czupel (**931 m**) as its highest peak. In winter it offers several friendly slopes near Wadowice and plenty of room for ski touring…
Zakopane
The Tatras are the highest mountains in Poland and the country's most capacious ski area, with Zakopane — the winter capital of Polish winter sports — at its centre. Skiers will find slopes with lifts for every level as well as high-mounta…