Tripto Guide
Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
169 places
Jawor
A few steps from the famous **Church of Peace**, in the former **Bernardine monastery complex from the 15th century**, operates the **Regional Museum in Jawor** — one of the best-preserved late-Gothic monastic complexes of Lower Silesia, t…
Pińczów
The Regional Museum in Pińczów has operated since **1963** in a former Pauline monastery in the town centre at Piłsudskiego Street 2a, next to the church of St John the Evangelist. The monastery itself dates back to **1431–1449** and recei…
Nowy Sącz
The Regional Museum in Stary Sącz is housed in a historic 17th-century burgher house by the market square, known as the „Dom na Dołkach”. It is run by the Society of Friends of Stary Sącz, initiated by the collector and antiquarian Józef P…
Drohiczyn
The Museum of Agriculture named after Fr Krzysztof Kluk in Ciechanowiec is one of only two agricultural museums in Poland — the other one operates in Szreniawa near Poznań. Several dozen permanent exhibitions present about **30,000 exhibit…
Cieszyn
The Museum of Cieszyn Silesia, founded in **1802** by Fr Leopold Jan Szersznik, is the oldest public museum in Poland and one of the oldest in Central Europe. Fr Szersznik then made his own library and museum collections available to the p…
gmina Przygodzice
In Witaszyce near Jarocin, an 18th-century manor house neighbouring a neo-baroque palace from **1899** houses the largest private Star Wars collection in Poland. Assembled by the owner of the palace, it numbers around **1,000 exhibits** —…
Święta Katarzyna
In antiquity the Holy Cross Mountains were — outside the Roman Empire — the largest iron-smelting centre in Europe. In bloomery furnaces, one-off clay constructions, the inhabitants of these lands of the Przeworsk culture smelted metal, se…
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…