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Museums
Poznań
The Greater Poland Uprising Museum in Poznań occupies the elegant 18th-century Guardhouse (Odwach, say "OD-vahh") in the middle of the Old Market Square, right next to the Town Hall. It tells the story of the 1918–1919 uprising that brough…
Museums
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…
Museums
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…
Museums
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…
Museums
Poznań
The Poznań Museum of Armaments (Muzeum Uzbrojenia) is an open-air collection of tanks, aircraft, helicopters and artillery inside Citadel Park, the site of the old Prussian Fort Winiary, with a small indoor exhibition in a surviving fort b…
Museums
Nowy Tomyśl
In the town park of Nowy Tomyśl stands a museum that its operator describes as the only one of its kind in Poland: devoted entirely to wicker and hops. It opened in May 1985 as a branch of the National Museum of Agriculture and Agri-Food I…
Museums
Gniezno
The Museum of Technical Heritage is a small private museum of motorcycles and old technology in the former cavalry barracks on Wrzesińska Street in Gniezno. It is run by enthusiasts from the ClassiC Gniezno Association, who restore the exh…
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…
Landscape parks
Policko
Warta Landscape Park (Nadwarciański Park Krajobrazowy) is one of the best places in western Poland for birdwatching, a broad floodplain of the Warta River between the small towns of Pyzdry and Ląd (pronounced "lont"). There is no ticket ga…
Zoos
Poznań
Poznań New Zoo (Nowe Zoo) is a woodland zoo on the eastern edge of central Poznań, opened in 1974 and covering about 120 hectares of hilly forest with six ponds. It is Poland's second-largest zoo by area. Instead of compact cages you get b…
Gardens
Poznań
In western Poznań, in the district that took its name from it – Ogrody, "Gardens" – about 22 hectares of plant collections from around the world spread out. The Adam Mickiewicz University Botanical Garden is both a research institution and…
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…
Nature
Biedrusko
Just 15 km from central Poznań, on the road to Biedrusko, a wooden watermill rebuilt the traditional way – without a single nail – stands beside a 3-hectare pond. Since July 2011 it has housed the Łysy Młyn Forest Education Centre of the Ł…
Old towns & squares
Poznań
Ostrów Tumski (say "OSS-troof TOOM-skee"), Poznań's Cathedral Island, is where the story of Poland began. On this island between the Warta and Cybina rivers stood the stronghold of Mieszko I, the first historical ruler of Poland; here the…
Amusement parks
Lubnica
A beetle, a spider, a butterfly and a praying mantis the size of a car: in Lubnica, in the Okonek district, insects are shown magnified up to 200 times. Owadogigant is a family amusement park on the edge of the Drawa Landscape Park, where…
Palaces
Jankowice
Jankowice Palace, about 20 km west of central Poznań, began life as a strikingly modern villa built for a Swedish diplomat. Today it is a municipal cultural centre with an 18.5-hectare park that is open around the clock. Between the palace…
Palaces
Jarocin
The Radoliński Palace in Jarocin (pronounced "yah-ROH-tseen") is a castle-like Gothic Revival mansion with battlements and turrets, set in a historic park in the middle of a small town in western Poland. It was designed by Friedrich August…
Palaces
Ciążeń
The late Baroque palace of the Bishops of Poznań in Ciążeń on the Warta is one of the largest and most interesting Rococo ensembles in Greater Poland. The three-storey building with a mansard roof, a gallery and an annexe stands in a park…
Palaces
Dobrzyca
Dobrzyca Palace (say "dob-ZHIH-tsah") is an elegant Neoclassical country house in the Greater Poland region of western Poland, built in 1798–1799 for General Augustyn Gorzeński, an aide to Poland's last king, Stanisław August. Designed by…
Palaces
Kopaszewo
In 1831–1832 the poet Adam Mickiewicz stayed several times with the Skórzewski family in Kopaszewo, and according to the National Heritage Board parts of his epic "Pan Tadeusz" were written here. The Neoclassical palace of 1800–1801 stands…
Palaces
Lewków
Lewków Palace ("LEV-koof"), just outside Ostrów Wielkopolski in western Poland, is one of the earliest classical-style palaces in the Greater Poland region and today a well-presented museum. Its design is attributed to Jan Christian Kamset…
Palaces
Pawłowice
Pawłowice Palace (roughly "pav-woh-VEE-tseh"), near the town of Leszno in western Poland, is one of the finest Neoclassical country houses in the Greater Poland region. It was designed by Carl Gotthard Langhans, the architect of Berlin's B…
Palaces
Rogalin
Rogalin Palace (say "ro-GAH-leen") is the former country seat of the aristocratic Raczyński family on the Warta River, about 20 km south of Poznań. Now a branch of the National Museum in Poznań, it combines three highlights in one visit: p…
Palaces
Śmiełów
Śmiełów Palace (roughly "SHMYEH-woof") is an elegant late-18th-century country house in Greater Poland that now holds the Adam Mickiewicz Museum, a branch of the National Museum in Poznań. Mickiewicz is to Poland roughly what Byron or Push…