Tripto Guide
Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
169 places
Dobczyce
A few steps from the castle hill in Dobczyce, among old trees in the Old Town quarter, stand six wooden buildings of the Open-Air Museum of Wooden Folk Architecture. It is the ethnographic branch of the Regional PTTK Museum and a stop on t…
Kudowa-Zdrój
On a hill above Pstrążna, a northern district of Kudowa-Zdrój lying close to the border, spreads the Museum of Folk Culture of the Sudetic Foothills. Timber cottages and farm buildings moved here from nearby villages form an intimate open-…
Goczałkowice-Zdrój
In the Manor Park, an extension of the Pszczyna castle park, stand more than a dozen wooden buildings forming the Pszczyna Village Homestead. Created in **1975** on almost two hectares, the open-air museum gathers the most valuable timber…
gmina Warta
In the historic park of Russów, next to the manor house of Maria Dąbrowska, operates the Ethnographic Park run by the District Museum of the Kalisz Land. This small open-air museum gathers timber monuments of the Kalisz region: houses, a c…
Olsztyn
By the Sierpienica river, just before its confluence with the Skrwa, stretch **60 hectares** of the Museum of the Mazovian Countryside — one of the largest open-air museums in Poland. More than **80 buildings** of timber construction from…
Chęciny
At the foot of Chęciny lies Tokarnia — the Ethnographic Park of the Museum of the Kielce Countryside and one of the largest open-air museums of the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship. Founded in **1976**, it arranges dozens of wooden 19th-century…
Katowice
The Silesian Freedom and Solidarity Centre in Katowice's Brynów district is a museum dedicated to the strike and pacification of the Wujek mine of **16 December 1981**, which followed the introduction of martial law. A ZOMO riot platoon at…
Żywiec
In Cięcina, in the Żywiec Beskids, operates **Sopki Stopki** — a wooden settlement where old highlander cottages are being rescued, with sheep grazing beside them. The name joins two things: "sopki" are old, small cottages typical of the Ż…
Złoty Stok
On the edge of Złoty Stok, a few hundred metres from the adits of the local Gold Mine, stands a full-size replica of a medieval mining settlement. The Medieval Mining Settlement, formerly known as the Medieval Park of Technology, recreates…
Goczałkowice-Zdrój
A few steps from the Pszczyna castle, on the park side, stands a complex of buildings where the Hochbergs kept their horses and carriages. The Princely Stables on Basztowa Street were built in the second half of the 19th century and count…
Koniaków
At 1 Piastowska Street in Milówka, a few hundred metres from the market square, stands the oldest monument in this part of the Żywiec region. Stara Chałupa, as locals have called it for years, has the year **1739** carved inside one of its…
gmina Niegowa
In a historic electric mill, almost **100 years old**, at 5 Ofiar Katynia Street in Żarki operates the Museum of Old Crafts. The institution was created by the commune of Żarki and officially opened on **2 August 2015**. The name may sugge…
Kraków
Wawel Lost is a permanent exhibition and an archaeological-architectural reserve housed in a former German building from the 1940s, erected on the site of the old royal kitchens. Visitors walk among the exposed foundations of the oldest st…
gmina Niegowa
A living museum of the Middle Ages in the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland, run by a couple of history enthusiasts — Justyna and Janusz Nowak. The house rule is simple: everything can be touched. Visitors put on an armour and a dress sewn by the…
Zakopane
A few steps from Krupówki street, at Kasprusie 19, stands the wooden Villa "Atma" — the only museum in Poland devoted to Karol Szymanowski. It was here, in the shadow of the Tatra Mountains, that the composer spent the years 1930–1935 and…
Sopot
At the corner of Poniatowskiego street and al. Wojska Polskiego in Sopot stands the Claaszen Villa — a listed residence from the early 20th century that has housed the Museum of Sopot since 2001. Built right by the beach, one of the three…
Smołdzino
Beyond the dunes by Lake Łebsko, in the forest of the Słowiński National Park, stands a concrete relic of pre-war technology: the rocket launch site in Rąbka near Łeba. On this ground the Germans ran a secret experimental proving ground wh…
gmina Niegowa
Beneath the sanctuary of Our Lady of Leśniów, Patroness of Families, in Żarki-Leśniów, in a historic cellar with arched vaults from the early **20th century**, a fossil and mineral exhibition is on display. The collection numbers about **1…
Tum
A dozen or so minutes on foot from the Romanesque collegiate church in Tum, in Kwiatkówek near Łęczyca, stands a farmstead recreating the rural world of the Łęczyca land at the turn of the **19th and 20th centuries**. The open-air museum,…
Zwierzyniec
Over the Wieprz valley, on the edge of the Roztocze region, operates a homestead that has become a symbol of Roztocze museology: Zagroda Guciów — “the museum of what was eaten 100 years ago in the Zamość countryside”. The complex of histor…
Klimkówka
In the village of Łosie near Gorlice, which lived off the maziar trade for centuries, operates the Maziarska Homestead — a Lemko open-air museum and a branch of the Dwory Karwacjanów i Gładyszów Museum in Gorlice. Three wooden buildings fr…
Częstochowa
Just below Jasna Góra, in the Park im. Staszica in Częstochowa, stands a single-storey brick cottage that looks as if it had been moved here from the countryside. In fact it is the Peasant Homestead — a site of the Częstochowa Museum, buil…
Podzamcze
Zamek Legend i Strachów in Podzamcze, next to the ruins of Ogrodzieniec Castle, is an indoor attraction based on legends from the Kraków-Częstochowa Jura. The route leads through a horror-themed set featuring characters such as the black d…
Sandomierz
Beneath a townhouse on the market square known as Konwikt Boboli, with the entrance from Bartolona Street, hides a place where old weapons do not sit behind glass. The Knightly Armoury in Sandomierz, run by the Banner of the Knighthood of…