The Museum of Mazovian Jews is housed in a former synagogue which is often referred to as Płock’s minor synagogue. This is so because the city also had its great synagogue – from 1866 untli the turn of 1950 and 1951, when it was demolished – located opposite the present-day monument to thirteen Poles executed by the Nazis during the Second World War. The construction of the minor,...

The open-air museum of the Vistula settlement in Wiączemin Polski is one of two open-air museums in Poland devoted to the Olender settlement on the Vistula and the only institution of this type in Mazovia. The official opening took place on the 14 th October 2018. Within the open-air museum there are two Olender farms, church, school, cemetery and the so-called Polish house. The last of...

The District Museum in Toruń intends to expand to include a new branch – the Toruń Fortress Museum. It will be created in the Barracks of the Chełmno Gate located next to the city’s Bus Station. Currently, the building is undergoing renovation and construction works. The opening of the Toruń Fortress Museum is planned for 2020. The historic Toruń Fortress was a multidimensional creation and...

The history of the Princes Czartoryski Museum in Kraków began in the City Arsenal in 1874, initiated by Prince Władysław Czartoryski. At that time the building, together with the towers Stolarska and Ciesielska, were handed over for museum purposes, which have been pursued to this day. In 2014-2016, thanks to grants from the National Fund for the Rehabilitation of Kraków's Monuments, and...

The Antonina Leśniewska Museum of Pharmacy was founded in 1985. It has been a division of the Museum of Warsaw since 2002. The museum is named after the founder of the first pharmacy in the world that employed exclusively women. Antonina Leśniewska (1866–1937) took up the (long and eventually successful!) fight for the access to higher education in pharmaceutical sciences for women.

We invite you to the place where Polish museology was born! The Czartoryski Museum in Puławy continues the traditions of the first Polish museum - the Temple of the Sibyl, founded in this city by Princess Izabela Czartoryska née Fleming in 1801. The most beautiful interiors of the Princes Czartoryski Palace present unique, diverse exhibits collected from the end of the 18th century to...

Historical heritage of Złoty Stok and the Museum of the Chamber of Mining. The museum offers an exhibition illustrating the history of gold mining, an expedition to the “Czarna” Adit, a unique collection of geological and mine maps showing the development of mining fields.

Giecz, one of the main strongholds of the Piast monarchy, alongside Poznań, Gniezno, Ostrów Lednicki and Łekno, was constructed in the second half of the 9th c. to the south of the mentioned fortresses. The enlargement of the centre took place in the second half of the 10th c. The invasion of the Czech Duke Břetislav and resettling of inhabitants of the stronghold to Bohemia in 1039 impeded...

The idea of painting the Panorama of the Battle of Racławice, a huge canvas measuring 15 × 114 m, came from Jan Styka (1858–1925) – a well-known artist from Lwów (now Lviv in Ukraine) who invited to a collaboration on this project the excellent painter of battle scenes Wojciech Kossak (1856–1942). They were assisted in that work by other artists: Ludwig Boller, Tadeusz Popiel, Zygmunt...

Also formerly known as the Stone Gate, one of the three entrance gates once led into the city. Built-in the first half of the 14th century. From 1618 to the end of the 19th century, it served as a prison, and then until 1945 as the bell tower of the Holy Spirit and Holy Trinity churches. Between 1952 and 1960, the interior was rebuilt and the exhibition halls opened to the public in 1962....