The Wielkopolska Ethnographic Park is situated at the edge of the village of Dziekanowice, near National Road 5 from Poznań to Gniezno. It is placed in the south-eastern coast of the picturesque Lake Lednica and is one of the largest open air museums in Poland. Its centre is a ring-shaped village of a circular type, composed of original peasant homesteads, mainly of a 19th c. date, which were...

Ostrów Lednicki is an island in Lake Lednica, situated near a route from Poznań to Gniezno. The earliest surviving traces demonstrate that a settlement developed there about 11,000 years ago. In the Early Middle Ages on this island one of the most important strongholds of the first Piast state was built. It was constructed in the second half of the 10th c. at the place of earlier, smaller...

The Śluza Gallery is a space intended for holding temporary exhibitions. Through our exhibitions, we want to talk about contemporary Poznań and how it has been shaped by its past. We believe that the study of the local context enables us to address universal issues which are important not only here and now. The exhibitions at the Śluza Gallery focus on three major themes. Our main focal...

Poznań, known as Pyrlandia, could not do without a place telling the story of its symbol - potato, in Poznan called pyra. We invite you to the only such place in Poland entirely dedicated to potatoes. Potato Museum of Poznan is a modern tourist facility where you can follow an interesting and humorously designed path of didactic care with guides. The Museum also has interactive points where...

Grzybowo is one of the largest strongholds which came into existence in the period of the formation of the Piast state. It was constructed 6 km to the north-east of Września. The stronghold, well-visible in the field, takes up an area of 4.7 ha. Its shape is close to a rectangle with rounded corners. The stronghold is surrounded by a rampart, whose remains are up to 9 metres high. From the...

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 mission of the Museum of the First Piasts at Lednica is to preserve in the collective memory the knowledge of the significance of Ostrów Lednicki and other Early Medieval strongholds in Greater Poland  from the period of the formation of the Polish state. It is also intended to provoke visitors’ interest in the history of Greater Poland’s countryside with its 19 th  c. positivist...