Building at 2 Pomorska Street was built between 1931 and 1936 on the initiative of the Association for Defense of Western Borderlands. It housed a dormitory and a tourist hostel for Silesian youth studying and visiting Krakow (hence the name of the Silesian House). On 13 September 1939, the building was occupied by German police formations, and until 17 January 1945, it was the Headquarters...

The story of how the museum came into existence is both interesting and unusual. Not often does one find a secular institution within the walls of a place of worship. The initiative was taken by the PTT branch members, ( ) who had the idea to create a museum and in the process save a deteriorating church. The beginnings of the museum date back to December of 1927, when within the...

“Museum Station” is temporarily located in the building of already closed Warsaw Main Railway Station, placed at Towarowa 3 Street in Warsaw, until its future seat in Odolany, in western part of Warsaw is built. Taking into account the conservation of railway heritage in Poland, Polish State Railways and the Marshal Office of the Mazovia Province decided that it is necessary to establish a...

Prized collections of Krakow Museum of Pharmacy are on display throughout all premises of historical, 14th century building located at Floriańska 25 street, taking up all Gothic cellars, then spread out through the rooms on all three floors, and ending up right at the attic. 

The Nowa Huta Branch of the Archaeological Museum in Kraków is located in a manor and park complex in Branice. The village was first mentioned in written sources in 1250, when Bolesław the Chaste gave the voivode of Kraków Klemens, the son of Sulisław, the right to hunt for beavers in these areas. The archaeological relics, on the other hand, confirm the existence of settlements there as early...

The first Museum of iron & steel industry in Poland

The open-air exhibition of West-Pomeranian narrow-gauge railways is a department of The National Museum in Szczecin. The Heritage The exhibition presents West-Pomeranian narrow-gauge railways rolling stock. The narrow-gauge railways on the Polish side of post-war border were a unique case in Europe in terms of the lines length and density (on the German one, they were dismantled by the...

Nicolaus Copernicus was undoubtedly born in Toruń and, therefore, it is here that two historical tenement houses, which used to belong to Copernicus’ family, house a museum with its exhibitions presenting the great astronomer and his achievements. Owing to major renovation in the years 2017–2018,  the Nicolaus Copernicus’ House gained an unsurpassed new glitter. Today it is a place...

Founded in 2007, LETO Gallery is a major player on the Polish contemporary art scene. Through the unconventional perspective and fearless choices of its founder, Marta Kołakowska, the gallery has established itself as a site of cooperation, education and promotion for the millennial generation of artists, namely, those who came of age after the fall of communism in 1989. The work shown by the...

The gallery is located in two spaces in Poland: in Cmielow, within the old porcelain factory halls, and in Old Town in Krakow. It is a member of the international organization CINOA and the Association of Polish Antiquarians and Art Dealers. One of the key elements of the gallery's program is its commitment to promoting gender equality and eliminating areas of discrimination. Through...