Interiors 1ST AND 2ND FLOOR. Interior arrangement af a medium-wealthy middle-class house from the turn of the 20 century introduces on to the atmosphere of Art. Nouveau. The exhibits are furniture, placed according to rules predominant in the period as well as artistic craft: glassware, metal, ceramics. The specific atmosphere of the rooms is emphasized by fabrics: curtains, lambrequins,...

In Sudol near Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski there is an unusual place – the Archaeological Museum and Krzemionki Reserve. Striped flint mines operated here during the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age. The architecture of the prehistoric excavations and the landscape on the surface are an invaluable testimony to the knowledge and technical capabilities of the people of the Stone Age. This unique...

The Main Building of the Nicolaus Copernicus Museum is located in the Former Bishop's Palace on the Cathedral Hill. There was once a residence of the Warmian bishops here. The building was built before 1523, combining a thirteenth-century corner tower (previously housing a cathedral school) and a bishop's house (built in 1480). The palace was rebuilt many times. Currently, it houses the main...

Since 1909, it was owned by Józef Pankiewicz, succeeded by his son Tadeusz (21/11/1908-5/11/1993), who ran it from 1933. Before the war, the customers of the pharmacy, one of four in Podgórze, included both Jewish and Polish residents of the district. It supplied medicines to, among others, the charitable society taking care of the sick, Bikkur Cholim. When in March 1941 the Germans...

On the first and second floor, there are permanent and temporary exhibitions which present world’s biggest collection of works by Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz . They are entitled Witkacy. Paintings – Drawings – Prints + Archival Material and Witkacy otherwise… On the third and fourth floor – In relation to Witkacy , collections of contemporary art, including about 200 of other Polish...

The museum consists of six rooms which present the events of WWII in Kędzierzyn-Koźle and the surrounding area. The main theme is the 15th USAAF’s air campaign against three targets located around Kędzierzyn-Koźle. AG Blechhammer, IG Farben Heydebreck and Schaffgotsch Odertal were chamical plants producing synthetic oil for the Nazi German army; they became American aerial bombing targets....

Arsenal - Main headquarter of the Museum of Prudnik's land is in building adjoining to XV-century City walls and two towers, where in The Middle Age weapons were being stored. Later these antique buildings fulfilled role of the city prison. In XIX century the bigger tower had been modified into tower of pressure supplying local waterworks. In the interwar period , buildings of current museum...

The most valuable collection in Poland, and one of the most valuable ones in Europe. The Lady with an Ermine by Leonardo da Vinci or the Landscape with the Good Samaritan by Rembrandt van Rijn, as well as many other masterpieces of not only painting, but also sculpture, crafts, military, applied arts, can be viewed in 26 exhibition halls, on two floors of the renovated Palace of the Princes...

The Wisłoujście Fortress is the oldest coastal fortress of the Polish seacoast. In the modern times, it is often called the Gate to the Republic of Poland. The impressive fortification protected ships on their way to the port of Gdańsk. It also played the function of a lighthouse, the berthing site of the Polish fleet, and a prison. Wisłoujście Fortress is made up of several rings of...

The Naval Museum has already become a part of Gdynia’s landscape. It is hard to imagine Kościuszko Square without ORP BŁYSKAWICA‘s beautiful silhouette or the Seaside Boulevard (Bulwar Nadmorski) without the Museum’s naval weaponry outdoor exhibition. The Naval Museum is a permanent institution in the service of the community and of its development. It is open to the public. The Museum...