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....

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.

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.

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 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...

The major role of the museum is to gather and document regional souvenirs (souvenirs from the II World War, medals, books, old documents, photographs of Wiśnicz and even the shackles from the prison in Wiśnicz as well as the only preserved uniform of a prison guard officer from before the Second World War). One of the most valuable exhibits of the museum is the cannon barrel from the 17th...

The Wiślica branch of the museum is an archaeological and historical one. It was created on 20 May 1966 at the initiative of Zespół Badań nad Polskim Średniowieczem (Polish Middle Ages Research Team). The Team opened the new facility primarily with a view to seeking, sharing and popularising the historical objects acquired during the archaeological research conducted between 1949 and 1964. It...

This is the oldest museum in Warmia and Mazury and one of the most interesting cultural institutions in the region of northern Poland, which has approx. 115,000 items in its collection. museum exhibits. The museum is located in the center of the downtown buildings of the Old Town. Its headquarters are: the eastern building of Podzamcze and the western building - the Junior High School....

"National gift" for Henryk Sienkiewicz in 1900 – mansion in Oblęgorek - became the premises of the Museum of Henryk Sienkiewicz in 1958 and on 1st January 1976 – the branch of the National Museum in Kielce.