The museum is arranged in the tower of St Catherine’s Church. Its main attraction is a collection of clocks, the oldest built in the Middle Ages. It was here that the first pulsar clock in the world was set in motion in the year 2011. Visitors can also see a clock mechanism with the longest pendulum in the world. On the way up to the vantage point on the tower you will pass the carillon, i.e....

This is one of the spots on the map where the World War Two broke out. The heroic defence of the facility by the employees of the Polish Post on 1 September 1939 went down in history. The Museum portrays the battle as it developed and the fate of the defenders. You can also learn how postal services were organised in the past and get an insight into the day-to-day life in the Free City of...

"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.

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...

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...

Opera Gallery is a joint project of the Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera and the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, spearheaded by the two institutions' respective heads: Waldemar Dąbrowski and Adam Myjak. The gallery features the classics of Polish avant-garde – a generation of artists who laid foundations for Polish modern art. The finest examples include: Tarasin, Gierowski, Dominik,...

Park It has an extensive collection of movable and immovable museum objects. They are gathered in 79 objects of large and small rural architecture from Warmia, Masuria, Powiśle and Little Lithuania, with various functions, structure and structure. These are residential and religious buildings, farm buildings and industrial buildings. The buildings are equipped with exhibits showing...

The idea of establishing a museum in Pruszków emerged in the early 1970s. The endeavour was launched by the then Heritage Conservation Officer for the Warsaw Voivodship – Stefan Woyda ; the impulse to create such an institution came from his discovery, at the end of the 1960s, of the so-called Mazovian Centre of Metallurgy . The museum would assist in advanced archaeological exploration of...

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....