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,...

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...

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...

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...

TRAFO Center for Contemporary Art was opened in 2013. It is located in Szczecin – the Polish capital of the German-Polish border region Pomerania. TRAFO serves as a multifunctional meeting platform for artists and visitors. It introduces the audience to the tools of art by putting them in various contexts and transdisciplinary relationships. Visual works interact with literature, music,...

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 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...

The National Museum in Krakow is the oldest and largest museum with the adjective "national" in its name in Poland. It was established in 1879 by a resolution of the Krakow City Council. Until the end of World War I, it was the only large museum open to the public in Poland, and to this day it remains the institution with the largest number of collections, buildings and permanent galleries....

The six hectares of green parkland feature original, large-scale devices designed to stimulate thinking and teach, but also to entertain so that learning becomes a pleasure at every age. The devices are arranged in thematic groups covering optics, hydrostatics, acoustics, and mechanics. There are now more than 100 stations among the park’s greenery to perform simple physics experiments in...

The Museum is located in Żywieckie Przedmieście district, in the buildings of a former manufactory and, after 1887, a broadcloth and woollen mill, established by Bielsko clothier Karl Büttner (1833-1884), and later run by his sons, Karl Theodor (1863-1932) and Gustav Adolf (1865-1933). The complex of buildings was gradually expanded. On the plot purchased in 1868, they first erected a...