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...

Penal Labour Camp Treblinka I functioned from the summer of 1941 to the end of July 1944. The initiator and organizer was the county staroste in Sokołów Podlaski, Ernst Gramss. The commandant of the camp throughout the entire period was Theo van Eupen. German service consisted of about 20 people. They had help from a group of guards (about 100 people) – mainly Ukrainians. Over 20,000...

“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...

National memorial site, commemorating victims of mass executions carried out by Nazis during World War II in the Kampinos Forest.

The Grudziądz Museum was established on 15 June 1884 as the Municipal Museum of Antiquity, which featured mainly archeological relics. Gradually, the collection came to include historical, ethnographic, art, handicraft and numismatic exhibits. In 1956 the Museum was shifted to the baroque building of the former Benedictine convent. At present the Father Dr. Władysław Łęga Museum also...

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...

This charming open-air museum is situated in a picturesque scenery of lush greenery and rustling streams. The reconstructed buildings of the settlement are presented here: huts, gate and partly - a palisade (fence made of wooden piles). All elements of the development were reconstructed exactly in the places where their relics were discovered, i.e. the remains of authentic elements of...

The Archaeological Museum in Kraków is the oldest archaeological museum in Poland. It was created as the Museum of Antiquities under the initiative of intellectuals from Kraków gathered in the Kraków Scientific Society (henceforth: KSS). The deed of appointment of the museum was written on 18th February 1850, designating the members of the founding committee which included: Józef Muczkowski –...

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...

The Royal Łazienki was King Stanisław August’s summer residence, in which a classicist architecture is harmoniously blended with its natural surroundings featuring fabulous gardens. Here, one can not only rest while watching nature but also deepen one’s knowledge of the ideas of the Enlightenment by visiting such gems of the European architecture as: The Palace on the Isle , one of the...