The Heritage Interpretation Centre is a place of meetings and talks about Warsaw, especially about the reconstruction of the Old Town, which is inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. However, our activity is not focused only on the issues of destruction and post-war reconstruction. We support and organize a number of events related to world heritage and its mission. We create educational...

The mission of the Museum of Fantastic Art is to popularize the work of artists working in the field of surrealism/fantasy art. Visitors to the museum have the opportunity to compare works of renowned artists, including: Zdzisław Beksiński, Jerzy Duda-Gracz and Wiesław Wałkuski with the works of their successors, who, drawing on the legacy of their predecessors, bring a new quality to...

The museum has over six thousand objects in its collections. The oldest and most valuable are original, 19th-century documents with the signatures of Staszic and Niemcewicz. A separate section is devoted to photographs, postcards, medals and measuring devices. The museum collects archival materials and documents relating to the history of the University, as well as old scientific equipment,...

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...

The Museum of Mazovian Jews is housed in a former synagogue which is often referred to as Płock’s minor synagogue. This is so because the city also had its great synagogue – from 1866 untli the turn of 1950 and 1951, when it was demolished – located opposite the present-day monument to thirteen Poles executed by the Nazis during the Second World War. The construction of the minor,...

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...

The open-air museum of the Vistula settlement in Wiączemin Polski is one of two open-air museums in Poland devoted to the Olender settlement on the Vistula and the only institution of this type in Mazovia. The official opening took place on the 14 th October 2018. Within the open-air museum there are two Olender farms, church, school, cemetery and the so-called Polish house. The last of...

The small building was constructed amidst dense trees at a certain distance from the central buildings of the Royal Łazienki. It was supposed to be a place where its owners could find refuge from everyday hassles and spend time alone with their thoughts.  The Hermitage building stands in the northern part of the garden, near the Jan III Sobieski monument. The Hermitage (ermitage in French -...

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.

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