Free museums in Poland

The Radegast train station is a small historic train station in Łódź that was built between 1926 and 1937 and during World War 2 was situated just beyond the boundary of the Łódź Ghetto. The Radegast was the main link of the Ghetto to the world outside and primarily used for the Holocaust transports

The National Museum in Kraków (MNK, Muzeum Narodowe w Krakowie) consists of 21 departments and holds about 780,000 art objects, spanning from classical archeology to modern art, with special focus on Polish painting. This main location houses three permanent galleries of the National Museum in Krako

The Bydgoszcz Canal Museum is a museum in Bydgoszcz that is housed in the Bydgoszcz's Secondary School N°3. The museum celebrates the waterway that connects the city to Berlin. The museum exhibits include old photographs, paintings, sailors' uniforms and other canal-related items, as well as an exhi

The Wroclaw Military Museum is housed in the Wrocław City Arsenal (Arsenał Mikołajski) that dates back to the 15th century. The Wroclaw Military Museum holds a collection with Polish and foreign military artefacts, including melee weapons (17th - 20th century), firearms (19th - 20th century), helmet

The Katyn Museum (Muzeum Katyńskie) in Warsaw houses an exhibition on the prehistory, the development and the consequences of the Katyn massacre, in which around 4,000 Polish officers were murdered in 1940 by the Soviet secret service NKVD. The museum was established in 1993 and is located in the Po

The Leon Wyczółkowski District Museum in Bydgoszcz holds rich archaeological and historical collections. The musuem is named after Leon Wyczółkowski, one of the leading painters of the Young Poland movement, as well as the principal representative of Polish Realism in art of the Interbellum.

The Museum of Independence Traditions is a museum in Łódź with several branches. The museum hols collections of all kinds of memorabilia related to independence traditions, primarily from the Łódź region. The museum is specialized in the history of the German occupation of 1939-1945 in Łódź and the

The Pharmacy Museum in Lublin occupies two rooms. The first exhibits old pharmaceutical furniture with a collection of historical pharmaceutical glass (bottles and jars) and pharmacy related tools. In the second room (laboratory and warehouse) a collection of documents (prescriptions and labels) and

The Brus - Tram Museum in Łódź is housed in a depot and features internal exhibitions that are located in the former administrative building and an external exhibition of tram cars and buses that were used in public transport in Łódź.

Muzeum Bambrów Poznańskich (the Bambr Poznańskie Museum) is a museum in Poznań that is dedicated to the history and culture of Bambrów Poznań.

Geological Museum of the Polish Geological Institute (Muzeum Geologiczne Państwowego Instytutu Geologicznego) is a museum in Warsaw that is housed in a historic building built in 1925-1930. The Geological Museum of the Polish Geological Institute has eight thematic permanent exhibitions: Earth's mat

The Archaeological Museum of Wrocław is one of the seven branches of the City Museum of Wroclaw that holds archaeological pieces from Silesia, from the older Stone Age to the 19th century. The Archaeological Museum of Wrocław is one of the oldest museums of this type in Europe and is housed in the h

The Museum of Bourgeois Art is part of the City Museum of Wrocław and is housed in the Old Town Hall of Wrocław. The museum exhibits the interiors of the building and holds collections of works of art and handicrafts related to Wrocław. Its collection includes paintings, drawings and graphics from t

The Museum of the Theater Henryk Tomaszewski in Wrocław is part of the Wrocław City Museum. The museum illustrates the story of a pantomime and the theatre life of Wrocław. The Museum contains a reproduction of rooms from Henryk Tomaszewski’s apartment with papers, photographs, books and dolls, toys

This branch of the Museum of Independence Traditions is situated inside the Radogoszcz prison, a German Order Police and Gestapo prison in Łódź. The museum commemorates its wartime victims and offers its visitors a chronological journey on the Roads to Independence experienced in Łódź, covering the