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M u s e u m s
in Poland

Please mail Jacek Gancarson if you know of relevant on-line information not included here.

This page includes a collection of on-line museums and other World Wide Web services connected with museums in Poland.

Wersja polska               Deutsche Version.

Museums in Poland on the Internet

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Languages : Cz = Czech, E = English, Es = Spanish, F = French, D = German, I = Italian, Ma = Hungarian, PL = Polish, Ru = Russian, SLo = Slovakian

The museums (in alphabetical order of location):

Białowieża * Białowieża National Park. Museum of nature and forest (E, F, PL)
Bielsko-Biała Museum in Bielsko-Biała The Castle, Museum of Technology and Textile Industry, The Weaver House Museum and Julian Fałat Museum (E, D, F, PL)
Biskupin near Bydgoszcz * Biskupin, The best known archaeological reservation in Central Europe (E, PL)
Bydgoszcz Museum in Bydgoszcz, Regional museum (E, PL)
Częstochowa * Museum of Holy Virgin Mary of Częstochowa The Sanctuary, The Treasury, Museum of 600-Aniversary and the Arsenal (E, D, F, I, Es, Ma, Cz, SLo, PL)
Frombork !Nicolaus Copernicus Museum in Frombork. Museum dedicated to life and works of Nicolai Copernicus (D, E, F, Ru, PL)
Gdańsk National Museum in Gdańsk, Art from XV to XX Century (E, D, PL)
Polish Marime Museum, Underwater archeological artefacts (E)

Gdynia Oceanographic Museum and Marine Aquarium, Ca 600 animals of ca 60 species in 34 aquariums (E, PL)
Giecz Museum in Giecz, The stronghold of first Piasts (E, PL)
Gliwice Museum in Gliwice (E, D, PL)
Kalisz Regional Museum of Kalisia District (E, D, PL)
Kampinos near Warsaw Kampinos Natioanl Park (E, PL)
Kartuzy koło Gdyni Kaszuby\Museum(E, D, PL)
Katowice Śląsk Museum (E, D, PL)
Katowice History Museum (D, PL)
Kęty koło Olsztyna Aleksander Kłosiński Museum in Kęty (E, PL)
Konstancin-Jeziorna near Warsaw Paper Industry Museum (E, PL)
Kozłówka near Lublin *Zamoyski Museum. The only residence style museum in the region   (D, E, PL)
Kraków * Wawel Royal Castle, Primary site of Polish kings (E, F, D,PL)
!Cracow History Museum (E, PL)
!The Jagellonian University Museum (E, PL)
National Museum in Cracow (PL)
!Museum of Photography (E, PL)
Polish Home Army Museum (E, PL)
Polish Aviation Museum, More than 100 planes, gliders, helicopters and anti-aircraft missiles (E, PL)
Krasiczyn near Przemyśl Castle and Park Ensamble in Krasiczyn (E, D, Ru, PL))
Krokowa near Gdynia Regional Museum – Castle Krokowa (D, PL)
Krosno The Sub-Carpathian Museum in Krosno (E, PL)
Leszno near Poznań Regional Museum in Leszno (E, D, PL)
Lublin Lublin Museum, Polish painting, decorative art, etnography, military arms, numizamatics, archeology (E, PL)

Open Air Village Museum, (E, PL)

State Museum in Majdanek, German Nazi Concentration Camp from WW II (D, E, PL)

Łańcut ! The Łańcut Castle Museum, Former residence of Potockis, Eastern Church Art Collection and Carriage Museum (E, D, F, PL)
The Distillery Museum, (E, PL)
Łódź Central Museum of Textiles. The bigest Textile Museum in Poland, hosting the International Triennial of Tapestry in Łódz, the world's bigest exhibition promoting contemporary Tapestry (E, PL)
Malbork *Malbork Castle, The Teutonic Order Castle from XIV Century (D, E, PL)
Nowy Sącz *Regional Museum in Nowy Sącz (E, PL)
Olsztyn Museum of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn  (E, PL)
Opiniogóra near Ciechanów Romantism Museum in Opinogóra  (E, PL)
Oświęcim * Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, World War II extermination camp and Holocaust victims memorial (D, E, PL)
Pińczów near Krakow Regional Museum, Prehistory of the region, Synagogue (E, PL)
Płock Diocesan Museum in Płock (E, D, PL)
Poznań National Museum, Collections of paintings, sculpture and applied art (E, PL)

Poznan Archaeological Museum, Prehistoric and Medieval archeology of Wielkopolska. Egipt and Sudan Collections (E, PL)

Pszczyna near Katowice * The Castle Museum in Pszczyna, The historical castle of the region (E, D, PL)
Rogoźnica near Wałbrzych The Gross-Rosen Museum in Rogoźnica, (E, F, D, PL)
Sierpc near Płock * Museum of the Mazovian Countryside, Historic monuments of folk culture (E, D, PL)
Słupsk Museum of Central Pomerania, Museum of the region with large collection of graphics of S.Witkiewicz (E, I, PL)
Szczecin The Castle of Pomerania Dukes (D, E, F, PL)
Sztutowo (Stutthof) National Stutthof Museum, WW II Concentration Camp Museum (D, E, PL)
Tarnów Diocesan Museum, The oldest diocesan museum in Poland (D, E, PL)
Toruń Regional Museum in Toruń (E, PL)
Warszawa

The Historical Museum of Warsaw, Results of archeological and architectural investigations after WW II (E, PL)
!*Warsaw Uprising Museum, Recently founded museum of Warsaw Uprising 1944 (E, PL, D, F, Ru)
* Wilanów Museum Palace, Royal residence from XVII Century (E, PL)
* Łazienki Palace Museum, Royal residence and park (PL)
Museum of the History of Polish Jews, (E, PL)
*National Museum in Warsaw, 11 own collections of Polish and world art, scheduled guest exhibitions (E, PL)
John Paul II collection of paintings. (E, PL)
The Independence Museum (E, PL)
*Royal Castle in Warsaw, Fully reconstructed royal residence (E, PL)
Zachęta Gallery, Polish painters, starting from 1960-ties (E, PL)
Museum of Carton Arts and Caricature (E, PL)
Museum of Hunting. (E, D, PL)
Centre for Contemporary Art, Contemporary art exhibitions and events, Internet linkage to Art Galleries in Poland (E, PL)
Museum of Asia and Pacific, (E, PL)

Wieliczka 

near Krakow

* Cracow Salt-Works Museum, Saltmine Wieliczka, The 700-year-old salt mine (E, PL)
Wrocław

Museums in Wrocław (E, D, F, PL)
National Museum in Wrocław, Over 100,000 items, mostly of regional orgin from all ages (PL)
The National Ossolinski Institute, Manuscripts, old prints, graphics, numismatics, maps (E, PL)
Zamość The Zamość Museum (E, PL)
Zakopane The Tatry Museum, Zakopane. Museum of Podhale Region, (E, PL)
Zielona Góra Lubuska Province Museum, Zielona Góra. Regional Viti culture and sacral sculpture from XV-XIX Century (D, E, PL)

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This service is brought to you by Jacek Gancarson with use of Polish museums list prepared by KOBIDZ, as part of the WWW Virtual Library museums pages maintained by Jonathan Bowen.