Visual arts Amber Museum
Located behind the Wyżyna Gate in Gdańsk lies the unique Barbican complex. The two Gothic buildings, which once served to defend the city, made up the headquarters of the...
Visual arts Archaeological Museum in Biskupin
The settlement of the people of the Lusatian culture discovered on a promontory on Biskupinskie Lake dates back about 2500 years. An archaeological preserve was founded here before...
Visual arts Archaeological Museum in Poznan
The museum is situated in a Renaissance palace, the city residence of Gorki family dating from the first half of the 16th century, with a preserved early Renaissance portal and a...
Visual arts Archaeological Museum in Wroclaw
The Archaeological Museum is housed in Wroclaw's Mikolajski Arsenal. Constructed from the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries in the Gothic and Renaissance styles, it is one of...
Visual arts Artus Court
The opening of the restored Artus Court was a highlight of the Gdansk Millennium festivities in 1997. Constructed in 1476-81 in the Gothic style, Artus Court is the only building...
Visual arts Auschwitz-Birkenau National Museum in Oświęcim
The museum, founded on the site of the former concentration camp Konzentrationslager Auschwitz-Birkenau, aims to preserve the memory of the victims of the Holocaust, and carry out...
Visual arts Castle and Museum in Baranow Sandomierski
The castle is one of the most valuable and at the same time one of the most impressive pieces of secular Renaissance architecture in Poland. It is famous most of all for its...
Visual arts Central Maritime Museum
Established in 1960, the Central Maritime Museum is nowadays housed in several historical buildings in the centre of Gdansk These include the Great Crane - the former port crane...
Visual arts Central Museum of Textiles
It is only natural that The Central Museum of Textiles should be located in Lodz, the town being Poland's centre of the textile industry. The Museum opened in 1960 in the so-called...
Visual arts Cracow Salt-Works Museum
One of Europe's largest mining museums, the Krakow Salt Mines Museum has two permanent exhibitions.
Visual arts Diocesan Museum in Pelpin
A cultural centre of East Pomerania, the Pelplin Diocesan Museum was founded by Bishop Stanislaw Wojciech Okoniewski in 1928. The collections, initially gathered at the bishop's...
Visual arts Diocesan Museum of Liturgical Art in Sandomierz
The museum is housed in a late Gothic building known as the "Dlugosz House", built during the years 1476-1478, reconstructed in the seventeenth century. The museum was founded...
Visual arts District Museum in Leszno
Although the Leszno District Museum opened in 1950, it was not until 1961 that it moved into a building of its own, the so-called Pastor's House. This eighteenth century edifice...
Visual arts District Museum in Nowy Sacz
The prewar museum that used to be housed in the Staroscianski castle in Nowy Sacz was completely destroyed in 1945, and had to be reorganised from scratch after the Second World...
Visual arts District Museum in Torun
The museum's holdings were based on two collections from different museums that had been founded in Torun in the second half of the nineteenth century: Städtlisches Museum, founded...
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Visual arts MOCAK - Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków
The Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków (MOCAK) initiated its activities on February 1, 2010 on the...
Visual arts World War II Museum
Founded on 26 November 2008, with its official opening planned for 2014, the museum's ultimate...
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Theatre Jerzy Zoń
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Film Political Dress – Guide to the Poles Series
A documentary about a form of personal protest against an oppressive regime and fashion as a way of...