Free museums in Poland

The Amber Museum in Gdańsk is the first museum in Poland solely devoted to amber. The museum holds a collection of exhibits related to amber that show amber in its natural state, methods of extraction, history of the trade routes, uses of amber in medicine, uses as a magical stone and as an artistic

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 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 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 Museum of Polish Diplomacy and Refugee in Bydgoszcz holds a collection concerning the Polish foreign service, the history of the Polish Government in Exile, as well as materials that depict the life and activities of Polish people living in various parts of the world.

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 Łambinowice seat of the Central Museum of Prisoners-of-War is located within the oldest part of the Lamsdorf military range, referred to as Camp I (Lager I) in the past. Even prior to that it was known as the camp of foot artillery (Fusslager). Until the end of World War 2, there were Prussian a

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