Nature & natural history museums in Poland

The Royal Łazienki Park, known in Polish as Park Łazienki Królewskie, is the largest public park in Warsaw, Poland. It covers an expansive area of about 80 hectares, providing ample space for visitors to explore and enjoy. The park is a significant part of Warsaw's landscape, offering a blend of nature and architecture that is unique to the city.

The Wrocław Zoo is the largest and oldest zoo in Poland, situated in Wrocław. The zoo in Wrocław covers 33 hectares and is home to around 10,500 animals that represent around 1,150 species, including large animals like elephants to small insects. The zoo also houses the Wrocław Africarium (Afrykariu

The Oliwa Zoo Gdańsk s a zoological garden in Gdańsk situated in the forests of Oliwa. The zoo covers 123,76 hectares, which makes it the largest zoo in Poland in terms of space. The Zoo in Gdańsk is known for its collection of Andean condors (birds) and its breeding program of this species.

The Krakow Zoo (Zoological Garden Krakow, Krakowski Ogród Zoologiczny) is a zoo in the Wolski Forest in the city of Krakow. The zoo was opened in 1929. With an area of about 20 hectares, it is one of the largest zoos in Poland. The Krakow Zoo is home to around 1,500 animals relating to more than 26

The Warsaw Zoo (Ogród Zoologiczny Warszawski) is the zoo of the Polish capital Warsaw, which was founded in 1928. The zoo is home to around 3000 animals, relating to around 500 species. The zoo is intersected from north to south by a wide walking path. On the side of the Weichsel the Warsaw Zoo has

The Hydropolis is a water multimedia museum in Wrocław, also called the Centre for Ecological Education. The Hydropolis exhibition is housed in a historic, underground pure water tank from the 19th century that covers 4,000 square meter. It is a place where diverse multimedia technologies, interacti

In 1974, when the Old Zoo in Poznań at.Zwierzyniecka Street had its hundred year anniversary, this New Zoo was opened in Poznań. The zoo is spread out across 116 hectares and is home to over 2,000 animals representing around 140 different species. Many of these animals live in recreations of their n

The Herbst Palace Museum is housed in a historic house in Łódź. The museum holds collections of old, antique paintings, sculptures, graphics, and products of artistic craft and aims to increase visitor's understanding of arts, culture and social history of the 19th and 20th century. The Herbst Palac

The Łódź Zoo is a zoological garden in Łódź that was established in 1938. The zoo is home to over 2,200 animals that represent more than 650 species and is the only zoo in Poland that is home to the endangered Asiatic lions.

The Museum of Archeology in Gdańsk is housed in the Naturalists House, one of the largest and the most representative tenement houses in the city. The museum is mostly dedicated to the prehistory of Pomerania and features five major exhibitions themed: Prehistoric Times of Gdańsk Pomerania, With Amb

The Hipolit House is one of the branches of the Historical Museum of Krakow, located at the Mariacki Square in a two-story building. The museum houses a permanent exhibition called "A Bourgeois House" that shows how Cracovians lived from the 17th to the 19th century, with changing characteristics of

The Aquarium and Museum of Natural History in Krakow is the public aquarium and a museum in Krakow that aims to conduct scientific research (including taxonomic, phylogenetic, genetic, paleontological, biogeographic) on the evolution and biodiversity of the animal world, collect, store and share zoo

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