Ethnology museums in Poland

The POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews is a museum in Warsaw that is dedicated to the history of Judaism in Poland. The museum is located on the site of the former Warsaw ghetto, opposite the memorial commemorating the 1943 uprising in the ghetto. The exhibition covers consists of eight gall

The Galicia Jewish Museum (Żydowskie Muzeum Galicja) is a museum with a photo exhibition in Krakow that documents the remnants of Jewish culture and life in Polish Galicia. The main exhibition of the Galicia Jewish Museum commemorates the 800-year Jewish history through photographs of synagogues, ce

The Open Air Village Museum in Lublin is one of the biggest open air museums in Poland. The museum is dedicated to illustrating the cultural diversity of the province and holds a collection of items related to the former life in the village, in the manor and in the small town. Furthermore, the museu

The Ethnographic Museum of Kraków (Seweryn Udziela Ethnographic Museum in Krakow) is a museum in Kraków that was established in 1902. Currently, the museum has a collection of 8,000 items related to Polish and European history.

The Museum of Musical instruments is the only Polish museum of professional and folk instruments. The museum holds over 2,000 pieces related to music, history and ethnography. The museum features three floors of exhibits, with a room of music boxes and gramophones, a room of pianos and organs, horns

Szczecin's National Museum is housed in one of the most renown and distinctive buildings of Szczecin, designed by by Wilhelm Meyer-Schwartau. One of Poland's greatest collections of relics of non-European cultures are on display in this museum.

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 Jewish Historical Institute (Żydowski Instytut Historyczny, ŻIH) in Warsaw houses one of the most significant collections on Jewish history in Poland, including the Ringelblum Archive (the Warsaw Ghetto, also called Oneg Shabbat) that contains about 6000 documents, and is an important research f

The National Museum of Ethnography (Państwowe Muzeum Etnograficzne w Warszawie) is a museum in Warsaw. The museum holds an extensive collection with various objects as well as folk art, costumes, crafts, sculptures, paintings and other art from Poland, Europe, Africa, Australia, Oceania and Latin an

The Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography (Muzeum Archeologiczne i Etnograficzne) is a history museum in Łódź. The museum holds a collection of over 260,000 objects, divided over the four main collections: archaeological, ethnographic, numismatic and the puppet theatre. The collection includes sword

The Ethnographic Museum in Wrocław is part of the the National Museum in Wrocław and is housed in the 18th-century Neo-Baroque summer palace of Wrocław's bishops. The museum aims to illustrate the culture of former Eastern frontiers of Poland, the culture of the Lemko people and Byzantine Catholic c

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.

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

The Abbey Granary of the Department of Ethnography is situated inside Oliwa Park. It is an 18th century Abbatial Granary with three floors. The museum is devoted to the history and culture of the Pomerania region and showcases folk-related artefacts from Eastern Pomerania. The collection includes a

The Ethnographic Museum in Poznań is part of the National Museum of Poznań. The museum is housed in the historic building of an old freemason lodge, surrounded by a historic baroque-style park. The museum is one of Poland's oldest museums dedicated to illustrating the richness of folk culture. The m