The most interesting museums in Warsaw

Opened on the 60th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising, the Warsaw Rising Museum is housed in a former tram depot complex, a monument of the 20th century industrial architecture itself. Its uniquely designed exhibition affects your senses with images, light and sound. The interior design and use of multimedia effects will let you feel the insurgent reality. Visitors are put in a in a setting that shows scenes from several decades ago, walking on granite cobblestones through the ruins of the destroyed capital.

The Museum also has a special exhibition for children - the Room of the Little Insurgent. The light and colourful room is where children learn history by watching an insurgent puppet theatre and impersonating scout postmen and paramedics. Young visitors can also play with replicas of old-time toys, board games and jigsaw puzzles.

The POLIN Museum is a modern historical museum that shows 1,000 years of the history of Polish Jews. It is also a meeting place for those who wish to learn more about Jewish culture.

The Museum of Warsaw collects and exhibits Warsaw-related artefacts, and tells about events and people that decided about the shape and character of today's Warsaw. The Museum has 9 locations, each of which has its own programme. In addition to permanent exhibitions, visitors are offered workshops, meetings, lectures, sightseeing tours, family activities, concerts and many other projects. The main exhibition shows Warsaw artefacts and data, and the history of the city's historic townhouses.

Museum of Life Under Communism is a place where young visitors get the opportunity to discover the reality in which their parents lived, while the older generation can recall the ups and downs of life in the Polish People’s Republic. The Museum presents selected facts and stories, but above all the reality of life at that time. 

Our last proposal is to visit the Copernicus Science Centre - a paradise not only for children but for all science enthusiasts. Here you can feel like a researcher or explorer, carrying out your own experiments, testing your body’s capabilities, your sensitivity to sound and light and your susceptibility to illusions. In the Thinkatorium, you can build a flying vehicle or a bridge with the materials available. To round off your day at the Copernicus Science Centre, visit the Planetarium and relax on the grass in the Discovery Park.

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