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If you want to visit a free museum in Warsaw at the weekend, direct your steps to the Olympic Centre in Żoliborz. This is where the Museum of Sport and Tourism has its headquarters. The permanent exhibition with an area of around 1,000 m² presents the history of sport from ancient Greece to the present day. There are more than 40 sporting disciplines in total. A significant part of the collection consists of original...

The Museum of the Warsaw Gasworks is located in Wola in a comprehensively revitalised building from the 19th century. Until 1970, a gasworks operated here. The modern exhibition enables you to understand the process of producing gas from coal. It is worth knowing that gas once not only illuminated the streets, but also powered the first refrigerators and other appliances. You will see unique exhibits here, such as.

Museums for free in Warsaw are an extensive group of establishments, which includes the Museum of Polish History every Friday and on public holidays. The museum's impressive, modern building was erected on the grounds of the Warsaw Citadel. Its worthy neighbours include: The Museum of the Polish Army, the Katyn Museum and the 10th Pavilion Museum. The 6-storey MHP building...

The field branch of the Museum of the Polish Army in Warsaw is a must-see for lovers of militaria and the history of military technology. The Museum of Polish Military Technology, located in the historic Czerniaków IX fort on Powsińska Street, presents an impressive collection of military equipment. The main part of the open-air exhibition is heavy equipment. You will see here, among others, tanks, armoured guns,...

The Museum of the 10th Pavilion of the Warsaw Citadel is one of the branches of the Museum of Independence. It is another place where the history of Polish national liberation aspirations comes alive within the authentic walls of a former political prison from the partition era. Erected by order of Tsar Nicholas I after the suppression of the November Uprising, the Citadel, manned by a strong garrison and equipped with several hundred cannons, was intended to strengthen...

The Mausoleum of Struggle and Martyrdom in Warsaw takes visitors back to the dark times of the German occupation. Located in the ground floor of the former Gestapo building at 25 Szucha Avenue, the museum has preserved the cells, corridors and interrogation room almost intact. It was here that prisoners from Pawiak and other prisons in the Warsaw district were brought for interrogation, a...

The Pawiak Prison Museum in Warsaw is a moving and thought-provoking place. It was built on the surviving foundations and preserved fragments of the cellars of the former prison. Most of the original elements found during the deconstruction were used for this purpose. The reconstructed cells and corridors convey the atmosphere of the years of German occupation. The permanent exhibition includes, among others, the Hall...

Established in 1990 within the walls of the 18th-century Przebendowskich / Radziwiłł Palace, the museum presents a rich collection documenting the Polish struggle for sovereignty from the time of the Kościuszko Uprising to the present day. Permanent exhibitions show key moments in the nation's history. "Polonia Restituta" presents all stages of the struggle for independence in chronological terms and the activities of the main Polish camps....