Always-free museums - Warsaw
A few Warsaw museums are free every day of the week - no need to time your visit to a specific day. These are typically publicly funded institutions whose mission treats open access as part of the education remit.
Katyn Museum
Katyn Museum in Warsaw - the only museum in the world dedicated entirely to the Katyn massacre. Free admission, opening hours, how to get there, practical tips.
State Archaeological Museum in Warsaw
State Archaeological Museum in Warsaw - prehistory of Polish lands in the historic Royal Arsenal. Opening hours, tickets, exhibitions, directions.
Museum of Cursed Soldiers and Political Prisoners in Warsaw
Museum of Cursed Soldiers at Rakowiecka 37 - Warsaw's communist-era political prison. Free entry, guided tours only. Pavilion X cells, execution site.
Museum of Scouting in Warsaw
Poland's only scouting museum in a 1930s YMCA building. Gray Ranks WWII archives, scout banners, free admission. Hours, directions.
NBP Money Centre in Warsaw
NBP Money Centre in Warsaw - free interactive museum at the National Bank of Poland. 10,000 exhibits, 16 rooms, gold bar. Hours, directions.
Norblin Factory Museum in Warsaw
Norblin Factory Museum - unique open-type museum with 200 years of industrial history. Hydraulic accumulator twin to Tower Bridge. Full visit paid (app or guided tour).
Pontiseum - Bridge Construction Museum
Pontiseum in Warsaw - open-air display of steel fragments from 3 historic bridges pulled from the Vistula. Free entry, 24/7.
Theatre Museum in Warsaw
Theatre Museum at the Grand Theatre Warsaw - Poland's only theatre museum. 200,000 objects, free entry. Hours, directions.
Warsaw Ghetto Museum
Warsaw Ghetto Museum - under construction, opening autumn 2027. Sienna 60, former Bersohn and Bauman Children's Hospital. Info, walking tours, access.
Academy of Fine Arts Museum
27,000 artworks in Czapski Palace - Chopin's last Warsaw home, Norwid studied here. Tue-Sun 12-19, free admission.
Bolesław Biegas Museum
Over 200 surrealist sculptures and paintings in Art Nouveau Hoser House - Spherism, War Vampires. Tue-Fri, free.
Children's Art Museum
5,000 artworks created by children since 1965 - paintings, sculptures, tapestries, ceramics. Zoliborz workshops, by appointment.
Children's Book Museum
Nearly 100,000 volumes of children's literature from 1801 onwards. Special department of the Warsaw Public Library. Exhibitions, author meetings. Free entry.
Diving Museum
Warsaw Diving Museum - Poland's only diving museum with 900 artefacts from 1895 onward, helmets, suits and underwater gear. Free entry, Tuesdays 11-17.
Europa Experience Warsaw
Free multimedia exhibition by the European Parliament. 360-degree cinema, interactive stations in 24 languages, MEP role-play game. Central Warsaw.
Feliks Stamm Boxing Museum
Poland's first boxing museum in Hala Gwardii - Pietrzykowski's gloves from the Clay fight, Olympic medals. Closed since 2023, reopening after renovation expected 2028-2029.
Gen. Henryk Minkiewicz Tradition Room
Military tradition room at the Warsaw Garrison Command on Pilsudski Square. Weapons from the 1794 insurrection, uhlan cavalry gear, VIP guest books signed by heads of state.
General Wladyslaw Sikorski Museum
Small exhibition dedicated to General Sikorski on Turecka Street in Mokotow - memorabilia, documents and uniforms of the WWII Polish PM-in-exile.
Heritage Interpretation Centre
Museum of Warsaw branch on the Vistula escarpment. Teaches how to read a city's architecture - lectures, workshops, exhibitions on heritage. Free entry.
Historical Metrological Collections of the Central Office of Measures
3,500 historic measuring instruments at GUM - from a 1677 Lithuanian weight to atomic clocks. Group visits by appointment or Night of Museums.
Icon Museum
500 Russian, Greek and Balkan icons in a converted boiler room - Orthodox chapel, Nowosielski reproductions. Tue-Sat, free.
Jan Kilinski Leather Craft Guild Museum
Leather Guild Museum in Warsaw Old Town - 19th-century shoemaker workshop, Kilinski memorabilia, leather craft heritage since 1386. Free entry.
Jazz Museum
Jazz instruments, photos and posters at the YMCA where Tyrmand held Poland's first post-war jam session. By appointment.
Korczakianum Documentation and Research Centre
Korczakianum in the historic Orphans' Home where Korczak lived - archive, permanent exhibition, digital repository. Branch of Museum of Warsaw.
Legia Warsaw Museum
Poland's first club sports museum - under the Zyleta stand at the Polish Army Stadium. Deyna memorabilia, Wronski's Olympic gold, a 1930s motorcycle. Closed for renovation, …
LOT Polish Airlines Museum
LOT Polish Airlines History Hall at the airline's HQ near Chopin Airport - memorabilia from 95 years of Polish commercial aviation. Visits by arrangement.
Maria Dabrowska Museum
Maria Dabrowska's Mokotow apartment - the Nights and Days author lived here from 1944 to 1965. Branch of the Museum of Literature.
Maria Kownacka Memorial Room
Maria Kownacka's apartment in a Zoliborz cooperative block - beloved children's author lived here 1930-1982. Warsaw Public Library branch.
Medical History Museum of Warsaw Medical University
WUM Medical History Museum in Warsaw - surgical instruments, 17th-century medical books, 3D-mapped Anatomical Theatre. Free entry, weekdays.
Memorial Chamber at the Warsaw Uprising Cemetery
Branch of the Museum of Warsaw at the largest Warsaw Uprising Cemetery. Exhibition commemorating civilian victims of the 1944 Uprising. Night of Museums 2026.
Museum of Cooperative History in Poland
Museum of Cooperative History in Warsaw - 25,000 artefacts in the historic House Under the Eagles. From Stefczyk to Spolem. Free entry.
Museum of Geodesy
Museum of Geodesy at WPG in Warsaw - theodolites, levelling instruments and surveying tools from the 19th-20th century. Poland's first geodesy museum.
Museum of the Congregation of Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy
Small museum in the convent basement on Zytnia Street - where St. Faustina Kowalska knocked on the gate in 1925. Relics, habit, multimedia.
Museum of the Polish Bar Association
Museum of the Polish Bar in Warsaw - advocacy history from the 18th century, legal robes, landmark trial documents. Free, by appointment.
Nursing History Museum
Nursing History Museum in Warsaw - gallery of 103 Florence Nightingale Medal recipients, medical instruments. Visits by appointment.
Old Medical Books Department of the Main Medical Library
65,000 exhibits in a surviving 1890s surgical pavilion of Ujazdowski Hospital - Copernicus originals, Curie's desk, 17th-century anatomical atlases.
Private Museum of the Polish Devil "Przedpiekle"
Former private museum of ~2,000 Polish devil figurines in a Mokotow basement. Closed since 2023 after founder Wiktoryn Grabczewski's death.
S.J. Thugutt Geological Museum
University geological museum with Apollo mission lunar dust, 233 Pultusk meteorite specimens and 4,000 mineral displays. Free entry, by appointment only.
St. Zygmunt Felinski Museum
Museum of the Archbishop of Warsaw in Boguslawski Palace, Wola - saint canonized in 2009, friend of poet Slowacki, Siberian exile. Free entry.
Sue Ryder Museum
Sue Ryder Museum in the Mokotow Toll Gate at pl. Unii Lubelskiej - British philanthropist and her Polish mission. Temporarily closed.
University of Warsaw Museum
University of Warsaw Museum in the Tyszkiewicz-Potocki Palace on Royal Route. 1917 silver eagle, cork model of Arch of Constantine, Sienkiewicz portrait. Free entry.
Ursus Tractor Factory Museum
Ursus Tractor Factory Museum history - 400 exhibits, vintage tractors and a 1936 Sokół motorcycle. Hall 270 demolished 2022. Collection at NMT and Izba.
Ursynów Museum
Ursynow Museum at Barwna 8 - Niemcewicz's 19th-century study and a communist-era apartment straight from Alternatywy 4. Free entry.
Warsaw Bread Museum
Private bakery museum behind a working bakery in Szmulowizna - challah molds, an 1867 salt receipt, WWII ration cards. Free entry, visits by appointment.
Warsaw Fire Brigade Education and History Centre
Warsaw Fire Brigade Centre in Praga Polnoc - 1000 m² of exhibits, vintage fire engines, an 1878 tower and a spherical cinema. Group visits by reservation.
Warsaw Musical Society Library, Museum and Archive
Chopin and Moniuszko manuscripts in Poland's oldest musical society archive. 47,500 objects on Zakroczymska. Visits by appointment.
Warsaw Orthodox Metropolis Museum
Orthodox sacred art in the Centre of Orthodox Culture in Praga - icons, crosses from the 5th-6th century, liturgical vestments. Free entry.
Warsaw Tram Heritage Room
Warsaw Tram Heritage Room at the Mokotów depot - vintage tram models, uniforms, ticket punches and the history of Warsaw's rail transport. Free admission.
Warsaw University of Life Sciences Museum
SGGW Museum in Warsaw - 200 years of Poland's oldest agricultural university, from Marymont to Ursynow. VR exhibits. Free entry.
Warsaw University of Technology Museum
Warsaw University of Technology Museum - 200 years of engineering heritage, vintage instruments, ANOPS-105 computer. Free entry.
Warsaw Uprising Veterans Association
Yearning for Freedom exhibition at the Warsaw Uprising Veterans Association, Długa 22. Video testimonies, veteran memorabilia. Free entry.
Wladyslaw Broniewski Museum
Poet Broniewski's Mokotow apartment - he lived and wrote here from 1945 until his death in 1962. Branch of the Museum of Literature.
See also
- Thursday museums - the widest choice of the week.
- All days hub.
Last updated: April 2026.