Free museums on Thursday - Warsaw
Thursday is the richest day for free museum visits in Warsaw - the city’s biggest museums are open at no charge. POLIN, Wilanow Palace, the Warsaw Uprising Museum, the Museum of Warsaw, and the Polish Army Museum - all free, all in one day.
Museum of Warsaw
Museum of Warsaw on the Old Town Market Square - 7,000 objects in 11 historic townhouses. Opening hours, tickets, how to get there, practical tips.
Regular: 25 PLN | Reduced: 18 PLN
POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews
POLIN Museum in Warsaw - 1,000 years of Polish Jewish history at one of Europe's best museums. Opening hours, tickets, how to get there, practical tips.
Regular: 45 PLN | Reduced: 35 PLN
The Polish Army Museum in Warsaw
The Polish Army Museum at the Warsaw Citadel - 1,000 years of Polish military history, hussar armour, tanks, MiGs. Opening hours, tickets, free Thursdays, how to get there.
Regular: 40 PLN | Reduced: 30 PLN
Warsaw Uprising Museum
Warsaw Uprising Museum - one of the most visited museums in Poland. Opening hours, tickets, free Thursdays, getting there.
Regular: 35 PLN | Reduced: 30 PLN
Wilanow Palace
Wilanow Palace in Warsaw - the Baroque royal residence of King Jan III Sobieski. Opening hours, tickets, directions and visitor tips.
Regular: 70 PLN | Reduced: 35 PLN
Zacheta - National Gallery of Art
Zacheta - National Gallery of Art in Warsaw. Neo-Renaissance palace from 1900, contemporary art, rotating exhibitions. Tickets, hours, directions.
Regular: 30 PLN | Reduced: 20 PLN
Andrzej Wawrzyniak Asia and Pacific Museum
Asia and Pacific Museum in Warsaw - Poland's only museum of Asian and Oceanian cultures. 23,000 objects, playable instruments. Hours, tickets.
Regular: 20 PLN | Reduced: 12 PLN
Antonina Le艣niewska Museum of Pharmacy
Pharmacy Museum in Warsaw Old Town - historic apothecary, antique equipment, and the story of Poland's first female pharmacist. Hours, tickets, directions.
Regular: 12 PLN | Reduced: 8 PLN
Geological Museum (PIG) in Warsaw
Geological Museum PIG in Warsaw - meteorites, minerals, prehistoric skeletons and a flashlight cave. Tickets, hours, how to get there.
Regular: 10 PLN | Reduced: 5 PLN
Mausoleum of Struggle and Martyrdom in Warsaw
Former Gestapo HQ on Szucha Avenue. Original cells, prisoner inscriptions, multimedia. Hours, tickets, how to visit.
Regular: 20 PLN | Reduced: 10 PLN
Museum of Independence in Warsaw
Museum of Independence in Warsaw - Polish independence history in a Baroque palace. Opening hours, tickets, how to get there.
Regular: 20 PLN | Reduced: 10 PLN
Museum of John Paul II and Primate Wyszy艅ski (Mt 5,14)
Mt 5,14 Museum in Warsaw's Temple of Divine Providence - exhibition on John Paul II and Cardinal Wyszynski, 26m above ground. Tickets.
Regular: 35 PLN | Reduced: 28 PLN
Museum of Pawiak Prison in Warsaw
Pawiak Prison Museum in Warsaw - temporarily closed until autumn 2026. Exhibition info, tickets, reopening details, and nearby alternatives.
Regular: 20 PLN | Reduced: 10 PLN
Museum of Polish Military Technology in Warsaw
Museum of Polish Military Technology at Fort IX - tanks, MiGs, Katyusha launchers, Meduza bathyscaphe. Hours, tickets, free Thursdays, directions.
Regular: 20 PLN | Reduced: 12 PLN
Museum of Printing in Warsaw
Warsaw's Printing Museum on Zabkowska Street. Working 18th-century press, hands-on workshops, Praga district gem. Hours, tickets.
Regular: 5 PLN | Reduced: 3 PLN
Museum of the Tenth Pavilion of the Warsaw Citadel
Tenth Pavilion of the Warsaw Citadel - authentic 19th-century political prison. Pilsudski's cell, Sochaczewski paintings, Execution Gate.
Regular: 20 PLN | Reduced: 10 PLN
Praga Museum of Warsaw
Praga Museum of Warsaw - pre-war Warsaw on the right bank. Jewish prayer room murals, oral histories, observation deck. Hours, tickets.
Regular: 15 PLN | Reduced: 10 PLN
State Ethnographic Museum in Warsaw
State Ethnographic Museum in Warsaw - Poland's oldest. 80,000 objects, folk costumes, African art. Tickets, hours, free Thursdays.
Regular: 19 PLN | Reduced: 10 PLN
Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art
CSW Ujazdowski Castle - major contemporary art centre in a reconstructed Baroque castle on the Ujazdowski escarpment. Exhibitions, cinema, sculpture park. Night of Museums 2026.
Regular: 30 PLN | Reduced: 20 PLN
Warsaw Fotoplastikon
Warsaw Fotoplastikon - the last working Kaiserpanorama in Europe. Stereoscopic photos, hours, tickets, directions.
Regular: 10 PLN | Reduced: 6 PLN
Military Ordinariate Museum
Poland's only military chaplaincy museum - in the crypt of the Field Cathedral on Dluga Street. Multimedia exhibition spanning from 966 AD to today. 6 PLN.
Regular: 6 PLN | Reduced: 4 PLN
Museum of the Polish Peasant Movement
Museum of the Polish Peasant Movement in Warsaw - 62,000 artefacts, Witos letters, folk art, partisan equipment. In a historic 1852 neo-Renaissance inn.
Regular: 4 PLN | Reduced: 2 PLN
Warsaw Barbican
Renaissance fortification from 1540 between Old and New Town. Summer exhibition on city walls, artists' market. Seasonal May-September.
Regular: 12 PLN | Reduced: 8 PLN
Practical tips for Thursday
- Start at the Warsaw Uprising Museum (opens at 8:00). On Thursdays it stays open until 20:00 - crowded in the morning, quieter in the evening.
- POLIN and the Museum of Warsaw - 15 minutes by tram from the Warsaw Uprising Museum. Both permanent exhibitions are free on Thursday.
- Wilanow needs more time - palace plus gardens plus travel. Best treated as its own half-day plan.
- Free tickets are limited (notably at POLIN and Wilanow). Check the museum’s website or reserve online.
- Audio guides and temporary exhibitions are usually paid separately even on Thursdays.
See also
- Wednesday museums - the Royal Castle and Chopin.
- Always-free museums - useful add-ons to your Thursday plan.
- All days of the week hub.
Last updated: April 2026.