Warsaw — Museums, churches and theatres

Places documented in Warsaw

• Antonina Leśniewska Museum of Pharmacy — A 1985 museum in Warsaw dedicated to pharmaceutical history, displaying over 2,500 antiquities including 1930s laboratory equipment and exhi
• Asia and Pacific Museum — Warsaw's Asia and Pacific Museum preserves over 20,000 objects from across Asia, Australia, and Oceania, founded in 1973 from sailor-diploma
• Ateneum Theatre — A Polish dramatic theatre founded in 1928, the Ateneum Theatre reopened after WWII restoration and was named after its visionary first direc
• Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego — The Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego headquarters at Aleje Jerozolimskie 7 is one of Warsaw's finest examples of interwar Modernistic architectur
• Basket weaving — In Warsaw, Poland, basket weavers transform willow, straw, and other pliable fibres into functional and decorative objects, continuing…
• Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Warsaw — A modernist parish church in Warsaw's Ochota district, designed by Oskar Sosnowski and largely reconstructed after devastating World War II
• Copernicus Science Centre — The Copernicus Science Centre (Centrum Nauki Kopernik) is the largest interactive science museum in Poland and one of the most advanced of i
• Fryderyk Chopin Museum — The Fryderyk Chopin Museum in Warsaw's Ostrogski Castle houses the world's largest collection of the Polish composer's works, with over 7,50
• Hala Koszyki — Art Nouveau steel market hall of 1909 in central Warsaw, restored in 2016 as a public food hall.
• Hotel Bristol — Warsaw — A survivor among ruins. Hotel Bristol has anchored Warsaw's Royal Route since 1901, outlasting the near-total destruction of a city that had
• Hotel Europejski — A pioneering luxury hotel designed by Enrico Marconi in 1857, badly damaged in World War II, and reconstructed before reopening under Raffle
• Hotel Polonia Palace — A four-star hotel opened in 1913 on Warsaw's Jerusalem Avenue, now Poland's second-oldest hotel and a protected architectural monument.
• Keret House — Keret House is an art installation and habitable structure in Warsaw, Poland, designed by architect Jakub Szczęsny of the firm Centrala and
• King John III Museum in Wilanów — One of Poland's oldest museums, the King John III Museum in Wilanów preserves royal collections and artistic heritage accumulated by Polish
• MNW – The National Museum in Warsaw — Poland's largest museum, founded in 1862, housing ancient art, Old Master paintings, and Polish works in a modernist 1938 building.
• Museum of Caricature, Warsaw — Founded in 1978, Warsaw's Museum of Caricature holds over 20,000 works by Polish and international artists in a historic 18th-century orange
• Museum of Diving, Warsaw — A specialized museum in Warsaw dedicated to diving history and equipment, founded in 2006 by the Warsaw Diving Club.
• Museum of Independence — A national museum in Warsaw's Przebendowski Palace documenting Polish independence movements from the Kościuszko Uprising to the present, wi
• Museum of John Paul II Collection — A gallery of European painting copies housed in Warsaw's former stock exchange and Bank of Poland building, dedicated to John Paul II's lega
• Museum of Modern Art w Warszawie – The Vistula Museum — A striking contemporary pavilion by Austrian architect Adolf Krischanitz, opened in 2017 to house experimental exhibitions for Warsaw's Muse
• Museum of Praga — A 2006 museum in Warsaw's Praga quarter, housed in 18th-century Krzyżanowski's House, preserving neighbourhood heritage through photographs,
• Museum of the Earth of the Polish Academy of Sciences — A geology and paleontology museum in central Warsaw, housed in two historic buildings on the Vistula escarpment since 1948 and operated by t
• Museum of Warsaw — A museum dedicated to Warsaw's history, occupying eleven townhouses in the Old Town Market Square.
• Neon Museum — The Neon Museum in Warsaw is a dedicated collection of Cold War-era neon signs rescued from the streets of communist Poland. Housed in the S
• Och-Teatr — Och-Teatr is a privately owned performing arts theater in Warsaw, founded in 2010 by Krystyna Janda's Foundation for Culture, featuring two
• Old Town, Warsaw — Warsaw's oldest quarter, nearly destroyed in World War II, was painstakingly reconstructed as the world's first fully restored historic city
• Palace of Culture and Science — The Palace of Culture and Science is Warsaw's most recognisable landmark — a monumental Stalinist skyscraper rising 237 metres above the Pol
• Palace on the Isle — A classicist summer palace in Warsaw's largest park, transformed from a 1670s Baroque bath-house into a royal residence by King Stanisław Au
• POLIN Muzeum Historii Żydów Polskich — POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews is a landmark cultural institution in Warsaw dedicated to preserving and presenting a thousand ye
• Poster Museum (Warsaw) — The world's oldest poster museum, founded in 1968 and housed at Warsaw's Wilanów Palace, celebrating graphic design as fine art and cultural
• Presidential Palace Warsaw — The Presidential Palace in Warsaw is the official seat of the President of Poland, a grand neoclassical building on Krakowskie Przedmieście
• Prudential House (Hotel Warszawa) — Prudential House — officially reborn as Hotel Warszawa — is a landmark Art Deco skyscraper standing at Warsaw Insurgents Square, Poland. Com
• Royal Spring, Warsaw — An 18th-century water well in Warsaw's New Town, built from 1770 under King Stanislaus Augustus, it served as a vital public resource for re
• St. Augustine's Church, Warsaw — A neo-Romanesque Roman Catholic church on Nowolipki Street in Warsaw's Wola district, built during the city's 19th-century expansion.
• St. Catherine's Church, Warsaw — Warsaw's oldest surviving parish church, founded about fifty years before the Old Town, stands in Ursynów as a landmark of the city's earlie
• St. Florian's Cathedral — A Roman Catholic minor basilica in Warsaw's Praga-Połnoc district, dedicated to St. Florian and St. Michael the Archangel, standing at the h
• St. John's Archcathedral, Warsaw — Warsaw's mother church and Poland's most prestigious Catholic temple, this Brick Gothic archcathedral stands in the UNESCO-listed Old Town…
• Station Museum — A railway museum at Warsaw's historic main terminus, preserving Poland's transport heritage with vintage locomotives, rare armoured trains…
• Taubenhaus Tenement — A Gothic Revival tenement house built in 1898 on Warsaw's Marshal Street, designed by Edward Goldberg and exemplifying late 19th-century Pol
• Teatr Wielki — Grand Theatre & National Opera, Warsaw — Antonio Corazzi’s 1833 Neoclassical giant on Theatre Square is one of the largest opera houses in the world by stage area — burned in 1939,
• The Royal Castle in Warsaw — The Royal Castle in Warsaw is a historic state museum and national monument occupying the former official residence of Polish monarchs at th
• Warsaw — Museums, churches and theatres — Warsaw holds 35 places documented in this archive, among them Antonina Leśniewska Museum of Pharmacy, Asia and Pacific Museum and Ateneum Th
• Warsaw Fotoplastikon — The Warsaw Fotoplastikon is a stereoscopic theatre based on the 19th-century Kaiserpanorama system, operating continuously at 51 Jerusalem A
• Warsaw Gasworks Museum — A museum in Warsaw's Wola district preserving the industrial heritage of a late 19th-century gas factory through machinery, lamps, and archi
• Warsaw Icon Museum — Poland's first icon museum in Warsaw occupies a converted boilerhouse in the Ochota district, displaying Eastern Orthodox sacred art as the
• Warsaw Uprising Museum — The Warsaw Uprising Museum is a major history museum in the Wola district of Warsaw dedicated to the Warsaw Uprising of 1944 — the largest a
• Warsaw Vodka Factory "Koneser" — A complex of neo-Gothic industrial buildings from the late 19th century in Warsaw's Praga borough, where vodka production shaped the neighbo
• Wilanow Palace — Wilanów Palace is a Baroque royal residence in the Wilanów district of Warsaw, built between 1677 and 1696 for King John III Sobieski of Pol
• Zachęta – National Gallery of Art — Warsaw's premier contemporary art museum and champion of Polish artists, Zachęta takes its name from a 19th-century society devoted to artis