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Gdansk | Sightseeing | Museums

Amber Museum
Located inside Gdańsk’s medieval Torture Tower this fine, multi-floor exhibition with additional multimedia displays features everything amber-related from large raw lumps of the stuff to some stunningly ornate artistic creations. Highlights include plants and insects trapp [...]


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Targ Węglowy 26
tel. 058 301 47 33

Open:
10:00-16:00
Sunday:
11:00-16:00
Monday:
Closed
Tuesday:
10:00-15:00 Last entrance 30 minutes before closing.
Archaeological Museum
A beautifully Eastern European, academic-feel museum, full of pot plants, delicious-smelling wooden fittings and the prerequisite collection of ladies guarding the exhibits, the city's Archaeological Museum is no better or worse than any other and is worth a leisurely stroll round if you've got the time. Amid the usual prehistoric warrior skeletons and old city models, of note here is the lovely Amber Room and a small collection of broken plates and other household items rescued from the city's devastated 1945 landscape.  [...]


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ul. Mariacka 25/26
tel. 058 322 21 00

Open:
08:00-16:00
Sunday:
10:00-16:00
Monday:
Closed
Wednesday :
09:00-17:00
Saturday:
10:00-16:00
Archaeology Education Centre - "Błękitny lew"
Short of building a time machine this is the closet you’ll ever get to seeing what local life was like hundreds of years back. Complete with background noises of peeling bells and animals braying, this museum presents a series of life-size dioramas designed to show what Gdańsk once must have been like. Among the recreations are a cobblers store, a bath house and an inn, and even the smells have been recreated and piped into the rooms. The mannequins aren’t exactly Madame Tussaud’s, but this is still loads of fun, and far removed from the standard museum experience in Poland.

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ul. Chmielna 53
tel. 058 320 31 88

Open:
09:00-17:00
Monday:
Closed
Contemporary Art Museum
Contemporary Art Museum
Inside the superb Pałac Opatów, of which the oldest parts date back to the 15th century but which owes its present look to a splendid Rococo overhaul in the mid-18th century, the Contemporary Art Museum houses works by more than 140 post-WWII Polish artists as well as puttin [...]


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ul. Cystersów 18 (Oliwa Park)
tel. 058 552 12 71
Open 11:00-18:00, Closed Mon. From November 09:00-16:00, Closed Mon.
Ethnographic Museum
Ethnographic Museum
Located inside the 18th-century Abbatial Granary inside Oliwa Park, this delightful little diversion features three floors showcasing all manner of folk-related artifacts from Eastern Pomerania and is considered to be one of the best collections of its kind in Poland. Exhibits include a w [...]


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ul. Cystersów 19 (Oliwa Park)
tel. 058 552 12 71
Open 10:00-17:00 Closed Mon. From October 09:00-16:00 Closed Mon.
History of Gdansk Museum
Housed on the upper floors of the Town Hall the museum is currently closed for renovation, and is not expected to open until at least the middle of 2009.
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ul. Długa 46/47
tel. 058 767 91 00
National Museum Old Art Department
National Museum Old Art Department
A former Franciscan monastery and fever hospital, the National Museum houses an astonishing array of Gothic fabrics, sculpture, gold, silver, paintings, ceramics and elaborately carved furniture in its cross-vaulted cloisters and chambers. The centrepiece of the museum is Hans Memling's triptych The Final Judgment (1467-1471). Returned to the city by the Russians in 1956, the artwork has in turn been stolen by Napoleonic troops, Russians and Nazis. The displays remain for the time being, infuriatingly, in Polish only. [...]


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ul. Toruńska 1
tel. 058 301 70 61

Open:
09:00-16:00
Sunday:
10:00-17:00
Monday:
Closed
Saturday:
10:00-17:00 Last entrance 45 minutes before closing.
Polish Post Office
Destroyed during WWII and reconstructed between 1949 and 1951, this still functioning post office also houses a small museum dedicated to the events of September 1, 1939 as well as an exhibition of local postal history from the 18th century to the outbreak of WWII. [...]


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ul. Obrońców Poczty Polskiej 1-2
tel. 058 301 76 11

Open:
10:00-16:00
Sunday:
Closed
Monday:
Closed
Tuesday:
10:00-15:00
Saturday:
Closed
Torture Museum
Included as part of the city's Amber Museum which is housed inside the same building, the Torture Museum offers both a recreation of the living conditions of the criminals who were once kept here to a history of the building including some rather gruesome images. Forced to wriggle through tiny [...]


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Targ Węglowy 26
tel. 058 301 47 33

Open:
10:00-16:00
Sunday:
11:00-16:00
Monday:
Closed
Tuesday:
10:00-15:00 Last entrance 30 minutes before closing.
Uphagen`s House
This impressive, rococo-style house was built in 1776 for a Gdańsk merchant family. Now part of the Gdańsk History Museum, it houses a rich collection of textiles and garments, displayed in rooms fitted out with mainly original furniture. English-language boards on the w [...]


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ul. Długa 12
tel. 058 301 23 71

Open:
10:00-16:00
Sunday:
11:00-16:00
Monday:
Closed
Tuesday:
10:00-14:30 Last entrance 30 minutes before closing.