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Archaeology Museum

Like all the best museums in Poland, Wrocław's Archaeological Museum is located inside a building that's a museum in itself. Read_on (1 Comment)

Archdiocese Museum

See Ostrow Tumski. Read_on (1 Comment)

Architecture Museum

A unique and thoroughly recommended permanent exhibition inside the gorgeous 16th-century former Bernadine monastery, the city's architecture museum is more of a record of all that was lost in the city during WWII than a true museum of architecture. Read_on (1 Comment)

Ethnographic Museum

The best part of the Ethnographic Museum is on the top floor. Life-size dolls are arranged in quaint scenes of life in Silesia before 1945. Read_on (1 Comment)

Medal Museum

Note that this museum is now closed permanently and its collection moved to the History Museum where part remains on display.A staggering 50,000 medals, lockets, orders and badges are kept in row after row of display cases. Read_on (No Comments)

Military Museum

The other half of the 15th-century arsenal that houses the Archaeology Museum is, appropriately, the Military Museum. Not surprisingly, the Medieval halls are filled with arms and weapons of all sorts, many of them dating to the 18th century. Read_on (No Comments)

National Museum

Wrocław's National Museum houses one of the largest collections of Polish art. Before the 18th century this means almost exclusively religious art: altarpieces, urns for relics, busts of saints and the like. Read_on (1 Comment)

Natural History Museum

Halls full of massive skeletons, stuffed animal corpses posed on fake landscapes, butterflies pinned to boards - all natural history museums are gloomy places and this is no exception. Read_on (1 Comment)

Post & Communications Museum

Housed inside the 1929, bullet-knarled former Central Post Office, this magnificent building was one of the first high-rises in Wrocław and is easily recognisable from the Old Town thanks to the crown of satellite dishes on its roof. Read_on (No Comments)

The Royal Palace, History Museum

Wrocław isn't particularly known for its museums, the majority of which are underfunded and outdated. However the opening of the main branch of the Wrocław City Museum inside the renovated Baroque Royal Palace changed all that. Read_on (No Comments)

Town Hall, Museum of City Art

Town Hall, Museum of City Art
The first thing you'll probably notice about the Town Hall (Ratusz) is that it seems to be patched together from bits and pieces of a dozen different buildings, and in many ways it was. Read_on (2 Comments)