Museums in Warsaw - Poland

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Museums in Warsaw - Poland World Travel https://www.youtube.com/user/World1Tube Warsaw - Poland Travel Guide, Tourism http://goo.gl/HmkEIN Muzeum Pawilon-X (Block 10 Museum) Housed in the Citadel, a solid 19th-century fortress northwest of the Old Town and overlooking the Vistula, this Warsaw museum was once used as a prison for political enemies of the Russian czars. The lucky inmates were shipped to labour camps in Siberia; the less fortunate were executed at Brama Straceń (Gate of Execution) on the prison grounds. The original cells are still standing and labelled with some of the prison's more famous residents, and paintings by Alexander Sochaczewski, a former inmate transported to Siberia with 20,000 other anti-Russian insurgents in the mid-19th century, adorn the walls. Opening Times: Wed-Sun 0900-1600. Admission Fees: Yes Disabled Access: Yes Unesco: No Address: Ulica Skazańców 25, Warsaw, Poland Muzeum Powstania Warszawskiego (Warsaw Rising Museum) The Warsaw Rising Museum is a must-see for those with any interest in history and tales of bravery and self-sacrifice. In order to get a taste of what life in Warsaw must have been like for Varsovians during WWII, this thoroughly comprehensive museum shows examples of how residents resisted the German forces through film footage, photographs, recorded interviews, life-size dioramas, soundscapes and informative plaques, written in both Polish and English. Cityscape pictures pinpointing the handful of buildings that survived WWII are located on the museum's elevated viewing platform; they are a grim reminder of the destruction wrought by the Nazis on Warsaw. Opening Times: Mon, Wed and Fri 0800-1800, Thurs 0800-2000, Sat-Sun 1000-1800. Admission Fees: Yes Disabled Access: Yes Unesco: No Address: Ulica Przyokopowej 28, Warsaw, Poland Muzeum Więzienia Pawiak (Pawiak Prison Museum) This eerie old prison symbolises the oppression that has dogged Warsaw over the last two centuries. Originally built in 1839 at the order of the czar, the prison counted among its inmates many victims of the Nazi reign of terror from 1939 to1944, when it served as the largest political prison in Poland. A third of the estimated 100,000 detainees never made it out alive. The Nazis tried to dynamite the evidence of their crimes as they fled but Pawiak and its exhibits stand as a testament to Warsaw's seemingly endless ability to suffer and survive. Opening Times: Wed and Fri 0900-1700, Thurs and Sat 0900-1600, Sun 1000-1600. Admission Fees: Yes Disabled Access: Yes Unesco: No Address: Ulica Dzielna 24/26, Warsaw, Poland Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie (National Museum in Warsaw) The National Museum's impressive collection of artworks and other items dates from ancient times to the present day and total some 800,000 pieces. Highlights include Jan Matejko's monumental Battle of Grunwald (1878), which celebrates the Polish victory over the Teutonic Knights in 1410, and the Faras Collection of early Christian and Egyptian art, which is unique in Europe. The collection of medieval art is also remarkable -- if somewhat gruesome in parts. Unusually, there are also galleries of Polish and European decorative arts. Frequent temporary exhibitions bring prized international works (from Andy Warhol to Caravaggio) to Warsaw. Opening Times: Tues-Thurs, Sat-Sun 1200-1800, Fri 1200-2000. Admission Fees: Yes (free on Tuesdays) Disabled Access: Yes Unesco: No Address: Aleje Jerozolimskie 3, Warsaw, Poland Park Łazienkowski (Łazienki Park) This splendid park contains a number of palaces as well as the Chopin Monument, where the annual Chopin Festival is held each summer, with free concert recitals in the park twice on Sunday afternoon from mid-May to September) set within extensive 18th-century gardens. Pałac na Wyspie (Palace on the Water) is best viewed from near the monument to Jan Sobiewski, on the bridge where Ulica Agrykola crosses the water. Dating from 1624, Zamek Ujazdowski (Ujazdowski Castle) now houses the Centre for Contemporary Art. The 1764 Pałac Belweder (Belvedere Palace) was of the residence of Poland's presidents until 1994. Opening Times: Most museums are open Tues-Sun 0900-1600; park open daily from 0800 until sunset. Admission Fees: No (charge for Palace on the Water and Centre for Contemporary Art). Disabled Access: Yes Unesco: No Address: Ulica Agrykola 1, Warsaw, Poland =========================================== Warsaw Museums, Warsaw Transport, Warsaw Tours, Warsaw Introduction, Warsaw Attractions, Warsaw Hotels, Warsaw Restaurants, Warsaw Shopping, Warsaw Nightlife, world travel video, Warsaw video, Warsaw, Warsaw Travel guide, Warsaw Tourism, Warsaw Vacation, Poland, Poland travel guide, Poland tourism, Poland vacation, Poland Attractions, Europe === Warsaw - Poland Travel Guide, Tourism, Vacation, Attractions, Travel Tips