Phone:

847 36 45

Description:

The Museum was set up in the flat where the poet lived from 1948 until her death. The exhibition attempts to recreate the atmosphere of this room during the poet's lifetime.

Kazimiera Iłłakowiczówna (1892-1983) was a Polish poet, prose writer and translator. Started writing poetry in 1905 and received the national poetry award in 1935.

Opening hours:

Mon. 1pm.-3pm., Thu. 4pm.-6pm.

Ticket's prices:

free admission

Exhibition:

The studio is divided into 2 sections. The first contains an exhibition of literary and iconographic materials and mementoes of the poet's life and work, including the first edition of "The Flights of Icarus", her literary debut from 1911.
The second part of the studio is an authentic mock-up of the interior of the poet's flat. Everything remains exactly as it was during Kazimiera Iłłakowiczówna's lifetime - equipment, books, paintings and other objects used in daily life.

Phone:

852 82 51, 852 64 30

Fax:

852 53 06

WWW:

www.muzarp.poznan.pl

Opening hours:

Tue. - Fri. 10 am. - 4 pm.
Sat. 10 am. - 6 pm.
Sun - 10 am. - 3 pm.

Ticket's prices:

6 PLN/3 PLN, Saturdays entrance free

Exhibition:

Its permanent collections include The Prehistory of Wielkopolska, Life and Death in Ancient Egypt and The Archeology of Sudan.
The Prehistory of Wielkopolska features archeological finds illustrating the ancient history of Western Poland. The Life and Death in Ancient Egypt collection illustrates papyrus and hieroglyphic writing, the evolution of Egyptian art, worship and funeral rite objects (including mummies).

Phone:

852 61 95

E-mail:

muzeum@archpoznan.org.pl

WWW:

www.muzeum.poznan.pl

Description:

Poznańskie Muzeum Archidiecezjalne jest jedną z najstarszych tego typu instytucji w kraju i jedną z pierwszych placówek muzealnych w Poznaniu.

Phone:

061 820 45 03

WWW:

www.muzeumniepodleglosci.poznan.pl

Opening hours:

Tue.-Sat. 9 am.-4 pm.; Sun. 10 am.-4pm.

Ticket's prices:

admission free

Exhibition:

The "Poznań' Army museum documents the history of military science in Wielkopolska from the Uprising to the September campaign of 1939 and the Polish underground during the Second World War. A wide range of objects are on display, including mementoes, military effects, graphics, pictures, documents, publications, press, photographs and films. The museum is currently undergoing a thorough renovation. Visitors can also view the temporary exhibition "The Battle of the Bzura".

Phone:

857 51 66

Description:

Muzeum znajduje się w jednostce wojskowej i na zwiedzanie trzeba się  umówić  telefonicznie.

Phone:

061 852 30 06

WWW:

www.mnp.art.pl

Description:

Established in 1986, the Ethnographic Museum is housed in the former Masonic lodge building, an early 19th century late Classicist edifice. At that time, the plot of land was purchased from the city by Free Masons who immediately proceeded with the construction. The architectural design was most likely authored by Lodge Master Christian Wernicke the Piast.

Opening hours:

Tue., Wed., Fri., Sat. 10am.-4pm.; Sun. 10am.-3pm.

Ticket's prices:

5,50/ 3,30 zł, Saturdays admission free

Exhibition:

The Museum houses artifacts of Wielkopolska folk culture.
The permanent exhibition entitled Folk Art in Wielkopolska features 19th and 20th century sculptures, paintings, folk costumes, embroidery, decorative items (of ceramic, iron and wood), worship objects and musical instruments. The items are grouped into four categories displayed in Textiles and Folk Costumes, Folk Art, Technology and Non-European Cultures Sections.

Phone:

061 851 66 15

Description:

The Poznań Pharmacy Museum opened in June 1989. The exhibits are donations and deposits from Wielkopolska's pharmacists and their beneficiaries, the Museum of Pharmacy at Kraków's Jagiellonian University. A small number were purchased.

Opening hours:

Mon., Wed., Fri. 9am.-3pm.

Ticket's prices:

admission free

Exhibition:

The majority of exhibits are presented in the dispensary dating from the turn of the 19th century, transferred from Miłosław near Września. The exhibits include a large amount of pharmaceutical equipment from wood, white and coloured glass, stoneware and porcelain. Most date from the end of the 19th century, although the oldest exhibits come from the late 17th century.

Phone:

852 08 57

E-mail:

muzinstr@mnp.art.pl

WWW:

mnp.art.pl

Description:

Tue.-Sat. 11am.-5 pm.; Sun 10 am.-3pm.

Ticket's prices:

5,50/ 3,50 PLN; Sat. admission free

Exhibition:

Housed in the historic tenant buildings of the Old Market Square, the Museum is the only one of its kind in Poland, ranking the third largest in Europe. Its collection features some 2,000 items from all parts of the world. The permanent exhibition is made up of stringed instruments, a vast collection of pianos, wooden and brass instruments. Individual displays have been devoted to Polish folk instruments and instruments from Africa, Australia and Oceania, Americas, Asia and Europe.

Phone:

061 852 24 96

Description:

The Henryk Sienkiewicz Literary Museum is located in a Renaissance house that once belonged to Giovanni Baptiste Quadro, an Italian architect and creator of the Poznań City Hall. In adapting the building to serve as the museum, the designers were careful to preserve architectural details such as antique ceilings, niches, arches, pillars and moldings. The Museum's collections are displayed in turn-of-the-century interiors. Its rooms contain samples of 19th and 20thcentury artisanship, works of art, books, etc., all arranged around motifs related to Sienkiewicz's life and work.

Opening hours:

Mon. - Fri. 10am.-5pm.

Ticket's prices:

3/ 2 zł

Exhibition:

The present collection is composed of many valuable exhibits connected to Sienkiewicz's personal life and writing, while the exposition's general atmosphere constitutes an authentic document of the era.
The permanent exhibition is comprised of biographic materials (letters, manuscripts, period photographs), first editions and translations, as well as art works inspired by the person and writings of Henryk Sienkiewicz.

Phone:

848 31 38

WWW:

www.muzeumniepodleglosci.poznan.pl

Opening hours:

Tuesday - Saturday 9 am.- 5 pm.
Sunday 10am. - 4 pm.

Ticket's prices:

free entrance

Exhibition:

The Museum of Wielkopolska Martyrs is housed in Fort VII - Colomb.

The museum documents Wielkopolskan martyrdom under Nazi occupation with a wide range of exhibits from that time. There is a rich collection of camp literature, drawings, photographs, prisoners personal effects, documents issued by the occupying German authorities and everyday objects: 'bread medallions', wallets, dictionaries and rosaries.

Phone:

847 63 59

E-mail:

turystyka@aw.poznan.pl

WWW:

aw.poznan.pl/gospod/muzeum/index.htm

Description:

The Museum is located at Poznan's busiest intersection, Rondo Kaponiera, at the very heart of the city. Within the space of some 600 sq. meters, the Museum features some thirty cars and motorcycles. Every so often, the collection is rotated to allow visitors to see some of the other items of the Club members' much larger holdings that would not all fit into the limited display area of the Museum. All of the cars and motorcycles featured at the Museum are in excellent working order. In fact, they are regularly driven in Polish and foreign rallies of vintage vehicles, they are rented for weddings and films.

Opening hours:

Tue., Wed., Fri., Sat. 10am.-4pm; Sun. 10am.-3pm.

Ticket's prices:

4 / 3,50 zł

Exhibition:

Among the Museum's oldest exhibits are American cars - the Reo car dating back to 1909, Overland from 1923 and Nash from 1926. Among the most recent exhibits two attract special attention, namely Plymouth PD and a 40-year-old Syrena, which took part in the Monte Carlo rally in 2004. Motorcycle lovers will definitely notice a huge 1928 Harley Davidson.

Phone:

856 80 00, 852 59 69

Fax:

851 58 98

WWW:

www.mnp.art.pl

Description:

Opening hours:

Tue. 10am.-6pm.;Wed. 9am.-5pm.;Thu. 10am.-4pm.; Fri.-Sat. 10am.-5pm.;Sun. 10am-3pm.

Ticket's prices:

10/6 zl, Sat. entrance free

Exhibition:

Built in 1904, the eclectic seat of the National Museum's Gallery of Paintings and Sculpture features mainly collections of Western European paintings, including early 19th century Netherlandic, Dutch, Flemish, Italian, and German works and Poland's only collection of Spanish paintings, including works by Francisco Zurbaran, Diego Velasquez and Jose de Ribera. The Poznan collection also comprises valuable works by French masters.

Phone:

852 20 35

WWW:

www.mnp.art.pl

Opening hours:

Tue.-Sat. 10am.-4pm.; Sun. 10am.-3pm.

Ticket's prices:

5,50/ 3,50 PLN; Saturdays admission free

Exhibition:

The Museum is housed in the former Royal Castle of Poznan, which was erected in 1249, initially to serve as a residential tower of the Poznan Prince Przemysl I.
The Museum displays furniture, decorative fabrics, valuable silver, china, faience, and tin vessels as well as a variety of decorations once found in castles, palaces or shrines, old clocks and parade weaponry. While most of the items come from Europe, some have been brought in from as far as China and Japan.

Phone:

061 820 45 03

WWW:

www.muzeumniepodleglosci.poznan.pl

Description:

The Museum of Arms is located on the premises of the former Fort Winiary (the Poznań Citadel), in a Military Laboratory bunker added on in 1872. Originally used to make gun powder and shells, the facility was later converted to a munitions depot.The biggest attraction of its permanent exhibition are its outdoor displays of military equipment featuring over a dozen military vehicles, nine airplanes, two helicopters, five tanks, as well as numerous canons and mortars.The biggest attraction of its permanent exhibition are its outdoor displays of military equipment.

Opening hours:

Tue.-Sat. 9am.-4pm., Sun. 10am.-4pm.

Ticket's prices:

4/ 2 zł, Fridays admission free

Exhibition:

The oldest items date back to the early 19th century. Particularly remarkable are the Russian World War II tanks: the light T-34 and the unique IS-2 (made in one of the first production runs in 1944), the widelyknown BM-13N Katyusha rocket launcher mounted atop an American Studebaker US-6 truck chassis as well as the cars: the unique ZiS-5/12 fitted with an American anti-aircraft search light Z-15-4/3 and three ZIS-151 cars, each with a radiolocation station.

Phone:

061 855 12 44

Description:

Józef Ignacy KRASZEWSKI (28th July 1812 - 19th March 1887) - Polish writer, publicist, publisher, historian, social and political activist and Polish literature's most prolific writer. His body of work amounts to over 220 novels (with over 400,000 copies published in the 19th century), over 150 novellas and short stories. Some of his works have been brought to the big screen.

Opening hours:

Mon.-Fri. 10am.-2pm.

Ticket's prices:

admission free

Exhibition:

The studio was set up on the initiative of Marian Walczak, an admirer of the writer, who bequeathed his collection to the Mayor of Poznaƒ in 1979. This contains 19th and 20th century editions of Kraszewski's works (almost 3,000 volumes) and also original photographs from the author's life. There are also sculptures, medals, graphics and a substantial collection of press cuttings.

Phone:

853 19 93, 851 72 89

Fax:

+48 61 851 72 89

WWW:

www.muzeumniepodleglosci.poznan.pl

Description:

The museum is housed in the Guardhouse on Poznan's Old Market Square.

Opening hours:

Tue., Thu., Fri. 10 am.-5pm.; Wed. 10 am.-6pm.;Sat.-Sun. 10 am.-3pm.

Ticket's prices:

4/ 2 zł; Saturday admission free

Exhibition:

The permanent exhibition chronicles the events of the Wielkopolska Uprising 1918-1919. The Museum documents Wielkopolska's independence traditions from the first half of the 19th century, through the Wielkopolska Uprisings to the inter-war period. The wide range of exhibits from this time include mementoes, military effects, graphics, pictures, documents, publications, press, photographs and films.

Phone:

852 67 39

WWW:

www.mnp.art.pl

Description:

The post-World War II pavilions located in the southern part of Old Market Square house the Wielkopolska Military Museum. Reconstructed from scratch after war-time devastation, the Museum's collection comprises nearly 40,000 items. The exhibits are divided into the three sections of Arms, Uniforms & Military Signs and Historic Documentation.

Opening hours:

Tue.-Sat. 10am.-4pm.; Sun. 10am.-3pm.

Ticket's prices:

3,50/ 2,20 zł; Saturday admission free

Exhibition:

The present collection of arms illustrates advances in arms development in Poland from the 11th century to the present times. The oldest uniforms date back to the 18th century and to the era of the Warsaw Duchy (headwear). The only pre-World War II item saved from the devastation of the war is a fragment of the 1901 panorama by Wojciech Kossak depicting The Battle of the Pyramids.

Phone:

852 95 64, 853 60 81 w. 259

Fax:

+48 61 852 94 64

Description:

Housed in the old Kaiser's Palace, the scene of Poznan's
"Black Thursday", and now the Zamek ("Castle") Cultural Centre.

Opening hours:

Closed due to renovation untill October

Exhibition:

The museum contains collections connected directly with
"Poznań June 1956' and also with anti-Communist
opposition in a wider sense. Exhibits include photographs
and memorabilia of the participants and victims of the event
in Poznań in June 1956 and also all historical sources of
anti-communist opposition activities in Wielkopolska
between 1945 and 1989 as well as the great Polish
"watersheds" of 1956, 1968, 1970, 19767, 1980-1981
and 1989.

Phone:

+48 61 855-14-35

Fax:

+48 61 855-14-35

E-mail:

makieta@makieta.poznan.pl

WWW:

www.makieta.poznan.pl

Description:

The model shows Poznań as it was presented in Braun-Hogenberg's picture of 1618. Its central part is covered by a town located on the left bank of Warta River, in the circle of medieval walls. Additionally, you can see a miniature of Ostrów Tumski, which is of great importance in the history of Poznań and Poland, as well as miniatures of the following suburban villages: Chwaliszewo, Garbary, St. Martin and St. Adalbert.
Visitors may listen to a half-hour recording on historical Poznaƒ, the life of its residents and how the town has evolved over the ages. A lighting system highlights successive sections of the town as they are described in the recording.

Opening hours:

daily; the show begins at: 9:30am, 10:15am, 11am, 11:45am, 12:30am, 1:15pm, 2pm, 2:45pm, 3:30pm, 4:15pm, 5:00pm; from June to September also at 5:45pm, 6:30pm, 7:15pm

Ticket's prices:

8 zł, reduced fare 6 zł

Exhibition:

The show of lights, sound and special effect with a commentary in Polish, English, German, French, Italian, Spanish and Russian. The show takes about 30 min. The model consists of 2300 objects in scale 1:150.

Phone:

+48 61 657 99 01 wew. 10

Description:

The Poznań Bamber Museum holds a record of the history and culture of Bamber farmers stemming from the Bamberg area who arrived in Poznaƒ at the invitation of the city's authorities to settle down and help reconstruct nearby villages (today's city districts).

Opening hours:

Friday - Saturday 10am-2pm, groups are required to be announced earlier - tel. 061 847-43-54

Ticket's prices:

entrance free

Exhibition:

With rare exceptions, the Museum displays items from the 19th and early 20th centuries illustrating the culture of local rural area Bambers.
The exhibition shows a 19th century house of a wealthy Bamber farmer, surrounded by a garden and furnished with furniture, tools and pictures.
The most precious items include:
- a turn of the 17th century baptism bonnet from Bamberg
(deposited with the Museum),
- embroidered bonnets, bands and scarves.

Phone:

+48 61 87 87 460

Fax:

+48 61 87 87 850

E-mail:

swiatlecha@kp.pl

WWW:

www.zwiedzaniebrowaru.pl

Description:

A possibility to visit the most technically advanced brewery in Europe. Find out about beer brewing secrets.

Opening hours:

Make an appointment calling 061 87 87 460.
Visiting hours: Mon, Wed 10-20.30
Tue, Thu, Fri, Sat 10-14

Tours are organised with English speaking guides.

Ticket's prices:

free

Phone:

061 851 90 12

Description:

St Adalbert's Church (Św. Wojciech), built in the 19th century, overlooks the city from St Adalbert's Hill. In front of the church there is wooden, shingled-covered bell-tower dating from the 16th and 17th century, the oldest wooden construction in the city.

The Crypt for Eminent Wielkopolskans in St Adalbert's Church came into existence in 1923 on the initiative of Rev. Bogusław Kościelski and is modelled on the Skałka Crypt in Kraków. At that time the ashes of eminent citizens of Wielkopolska started to be brought to the church.

Opening hours:

Sat. 11am.-1pm., Sun. 1pm.-4pm.

Ticket's prices:

1 zł

Exhibition:

In the south nave of the church itself lies the sarcophagus of Karol Marcinkowski, the 19th -century doctor and philanthropist. The ashes are interred in the Crypt include those of: Józef Wybicki, composer of the Polish National Anthem; Antoni Kosiński, the cofounder of Dąbrowski's Legions; Heliodor Święcicki - the founder and first Vice-Chancellor of Poznań University; Tadeusz Szeligowski - composer and the heart of General Jan Dąbrowski.

Phone:

+48 61 847 56 01

Fax:

+48 61 847 36 68

Phone:

+48 61 869 93 61 w. 338

Fax:

+48 61 866 37 08

WWW:

www.mpk.poznan.pl

Description:

furnishings of old trams: ticket punchers etc., from before the WW II till today

Opening hours:

Tuesday - Thursday, 12.00-3pm.

Phone:

+48 61 851-72-89

Fax:

+48 61 851-72-89

WWW:

www.muzeumniepodleglosci.poznan.pl

Description:

Wielkopolskie Muzeum Walk Niepodległościowych posiada pięć oddziałów usytuowanych w zabytkowych obiektach Poznania:
- Muzeum Powstania Wielkopolskiego 1918-1919 mieści się w budynku "Odwachu" na Starym Rynku
- Muzeum Uzbrojenia usytuowano na terenie dawnego Fortu Winiary - Cytadeli Poznańskiej
- Muzeum Armii "Poznań" usytuowano na terenie dawnego Fortu Winiary - Cytadeli Poznańskiej
- Muzeum Martyrologii Wielkopolan - Fort VII zlokalizowane jest w Forcie VII - Colomb
- Muzeum Poznańskiego Czerwca 1956 roku mieści się w dawnym Zamku Cesarskim, ul. Św. Marcin 80/82

Phone:

+48 61 853 40 76

E-mail:

townowowiejskiego@wp.pl

WWW:

www.nowowiejski.pl

Description:

Salon funkcjonuje jako placówka edukacyjna, kulturalna i artystyczna promująca życie i dzieło Feliksa Nowowiejskiego. Planowane są też koncerty kameralne jako kontynuacja tradycji rodziny Nowowiejskich z okresu międzywojennego i powojennego. Salon ma ambicje promowania młodych talentów; uczniów i studentów szkół muzycznych.

Salon otwarty został 7 lutego 2008 r., w 131. rocznicę urodzin Feliksa Nowowiejskiego, w domu przy alei Wielkopolskiej 11 na Sołaczu  w Poznaniu, w miejscu, gdzie żył i tworzył kompozytor w latach 1929-1939 i gdzie zmarł 18 stycznia 1946 roku, po powrocie z wojennej tułaczki.

W mieszkaniu - Salonie Muzycznym, by zachować cząstkę świata kompozytora, pozostawiono pierwotny układ wystroju wnętrz, dzieł sztuki, instrumentów oraz przedmiotów codziennego użytku tak, aby dać zwiedzającym możliwość zapoznania się z bogatym zbiorem pamiątek po kompozytorze.

Powstanie salonu możliwe było dzięki dofinansowaniu ze środków Miasta Poznania: Poznań - Europejska Stolica Kultury 2016.

Salon prowadzi Towarzystwo imienia Feliksa Nowowiejskiego.

Phone:

+48 61 856 80 00

WWW:

www.mnp.art.pl

Description:

aktualizacja sierpień 2009