Zoos and open-air museums with a map, route and photos
20 places and 942 points on the maps. Open a place to see its map, the highlights with photos and tips before you go.
Photo Abraham, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia CommonsSilesian Zoo in Chorzów
36 points · approx. 4 h 30 min visit
The Silesian Zoological Garden lies in Silesian Park, on the border of Chorzów and Katowice, and covers more than 47 ha. It opened in 1958, and today it is home to over 200 animal…
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Photo Andrzej Otrębski, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia CommonsGdańsk Zoo
95 points · approx. 4 h 30 min visit
Gdańsk Zoo has been open since 1 May 1954 in the Forest Mill Valley (Dolina Leśnego Młyna) in Oliwa, by the Rymaszewski stream, and is one of the largest zoos in Poland: it covers…
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Photo Igor123121, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia CommonsKraków Zoo
44 points · approx. 3 h 30 min visit
Kraków Zoo opened on 6 July 1929 on Pustelnik hill in Wolski Forest, about 8 km from the city centre. Around 1,500 animals of 260 species live on almost 17 hectares of woodland. Families…
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Photo Dawid Galus, CC BY-SA 3.0 pl, Wikimedia CommonsOpole Zoo
41 points · approx. 4 h visit
Opole Zoo lies on Bolko Island on the Oder and covers about 20 hectares. According to the zoo, it is home to about 5,000 animals of more than 440 species, including about 70 rare…
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Photo Mateusz Giełczyński, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia CommonsNew Zoo in Poznań
46 points · approx. 4 h 30 min visit
The New Zoo is the larger part of Poznań's Zoological Garden: more than 120 hectares of hilly forest on Biała Góra, beyond the eastern end of Lake Malta, with six large ponds. The first…
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Photo Przemek P, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia CommonsWarsaw Zoo
69 points · approx. 4 h 30 min visit
The Antonina and Jan Żabiński Municipal Zoological Garden has been open in Praga since 11 March 1928 and covers about 40 ha by the Vistula, next to Praski Park. More than 11,000 animals of…
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Photo Koroniec, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia CommonsWrocław Zoo
147 points · approx. 5 h visit
Wrocław Zoo has been open since 10 July 1865 and covers 33 hectares by the Old Oder, right next to the Centennial Hall. Well over ten thousand animals of more than 1,100 species live…
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Photo Kapitel, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia CommonsOrientarium Zoo Łódź
41 points · approx. 4 h 30 min visit
Łódź's municipal zoo was founded in 1938 in Park na Zdrowiu and today covers 16.64 ha. Since 2022 its heart has been the Orientarium, a pavilion devoted to South-East Asia, where Indian elephants, Sumatran…
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Photo Krzysztof Bulla, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia CommonsChorzów Open-Air Museum
65 points · approx. 3 h visit
The Upper Silesian Ethnographic Park in Chorzów is an open-air museum in Silesian Park, opened to visitors on 1 June 1975. On about 33 hectares stand around 78 historic buildings from the 17th to…
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Photo Łukasz Bakuła, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia CommonsDziekanowice Open-Air Museum
23 points · approx. 3 h visit
The Greater Poland Ethnographic Park is the open-air museum of the Museum of the First Piasts at Lednica, on the shore of Lake Lednica. Work on the museum village began in 1975, and it…
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Photo M.Bucka, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia CommonsLublin Open-Air Museum
26 points · approx. 3 h 30 min visit
The Lublin Open-Air Village Museum covers about 23 hectares in Lublin's Sławin district, above the valley of the Czechówka river. Historic buildings from the whole Lublin region are set out in seven sectors: the…
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Photo Dawid Galus, CC BY-SA 3.0 pl, Wikimedia CommonsOlsztynek Open-Air Museum
34 points · approx. 3 h visit
The Ethnographic Park in Olsztynek is an open-air museum of wooden and brick rural architecture from Warmia, Masuria, Powiśle and Lithuania Minor. Its beginnings go back to 1909 and the village museum in Królewiec…
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Photo Dawid Galus, CC BY-SA 3.0 pl, Wikimedia CommonsOpole Open-Air Museum
47 points · approx. 3 h visit
The Opole Open-Air Village Museum is in Opole-Bierkowice; it was established in 1961 and opened to visitors on 23 September 1970. On just over 10 hectares, 49 wooden buildings from all over the Opole…
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Photo M.Bucka, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia CommonsRadom Open-Air Museum
18 points · approx. 3 h visit
The Radom Open-Air Village Museum is on the south-western edge of Radom, in the valley of the Mleczna river. The museum was established in 1976 and opened in 1980; the first building moved here…
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Photo Henryk Bielamowicz, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia CommonsSanok Open-Air Museum
55 points · approx. 3 h 30 min visit
The Museum of Folk Architecture in Sanok is an ethnographic park covering 38 ha at the foot of Biała Góra, on the right bank of the San, founded in 1958. More than 180 buildings…
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Photo 1bumer, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia CommonsSierpc Open-Air Museum
22 points · approx. 3 h visit
The Museum of the Mazovian Countryside was founded in 1971, and from 1975 its ethnographic park was laid out on the former Bojanowo estate, by the Sierpienica river right where it flows into the…
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Photo RR KRK, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia CommonsTokarnia Open-Air Museum
48 points · approx. 3 h visit
The Ethnographic Park in Tokarnia, a branch of the Museum of the Kielce Countryside (Muzeum Wsi Kieleckiej), is the largest open-air museum in Poland: more than 80 historic buildings from the Świętokrzyskie region have…
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Photo 1bumer, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia CommonsToruń Open-Air Museum
18 points · approx. 1 h 30 min visit
The Ethnographic Park of the Maria Znamierowska-Prüfferowa Ethnographic Museum is an open-air museum right in the centre of Toruń, near the Old Town, opened to visitors in 1969. On 1.7 ha stand 19 large…
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Photo Asiasmok, CC BY-SA 3.0 pl, Wikimedia CommonsOchla Open-Air Museum
35 points · approx. 3 h visit
The open-air museum in Ochla, about 8 km from the centre of Zielona Góra, covers more than 13 hectares among ponds, fields and forest. About 80 examples of old rural architecture from western Greater…
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Photo Zontarlj, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia CommonsZubrzyca Górna Open-Air Museum
32 points · approx. 2 h 30 min visit
The first open-air museum in post-war Poland grew up around the manor house of the Moniak family of village heads, which the family's descendants handed over to the state in 1937; it opened to…
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