Museum of Warsaw, Historical museum in Old Town Market Square, Poland.
The Muzeum Warszawy is a city museum on the Old Town Market Square in Warsaw, housed in eleven connected tenement buildings that line one side of the square. Its rooms spread across several floors and display objects, maps, and photographs that document how the Polish capital developed over time.
The museum was founded in 1936 as part of the National Museum, with the aim of collecting objects related to the history of the capital. After the destruction of the Warsaw Uprising in 1944, it reopened in 1948 as an independent institution.
The collection brings together everyday objects, photographs, and documents from different periods of city life, all displayed across the connected buildings on the square. Walking through the rooms gives a sense of how ordinary people in Warsaw lived, worked, and traded over the centuries.
The museum is right on the Old Town Market Square and easy to reach on foot from the surrounding streets of the historic quarter. Visiting on a weekday generally means fewer people in the rooms, which makes it easier to look at things at your own pace.
During renovation work in 2010, workers found a hidden cache of more than 1,200 coins from the 17th and 18th centuries buried in the basement of one of the buildings. The find points to how active trade was on the square during those centuries.
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