Plan your visit

Location

Warsaw Citadel

7282+5C Warsaw

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Godziny otwarcia Muzeum

Opening hours from
October 4

Mondays: closed to public
Tuesdays: closed to public
Wednesdays: 10.00-18.00
Thursdays: 10.00-18.00
Fridays: 10.00-18.00 (free entrance)
Saturdays: 10.00-19.00
Sundays: 10.00-19.00

Last entry to the temporary exhibition one hour before closing.

Guided tours

The guided tour service includes a visit to the temporary exhibition: Big and Small Stories. How the Polish History Museum’s Collection Was Built. 

You can order a tour via Public Service Office - open from Monday to Friday from 10.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m., telephone: 22 255 76 27, e-mail: bop@muzhp.pl

We have 16 tour languages: Polish, English, German, French, Russian, Hungarian, Chinese, Italian, Spanish, Czech, Dutch, Hebrew, Serbian, Turkish, Bulgarian, Portuguese.

Only guides who have completed the course and have a valid certificate issued by the Polish History Museum give tours around the Polish History Museum. Each certified guide has a Polish History Museum guide ID.

See our guides.

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Guided tours

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Entrance fees / Tickets

Entrance fees / Tickets

Tickets can be purchased at the Museum's box office (payment in cash, card, Blik) or online.


Children up to 7 years old, free entry.


Attention! For security reasons, the number of tickets available for a given hour is limited. We encourage you to purchase tickets online, especially on weekends.

Free admission on Fridays: on this day, you can collect free tickets at the Museum's ticket office.

Ticket prices after November 10, 2023

Normal ticket: PLN 10

Reduced ticket: PLN 5

Children up to 7 years of age: free entry

Children from 7 years of age, pupils and students up to 26 years of age upon presentation of an ID card: PLN 1

Family ticket: PLN 15
(ticket for 1 or 2 adults + children, maximum: 6 people)

Group ticket (min. 10 people): PLN 7/ person

Free admission on Fridays: on this day, you can collect free tickets at the Museum's ticket office.

Attention! For security reasons, the number of tickets available for a given hour is limited. We encourage you to purchase tickets online, especially on weekends.

Reduced tickets are available (Act on museums of November 21, 1996): pupils, students and people pursuing doctoral studies, students of teacher training institutions and colleges, social service workers, guardians of school and kindergarten groups, teachers and educators, disabled people and their guardians , retirees and pensioners, people over 65 years of age, veterans, awarded honorary titles/badges: "For the care of monuments", "Distinguished cultural activist", "Merit for Polish Culture" and "Merit for National Culture".

Natural persons awarded the Order of the White Eagle, the Virtuti Militari Military Order, the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland, the Gloria Artis Medal for Merit to Culture are exempt from paying admission fees to the Museum; employees of museums entered in the State Register of Museums, members of ICOM and ICOMOS; holders of the Pole's Card referred to in the Act of September 7, 2007; children up to 7 years old, veterans and injured veterans, and visual artists associated with the Association of Polish Visual Artists.

Access to the museum

The Polish History Museum is located on the grounds of the Warsaw Citadel, in the district of Żoliborz.

For pedestrians

Nearest public transport stops:

• Warszawa Gdańska stop - accessible by the underground, bus and tram (entrance through Żoliborska Gate)
• Park Traugutta stop - access by bus and tram (entrance through Nowomiejska Gate)
• Cytadela stop - access by bus (entrance through the Execution Gate)

Current timetables are available on the website www.wtp.waw.pl. 

Pedestrian entrances to the Citadel:

• Żoliborska Gate, 13 Dymińska St.
• Bielańska Gate, Czujna St.
• Nowomiejska (Katyn) Gate, 4 Jana Jeziorańskiego St.
• Straceń (Execution) Gate, 6 Karola Levittoux St.
• Entrance from Wybrzeże Gdyńskie

Entrance for persons with disabilities:

• Żoliborska Gate

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Mapa wjazdu na pas boczny prowadzący do Muzeum Historii Polski

Parking lots

Access only from the Wybrzeże Gdyńskie road.

Cars
underground parking, fee: PLN 6/hour.

Coaches
above-ground parking lot intended only for parking buses.

Access to the parking lots:

• NOTE: It is not possible to access the parking lot from the main lane of the Wybrzeże Gdyńskie road.
• Entry to the parking lots is only possible from the side lane from the Wybrzeże Gdyńskie road towards the Center. You should exit Wybrzeże Gdyńskie/ Wisłostrada road before the intersection with ul. Krasińskiego.
• The entrance road to the parking lot is located directly behind the Fosa i Stoki park.
• From ul. Krasińskiego: choose the right lane, direction Śródmieście/ Mokotów/ Ursynów.

Access via Wisłostrada from ul. Krasińskiego and from the E67 route - towards the Center.

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MHP/ M. Karasek

Entrance gate to the car and coach parking lot from the Wybrzeże Gdyńskie / Wisłostrada.

Museum Visit Rules

Regulations of sale and participation in the program offer

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