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Officer Cadets School - The Royal Łazienki Museum in Warsaw

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Toward the end of the 17th century, a smaller building stood in the place of today’s Great Annexe (Officer Cadets School). It served as a kitchen, where meals were prepared for the residents of the Bathhouse of Stanisław Herakliusz Lubomirski. In the time of Stanisław August, the building was considerably expanded (according to a design by Domenico Merlini) and then named the Great Annexe....

Warszawa, Masovian

Temporary exhibition: 2025.06.20 - 2025.09.14

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The Royal Garden - The Royal Łazienki Museum in Warsaw

parks and gardens

This is the oldest of the gardens. It was created in the seventeenth century on the marshlands of the former Hunting Grounds which had once belonged to the Grand Marshal of the Crown, Stanisław Herakliusz Lubomirski. Channels were dug through the ground to drain the marshes. A small Italianate garden was laid out on a regular, star-shaped plan close to the Bathhouse pavilion which was built...

Warszawa, Masovian

The Romantic Garden - The Royal Łazienki Museum in Warsaw

parks and gardens

The Romantic Garden adjoining the Belvedere Palace, and composed of many interesting elements and a rich assortment of plants, is an excellent example of nineteenth-century European garden design. The Belvedere Palace, located at the top of the escarpment, dominates this part of the garden which was established in a manner widely acclaimed throughout Europe in the nineteenth century and which...

Warszawa, Masovian

The Chinese Garden - The Royal Łazienki Museum in Warsaw

parks and gardens

The Chinese Garden, situated in the northern, naturalistic part of the Royal Łazienki, was designed according to existing historical models from Prince Kung’s Mansion in Beijing. Additionally, the garden alludes to the chinoiserie style, which reached its peak popularity in the Royal Łazienki thanks to King Stanisław August. It was on his initiative that in 1780 the former Road to Wilanów...

Warszawa, Masovian

The Myślewicki Palace - The Royal Łazienki Museum in Warsaw

palaces, parks and gardens

This splendid palace with its characteristic semi-circular form was originally conceived as the King’s primary residence. With time, however, it began to take on a more official and representative function. Matters of state were discussed in its elegant interiors, and over the centuries the apartments were used to accommodate tsarist generals, members of the Polish government, as well as...

Warszawa, Masovian

The Museum of Medallic Art - The Royal Palace - The City Museum of Wrocław

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The Museum of Medallic Art is the only place in Poland specializing in gathering medallic and phaleristic exhibits. Currently, its vast collection includes around 50 thousand medals, medallions, and plaques, as well as orders, distinctions, Polish and foreign (mainly European) military decorations. The Museum also owns rich documentation of the artistic output of Polish and foreign sculptors...

Wrocław, Lower Silesian

The European Bison Show Farm in the Historic Park of Pszczyna

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The European Bison Show Farm in the Historic Park of Pszczyna has not only the essential facilities for bison breeding, such as feeding racks and fodder stores (two-in-one structures), sheds and garages, but also buildings for tourists, including the main building that serves as an educational and exhibition venue. In addition to displays of the flora and fauna of Poland, the building houses a...

Pszczyna, Silesian, county pszczyński

Astronomical park - The Nicolaus Copernicus Museum in Frombork

parks and gardens, observatories and planetariums

The Astronomical Park of the Nicolaus Copernicus Museum was created thanks to the expansion of the astronomical observatory, existing since 1980, created by astronomy enthusiasts. The idea of the Park is to familiarize visitors with methods of observing celestial bodies from the 16th century to the present day. The park consists of a reception building housing temporary exhibitions and...

Ronin 7, Warmian-Masurian, county braniewski

The New Guardhouse - The Royal Łazienki Museum in Warsaw

parks and gardens

In the place of the contemporary New Guardhouse, an entertainment pavilion known as Trou-Madame was built in the years 1779-1780. Its name came from a popular 18th century game, which consisted in rolling balls through special gates. It was a low, single-storey Chinese-style building adorned with landscape polychromes and painted imitations of a garden arbour. In 1782, the New Guardhouse...

Warszawa, Masovian

The Old Guardhouse - The Royal Łazienki Museum in Warsaw

parks and gardens

The Old Guardhouse is located behind the Palace on the Isle, by the Northern Lake. Guardhouse (corps de garde in French) is a pavilion intended as an outpost for guards. The first building in the Royal Łazienki with this function was shaped like a pyramid covered with vegetation. It existed several years only. The second guardhouse was built near the building used for playing Trou-Madame - a...

Warszawa, Masovian

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