Worth a Detour
POLIN Museum
The thousand-year history of Polish Jews, on the site of the wartime ghetto, opposite the Ghetto Heroes Monument.
- Open
- Closed Tuesdays
- Price
- Paid
- Time Needed
- 3 hours
- Address
- Mordechaja Anielewicza 6, 00-157 WarsawDirections
- Getting There
- Tram to Nalewki-Muzeum, about 10 minutes from the center.
Why Go
Before the war, Poland had the largest Jewish community in Europe, and Warsaw's was second only to New York's. The core exhibition follows it from medieval merchants to a full-size painted wooden synagogue ceiling, the Holocaust and after.
Outside stands the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes, where Chancellor Willy Brandt knelt in 1970 in memory of the ghetto uprising of 1943.
Nearby in Warsaw
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