This Saturday is Museum Night!

Several hundred attractions will be available to choose from during the upcoming Museum Night in Warsaw. This Saturday night will start in the afternoon – attractions have been prepared for both the youngest and adults, so that everyone can see as much as possible. Usually, the offer related to public transport enjoys huge interest, but queues also form in front of famous museums. However, the city encourages you to go to unusual events, prepared especially for this evening.

On the night of 17-18 May, over 300 institutions will be open, several dozen for the first time – including the Collections Storehouse of the Museum of Literature and the Warsaw University of Life Sciences Museum. As in previous years, it will be possible to visit not only museums or places associated with culture, but also those that are not normally accessible, such as archives, ministries or courts.

It is worth remembering that on Museum Night the metro, trams and buses will run until 2:30 a.m., and some will run with increased frequency.

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At a special stand of the Capital City of Warsaw, under the Youth Palace, tickets for visiting the viewing terrace of the Palace of Culture and Science will be distributed. A total of 2,800 tickets will be available to visitors, each with a designated time - between 6:00 p.m. and 12:30 a.m. Also at this stand, it will be possible to obtain comprehensive information about the cultural offer and the organization of special museum lines prepared for this night.

In the city zone, you will also be able to take a souvenir photo, send it by e-mail and print it as a sticker. The photos of the participants will be used to create a giant "Museum Night" sign, which will be a souvenir of this event and a material shared on social media (it is best to mark them with the hashtag #nocmuzeów2025 and #NocMuzeówwWarszawie).

In addition, a stationary exhibition of historic vehicles has been planned for the youngest transport enthusiasts.

Anniversaries and beginnings

The celebration of the 80th anniversary of the reconstruction of Warsaw is underway, and includes an exhibition State Archives at Krzywe Koło Street 7 which presents the activities of the Capital Reconstruction Office and presents maps, plans and photos from the reconstruction of Warsaw. There will also be a corner of archival tips and a meeting with the legendary resident of Krzywe Koło Street – Bazyliszek.

For the first time, he also invites The Ksiuty Gallery in the Center, or the Double Wings Association at ul. Środkowa 14, lok. U2. The gallery's collection includes over two hundred Marys – Marian figurines and shrines, reflecting local spirituality and the backyard tradition so characteristic of the pre-war Praga district of Warsaw.

Also worth visiting The Collections Storeroom of the Museum of Literature at ul. Trawiasta 29 (Wawer), where you will be able to visit Melchior Wańkowicz's office. The exhibition is an attempt to recreate the writer's offices from his apartments in Mokotów.

Like every year Staszic Palace invites Polish Radio, but this time exceptionally, because the station is celebrating its 100th anniversary. You will be able to discover rich collections and learn how radio has changed over the years. Additionally, in the Staszic Palace you will be able to participate in events organized by the Polish Academy of Sciences.

The Association of Polish Composers, Warsaw Branch, has prepared an open-air concert in the Fosa Park under the Cannon Tower of the Warsaw Citadel (al. Wojska Polskiego 1B). This is a unique event that will close this year's Warsaw Music Meetings. "The talkativeness of trees“ is a spatial musical installation by Anna Jędrzejewska, which refers to the communication between plants. The audience will walk freely surrounded by a combination of several loudspeakers of different sizes.

A combination of an outdoor game and puzzle rooms in the style of escape room proposes on the Night of Museums John Paul II Thought Center at ul. Foksal 11. Warsaw scholarship holders of the institution invite you to join Guardians of Hope – Foksal, or mysterious little creatures who watch over the level of wisdom in the world. Everyone can become part of their mission – to give hope to those who lack it and save the world from chaos, and at the same time – have fun, solve puzzles and discover the nooks and crannies of the artistic tenement house on Foksal.

Walking routes - suggestions

If someone does not decide on specific suggestions themselves, they can use the proposed routes, e.g. around Konstytucji Square with a visit to the University of Technology, the Life in the Polish People's Republic museum, the Library on Koszykowa Street, several galleries and the Cecylia Plater-Zyberkówna Private School.

A route has also been planned on the right side of the Vistula – from the Stalowa Depot to Hallera Square. In addition to visiting the bus depot, you will be able to visit the Praga Cultural Centre in the Konopacki Palace on Strzelecka Street, where the programme includes a concert of Balkan music, a neighbourhood collage of Praga memories and a tour of the restored 19th-century building. Those following this route will also see the Memorial Room on Strzelecka Street 8 with an exhibition entitled “The Red Map of Warsaw” and historic cellars with preserved traces of the former detention centre of the Provincial Public Security Office. In addition, the Warsaw historical studio of Lidia and Jan Bohdan Chmielewski on Jagiellońska Street 56/1/1a, which is inviting for the first time. Inside, you can see an exhibition on Polish modernism.

Around the metro station

By Center Station Visitors will be able to enjoy attractions in the PKO BP Rotunda, opened for the first time on the Night of the Museum. In addition to the exhibition of the bank's collection of contemporary art, there are also attractions for children, and concerts, games and a light show for everyone. And the nearby National Museum of Technology in the Palace of Culture and Science invites you to two newest exhibitions: "Media of Our Times - History of Radio and Television" and "Nature the Greatest Inventor".

Near Świętokrzyska station of course, you will be able to visit the new building of the Museum of Modern Art, but also take a look behind the scenes of the Lalka Theatre, where the tour program includes puppet and construction workshops as well as the electro-acoustic cabin – the center of the sound magic of each performance.

Getting off at Słodowiec station they will be they could see the spectacle prepared by Bielański Cultural Centre / MAL Kasprowicza 14, the main element of which will be the 49-year-old VICTORIA sign, a coffer dismantled from the Sofitel Warsaw Victoria hotel in 2011.

From the bus stop to Młociny best to reach ArcelorMittal Warszawa Steelworks at ul. Kasprowicza 132. There, from 2:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., you can visit the shelter in the basement of the Huta Warszawa office building. The facility was built at the turn of the 1950s and 1960s and has been preserved intact with full equipment.

Close Daszyński Roundabout it fits Warsaw Uprising Museum. In addition to visiting the permanent exhibition, the eleventh season of the Summer Room – the summer cultural and recreational pavilion at the Museum – is also inaugurated there on this night.

Suggestions for children

The Primary School of the School Foundation at ul. Obrzeżna 12a in Mokotów invites you from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. to explore the secrets of artificial intelligence, conduct chemical experiments, build impressive structures in the engineering room and launch balloon rockets, and even create your own unique cosmetics.

In turn, the Warsaw Laboratory of Social Innovation Synergia, CookLab – Culinary FabLab (ul. Targowa 66, lok. 33) will organize culinary workshops with the famous pyzy from Bazar Różycki in the background from 4:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

Wolskie Centrum Kultury at Col. Kuźmirski-Pacak Square from 8:30 to 10:00 p.m. will prepare an event – Night Life of the Giraffe. WCK invites you to take part in a field game at the Square, where there are 17 sculptures that were created as part of the Metal Sculpture Biennale in 1968. The winners will receive small gifts.

For dessert, you can visit the new E. Wedel Chocolate Factory Museum. This is the first night of this facility; previously, tours were only available in part of the plant. In addition to the educational exhibition area, the building also houses production lines. Another attraction is the viewing terrace, which offers a beautiful panorama of Warsaw, as well as a view of Lake Kamionkowskie. Admission is free, but tickets are required - tickets can be booked from 16 May, from 12:00 on the museum's website. Tours are held in groups of 30 people, and groups will be admitted every 30 minutes.

Museum lines and historic vehicles

That night, enthusiasts of public transport and historic vehicles will certainly not be bored – once again, parades of historic buses and trams will be organized.

The bus parade will start at 16:45 and will last until 17:45. It will set off from the Stalowa bus depot on the right bank of the Vistula, and will travel along a route that includes al. "Solidarności", al. Zieleniecka, Łazienkowski Bridge and Wybrzeże Kościuszkowskie. At the same time, between 17:00 and 18:00, a parade of historic trams will drive through the streets of Warsaw, starting from al. Zieleniecka and ending at the Praga bus depot, stopping at points such as Zawiszy Square and the Kercelak roundabout.

An unusual attraction will be a joint ride of both parades on two sections of the route - at around 5:00 p.m. on al. Zieleniecka and around 5:30 p.m. on Trasa WZ. Details about the parade can be found on the website the capital's Public Transport Enthusiasts Club.

There will also be free museum lines – information about them can be found at: nocmuzeow.um.warszawa.pl.

Public transport longer

On Museum Night, metro lines M1 and M2 will run until 2:30 a.m. Tram lines 2, 4, 9, 11, 13, 16 and 17 will run until approximately 2:30 a.m., with the last services from the city center scheduled for approximately 2:00 a.m.

Buses 116, 180, 190, 509, 517 and 527 will run until approximately 2:30 a.m., however the last departures from the city centre are scheduled for approximately 2:00 a.m.

Create your own guide

All information about the events of this year's Night of Museums can be found at: nocmuzeow.um.warszawa.pl. With the help of the search engine you can create a personalized sightseeing plan or download an interactive guide in Polish or English.

Current information about the event is available at Facebook.

Source: Warsaw City Hall