POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews Tour

I invite You to take a magical journey through 1000 years of the history of Polish Jews. The POLIN Museum – being also called the Museum of the History of Polish Jews– is located where the second biggest pre-war Jewish district in the world was placed before the outbreak of World War II. In 1940 that area was converted by the Germans into the biggest Ghetto in occupied Europe. Polin in Hebrew means “Poland” or “rest here”.  That word starts the legend about the arrival of the first Jews to Poland. Finnish architects   Rainer Mahlamaki and Ilmari Lahdelma designed a postmodern building that was opened in 2013 for the 70^th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. In October 2014 Core Exhibition was opened. In 2016 Polin Museum won the European Museum of the Year Award. During   POLIN Museum Tour You will learn about the social and religious life as well as the political diversity of Polish Jews.

The Core Exhibit consists of eight galleries:

1. Forest
2. First Encounters (960 – 1500)
3. Paradisus Judeaorum (1569 – 1648)
4. Shtetl – a Jewish Town (1648 -1772)
5. Encounters with Modernity (1772 – 1914)
6. On the Jewish Street (1918 – 1939)
7. Holocaust (1939 – 1945)
8. Postwar (1945 – to the present)

The core exhibition starts with traveling Jewish merchants who came into this area in the early Middle Ages goes through the centuries when Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth Kingdom was home to the biggest Jewish society in the world and ends at the present time telling visitors the story about the Jews who survived   World War II and how their life was during the communism era and how it is in Poland today.

OPENING HOURS:

Monday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Sunday

• From 10 AM to 6 PM
• Last entry to the temporary exhibition: 5.30 PM
• Last entry to the core exhibition: 5.00 PM
• On Thursday, admission to the core and temporary exhibitions is free of charge

Saturday

• From 10 AM to 8 PM
• Last entry to the temporary exhibition: 7.30 PM
• Last entry to the core exhibition: 7.00 PM

Tuesday

• The museum is closed to visitors

NEW ENTRANCE FEES FROM JANUARY 2023:

Core exhibition ‘1000 years of the history of Polish Jews’ + temporary
exhibition for both exhibitions + Legacy Gallery
• Regular ticket: 45 PLN
• Reduced ticket: 35 PLN
• Museum for 1 zloty: 1 PLN
for children aged 7-16 and for youth aged 16-26 who are still in the education
system. Upon presentation of a valid student card of Polish schools and universities: 1 PLN

• Group ticket (10+ people): 18 PLN 

on Thursday with free tickets and with group tickets

Every group above 9 PAX needs to loan tour guides from the Museum for 80 PLN per group

for children aged 7-16 and for youth aged 16-26 who are still within the education system. Upon presentation of a valid student card of Polish schools and universities: 1 PLN

THE MAXIMUM SIZE OF AN ORGANIZED GROUP IS 25 PEOPLE

YOU MAY COMBINE THIS TOUR WITH THE FOLLOWING OF MY TOURS:

• Treblinka Extermination Camp Tour
• Majdanek Concentration Camp Tour
• Auschwitz Birkenau Tour
• Tykocin Tour and Bialystok
• Jewish Lodz Tour
• Jewish Warsaw Tour

PLEASE ASK FOR THE PRICE IF YOU DECIDE TO COMBINE THIS TOUR WITH ANY OF MY TOURS

Duration 3 hours

Total amount 100 Euro plus entrance fees above

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