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Warsaw, Poland

POLIN Museum

A thousand years of Jewish life in Poland, told in a building split by a canyon.

POLIN Museum
Photo: Muzeum Historii Żydów Polskich / Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Not a Holocaust museum but a history of a civilisation: eight galleries walk through a millennium, including a reconstructed painted synagogue ceiling. The wave-shaped hall cuts the building in two.

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Opening hours and prices change regularly — always check the museum’s own site before you travel.

Do not miss

  • The reconstructed synagogue ceiling
  • The canyon-shaped main hall
  • Eight chronological galleries

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