Muzeum Powstania Warszawskiego

A must experience museum. Ensure you have at least two hours if you plan on doing the headset tour. If you do choose the headset tour (inside the museum store), make sure to start back out in the cloak room.
Many reviews say this museum layout is confusing, but the map in the cloak room shows how you go through one wing of the museum on the first floor, then take the elevator (or stairs) to the top floor and continue.
I love Poland even more after visiting this museum, imagine fighting two superpowers simultaneously where you live. What a terrible history for them, but what an amazing tribute.

I really enjoyed this museum. Very interactive and filled with tons of artifacts from the war. There were a lot of kids on field trips and my bf doesn’t care for museums so we kind of went through it real fast, but I would love to go again in the future and actually absorb some of the info. I would say it was like facts and info was being thrown at you from all directions, but if you take the time and actually read you could learn a lot here.

I like the dynamic of this museum because the tours direction is not boring at all and what seems a small building is very well used in vertical terms.
Get an audio tour, its easier (because there is A LOT to read so audio can be faster and more interesting) and only 10zl.
The 3D movie, is only worth it because its 2zl. It lasts around 3−6min and shows, literally, the ruins of Warsaw after the war. A wake up call actually.
This museum is full of history, even if its only about a short period of time, concentrated about war and devastation… But for sure its very elucidate about Polish history and suffering and their perspective about it.
SUNDAY: FREE ENTRANCE!

Free admission on Sunday meant a nice outing for me and the host family I’m living with here in Warsaw. It also meant that the museum was very busy!
I have two complaints that keep the museum from being 5 stars. So I’ll say them now and get them out of the way. 1– the lighting is overall too dark. I realize that this is supposed to help create a feel for the seriousness of the subject matter… But when you consider that the English explanations are written in gray and not in white as the Polish ones… It’s really difficult to read. And also the floors are somewhat uneven in places so that’s hard to see too. 2– I think the organization of the exhibit is somewhat unorganized. When you finish with the first floor, there is an option to go up via elevator or go off to a large room on the right. Here there is a movie on display, a 3d video experience, a large airplane suspended from the ceiling, and some small displays. From this point if you didn’t go up the elevator you are completely out of order. Taking the stairs from this other room is not the way to go, because then you have skipped a lot of events in the timeline in fact I’d finished seeing the exhibit and felt totally confused by a seemingly segmented history, until the kids dragged me up to what I thought was a «reading room» to an entire third level of the exhibit.
Ok… Aside from these two complaints I did enjoy the museum. I think it is a fascinating piece of history that few people outside of Poland know anything but about. There is something about the tenacity of the people of this city that has kept it going throughout history, and despite being completely destroyed it is amazing. This museum highlights this tenacity and pride I think and it is important to visit and learn about this history. I think it would be a good idea to have more of the exhibit showcase the rebuilding of the city after this event and the destruction of Warsaw. It would be very interesting for foreign visitors I think. As it stands now, this is a very interesting place. You’ll learn a lot. And I highly recommend it.

Qué me pasó con este museo… no me quedó bien clara la historia, lo que pasó con la sublevación de los polacos. No encontré una cronología clara de los hechos. Sí admiro lo moderno que es el lugar, muy atractivo desde lo visual. Tiene un auditorio 2d y también una sala 3d a la que no pude ingresar por falta de tiempo, y hay efectos de sonido por todos lados. Son tres pisos de museo.
Por otro lado, un excelente recurso que usan es escribir la historia en papeles colgados en las columnas o paredes para que agarres, te los lleves y los leas, del estilo de aquellos tiempos, como si fueran gacetillas o noticias impresas clandestinamente. Incluso hay una sección en donde se ve en vivo a un señor imprimiendo estos boletines, a la manera antigua, como si ingresaras a una imprenta de aquellos tiempos. El problema muy importante para mí es que solo los encontré en polaco! Pero tampoco la persona aue vendía los tickets de entrada al museo hablaba inglés. En un museo. En un sitio turístico. No English.
Recomiendo ir, pero habiendo leído algo previamente sobre esta historia, para poder aprovecharlo mejor.

Went in for free on a Sunday and it was a very informative museum. They have little explanations in English also available which is helpful.
It’s a very interactive museum with so much information in there. They’ve clearly done their research.
I would just recommend not reading every single panel as I do think they’ve overdone it a bit on the detail. It’s also a little difficult to follow chronologically but you get a good overall picture at the end.

Don’t miss the Warsaw (Up)Rising Museum (Museum Powstania Warszawskiego) about a moment in time (1944) when the Polish people rose up to oppose their Nazi occupiers. Any uprisers who survived the Nazi, were most likely later perished under the iron fist of the Soviets. This is not a «fun» museum but not to be missed if you have any interest in history and human nature. Soviets would not even permit planes from the West dropping critical supplies to land. It only gets worse.
Museum is located 5 min walk west of the Hilton Hotel and accessible via bus (105, 109, 178) or tram too. About 1 mile walk from city center.
Tells the stories through pictures and narrative (Polish and English) of Polish opposing their evil occupiers.
On a personal note, I was pleased to see so many young people seeking to understand a dark moment in history.
In private conversation, the Polish feeling is that the West abandoned them (during the uprising and then afterwards) and allowed continued suffering after the Nazi occupiers were gone. The Soviets were worse in so many ways. This museum tells that story. Allow 2 hours minimum and probably closer to 3 hours.
There is also a wall outside of the 11,000 names confirmed killed during the uprising. A chilling reminder.
Tip I: Don’t miss the 6 mins movie (only 24 seats, so you can judge the wait in line), at small extra cost, of a flyover of Warsaw after 99% percent of the city was de-​populated at war’s end. Makes New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina look like a 5 Star Hotel. Only a slight exaggeration.
Tip II: Admission is free on Sunday.
Tip III: Ticket window doesn’t accept US Credit cards lacking security chip with PIN, so bring cash. This is common frustration in Warsaw. So bring cash from the ATM

I think this place should not be missed while visiting Warsaw. Museum covers an important part of not just Polish but world’s history during WWII. It’s very interactive, modern place that practically transforms you in time. It covers the topic in encompassing detail, very educational, will give you tremendous information about Poland’s struggles, courage and tragedy during those times. Most of items around museum are marked in both Polish and English. Multilingual audio guides are available for even more detailed description.

Free day on Sunday or Monday. I think Sunday but double check. Lots of cool WWII era small arms on display. From the corroded nature of some of the weapons, looks like a lot of this stuff is still being unearthed today as Warsaw transforms its skyline and infrastructure. You’ll even find a Mannlicher-​Carcano, the gun that fell JFK.

This place was intense. Very modern, you walk in to the first room and hear a thumping sound, which I believe represents the beating heart of the rebellion. You can put your ear up to holes in the wall and hear gunfire, screaming, and other sounds associated with the Warsaw Uprising.
There is a great 3D tour of post-​war Warsaw where there was literally not a bridge or building left standing. Another very cool exhibit was racks and racks of makeshift guns, and videos of the now elderly men who made them talking about their experiences.
The museum tries to shield children from seeing the more gruesome stuff by making you look into wells that contain video screens (if memory serves, the wells simulate the sewers people moved around in), but I would probably not bring kids here. I am 27 and got rattled by what I saw. Not sure kids would be able to sleep when they got home.
You can spend days in this museum. It is small but there is a lot to see. Nice café on the upper level when you want to take a break.
The only bad thing is buying tickets — very long line and only one cashier.