Muzeum Regionalne w Brzezinach
Municipal museum in the neo-Gothic Kleiber palace, with exhibitions on archaeology, Brzeziny's tailoring tradition, bourgeois interiors and folk culture.
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About the museum
The Regional Museum in Brzeziny was founded in 1972 on the initiative of members of the Friends of the Brzeziny Land Society, who had been collecting historical memorabilia and documents since 1965. Its first seat was a small premises in a former kindergarten at today's ul. Piłsudskiego 49. The first director was the ethnographer Elżbieta Putyńska.
In 1981 the museum moved to the neo-Gothic palace on the same plot, regarded as the most interesting non-sacred monument in the town. The palace stands on the site of an old wooden manor house of the Buyno family, where the writer Maria Buyno-Arctowa was born. In 1903 the district architect Karol Kleiber remodelled the building into a hunting palace of red brick, with turrets crowned by battlements. Between the wars it housed a health insurance office, and later the building served, among other things, as tenant flats. The town bought it in 1971 in very poor condition.
The interiors were renovated in 2011 and 2020, followed by the façade, and a museum garden was laid out. The collections comprise around 5,200 historical and ethnographic objects. The permanent exhibitions include archaeological finds from the “lost town”, an exhibition on the multicultural town of tailors, a bourgeois parlour and a folk room. The museum also runs school lessons and workshops, temporary exhibitions and the café “U Zbyszka” on the grounds.
Highlights
- Archaeological exhibition “The Lost Town”
- Exhibition “The Multicultural Town of Tailors” with a collection of irons and sewing machines
- Bourgeois parlour from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries
- Folk room from the early 20th century
- Neo-Gothic Kleiber palace with garden
Permanent exhibitions
- Archeologia – Zaginione miasto – Finds from excavations in Brzeziny and the surrounding area, including a hoard of medieval silver coins and gravestone slabs.
- Wielokulturowe miasto krawców – Exhibition on the history of tailoring in Brzeziny, with a collection of irons and sewing machines and a reconstructed tailor's workshop from the early 20th century.
- Salonik mieszczański i izba ludowa – Bourgeois interiors from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries and a folk room showing regional culture: costumes, craft and agricultural tools, and naive painting.
- Founded
- 1972
- Operated by
- Miasto Brzeziny
- Director
- Paweł Zybała
Admission & discounts
| Adults | 10 zł |
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| Reduced | 7 zł |
| Groups | 7 zł per personStandard group ticket PLN 7, reduced group ticket PLN 5. |
| Reduced group ticket | 5 zł |
The ticket price includes the guide service.
Accessibility
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Kids & families
Great for kids & families
- Family tours & workshops
The museum offers workshops and museum lessons for kindergartens and schools, including “Pierwsze kroki w muzeum” (First Steps in the Museum), classes on Brzeziny's folk paper cutting (wycinanka) and costume, and pre-Christmas workshops in which gingerbread is baked in a bread oven.
Getting there & parking
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Amenities & dining
- Café
On the museum grounds is the café “U Zbyszka” (from 1 May 2026; Monday–Friday 15:00–20:00, Saturday and Sunday 11:00–20:00), which has a reading corner.
Events & venue rental
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Plan your visit
| Guided tours | yes |
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| School programs | yes |
| Good to know | Tours take place with a guide, whose service is included in the ticket price. For schools the museum has prepared museum lessons (among others on the January Uprising, the Jewish shtetl of Brzeziny, the Second World War and the town's tailoring traditions) and workshops. |
