Muzeum Twierdzy Kostrzyn

Museum in Bastion Filip with a multimedia exhibition on the history of the fortress and town, and visits to the ruins of the Old Town, known as the Kostrzyn Pompeii.

Ask the museum for opening hoursAdmission 25 zł

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Limited operations. Until 18 October 2026 inclusive, Bastion Filip is open to individual visitors; from 19 October 2026 it is available only to organised groups. The Old Town area can be visited every day all year round from dawn to dusk.

About the museum

The town council of Kostrzyn nad Odrą adopted the resolution to establish the museum in 2000, and the institution began its activity in July 2008, initially in the building of a former barrack of the customs services. After the defensive walls, bastions and gates of the fortress were renovated, the museum took over the historic structures in administration, and its seat was moved to the former Border Guard building.

The permanent exhibition is housed in the casemates of Bastion Filip, built in 1568 as the south-eastern corner of the fortress. In the bastion a German museum devoted to the Küstrin fortress had already been set up in 1929. Today's exhibition is multimedia and interactive, and alongside original relics and finds it contains films, radio plays, models and replicas of weapons.

The museum's holdings also include the area of the Old Town, destroyed in 1945 and referred to as the Kostrzyn Pompeii: paving of streets and pavements, ruins of tenement houses, a castle and a church have survived, as well as the renovated 16th-century bastion fortifications. The area can be visited independently or with a guide.

Highlights

Multimedia exhibition in the casemates of the 16th-century Bastion Filip
Old Town with preserved street paving and ruins – “Kostrzyn Pompeii”
History of the fortress, the fighting of 1945 and the destruction of the town
Virtual walk through the bastion, films and radio plays
Guided tour of the Old Town in Polish, German and English

Permanent exhibition

Wystawa stała w kazamatach Bastionu Filip – Interactive multimedia exhibition on the history of the fortress and the town, the expansion of the fortifications, the Seven Years' War, the fighting for the town in 1945 and Kostrzyn as the former seat of the Hohenzollerns, with original relics, films, models and weapon replicas.

Founded: 2008
Operated by: Muzeum Twierdzy Kostrzyn (miejska instytucja kultury, Kostrzyn nad Odrą)

Admission & discounts

Adults	25 zł
Reduced	20 złstudents, pupils, pensioners and disability pensioners with entitlements granted by the Polish pension or disability authority, and holders of the Karta Dużej Rodziny (Large Family Card)
Children & teens	freefree up to age 6 · Children up to the age of 7 and museum employees enter free of charge.
Old Town with a guide, including admission to Bastion Filip – group of up to 6 people, in Polish (price per group)	210 złIn a foreign language: PLN 240 per group.
Old Town with a guide, including admission to Bastion Filip – group of more than 6 people, in Polish (adult)	35 złPerson entitled to a reduction: PLN 30; in a foreign language: PLN 40 per person.
Old Town with a guide on a Tuesday (free admission to the bastion) – group of up to 6 people, in Polish (price per group)	150 złIn a foreign language: PLN 210 per group.
Old Town with a guide on a Tuesday (free admission to the bastion) – group of more than 6 people, in Polish (adult)	25 złPerson entitled to a reduction: PLN 20; in a foreign language: PLN 35 per person.

Free admission: Tuesdays – admission to Bastion Filip is free of charge.

Independent visits to the Old Town without a guide are free of charge. Reduced fares are granted upon presentation of a school or student ID, a pensioner's or disability pensioner's ID, or the Karta Dużej Rodziny; a museum employee's ID grants free admission. Guides serve groups in Polish, German and English.