Polish Army Museum: Hours, Tickets and Free Thursdays at the Citadel

One of the largest museum projects in Poland settled into its new home in 2023. The Polish Army Museum opened at the Warsaw Citadel on 13 August 2023, with an inaugural exhibition - 1000 Years of Polish Military Glory - showing some 3,000 of its most valuable artifacts across 2,700 square meters.

The collection

The museum holds over 300,000 artifacts: armour, edged weapons and firearms from across a millennium, uniforms and riding equipment, banners and orders, battle paintings, and heavy hardware from cannons to tanks, armoured vehicles, aircraft and helicopters. Permanent exhibition modules will present the collection by epoch, from the 10th century to the 20th, alongside halls for Oriental arms and temporary exhibitions.

Hours and tickets

According to the museum, it is open Tuesday to Sunday 10:00-18:00 (last admission 17:20) and closed on Mondays. Tickets cost 40 PLN normal and 30 PLN concession, and Thursdays are free.

Branches

The museum also runs the Katyn Museum elsewhere on the Citadel grounds, the Museum of Armoured Warfare in Poznan, and the Polish Military Technology Museum at Fort IX Czerniakow, 13 Powsinska Street in Mokotow.

Getting there

The Citadel sits in north Warsaw by the Gdanski Bridge; the museum entrance is at ul. Gwardii 4. Combine it with a walk through the fortress grounds, which hold several military memorials.