Explore Wrocław
Opening hours, prices and tickets for places worth your time.
The Museum of the University of Wrocław occupies historic rooms of the university's 18th-century Baroque main building beside the Oder. The route includes the Aula Leopoldina of 1728–1732, a ceremonial hall with illusionist paintings by Johann Christoph Handke, the Oratorium Marianum music hall and the Mathematical Tower, a former observatory with a viewing terrace.
Official site
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The Racławice Panorama is a cyclorama painting 15 m high and 114 m long, made in Lviv in 1893–1894 by Jan Styka and Wojciech Kossak for the centenary of the 1794 Battle of Racławice. Since 1985 it has hung in a round rotunda in Wrocław, seen from a central platform in 30-minute sessions with recorded commentary.
Official site
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The National Museum in Wrocław occupies a late Neo-Renaissance building of 1883–1886 by Karl Friedrich Endell, built for the administration of the Province of Silesia beside the Oder. Its permanent galleries show Silesian stone sculpture and art from the 12th to the 19th century, Polish art of the 17th–19th centuries and European art of the 15th–20th centuries.
Official site
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