Gry i Komputery Minionej Ery
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Ready-made walk · Wrocław

Wrocław: Culture Rebuilt

9 stops · ~4 hr 55 min · 7.5 km

Culture

Explore institutions, artists, writers, scientists and playful public culture that illuminate Wrocław’s changing identity. The route spans the postwar arts scene, major exhibition architecture, literary memory and the city’s distinctive dwarves.

The stops, in walking order

  1. Gry i Komputery Minionej Ery
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    Stop 1: Gry i Komputery Minionej Ery

    ~1 hr here

    Gry i Komputery Minionej Ery is a Wrocław museum devoted to the story of games, consoles, computers, and retro computing.

  2. Krasnale Filharmonii Wrocławskiej
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    Stop 2: Krasnale Filharmonii Wrocławskiej

    ~3 min here

    These small figures are Krasnale Filharmonii Wrocławskiej, the Wrocław Philharmonic Dwarfs.

  3. Muzeum Pana Tadeusza
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    Stop 3: Muzeum Pana Tadeusza

    ~1 hr here

    Muzeum Pana Tadeusza occupies the townhouse called Pod Złotym Słońcem, at Rynek 6.

  4. Muzeum Architektury
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    Stop 4: Muzeum Architektury

    ~1 hr here

    Muzeum Architektury is Poland’s only museum devoted to architecture, housed in a fifteenth-century former Bernardine religious complex.

  5. Juliusz Słowacki
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    Stop 5: Juliusz Słowacki

    ~3 min here

    The name here is Juliusz Słowacki, and this place dates from 1984.

  6. plac Polski
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    Stop 6: plac Polski

    ~3 min here

    Plac Polski takes the form of a short street beside a planted square, where the Old Town Promenade reaches Wrocław’s New Town district.

  7. Zakład Narodowy imienia Ossolińskich
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    Stop 7: Zakład Narodowy imienia Ossolińskich

    ~3 min here

    The remarkable thing about the Ossolineum is that only about a third of its pre-war treasures reached Wrocław.

  8. Karol Linneusz
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    Stop 8: Karol Linneusz

    ~3 min here

    Here, among the Botanical Garden’s plant-systematics collection, the bust of Karol Linneusz turns a botanist into a landmark.

  9. Jan Mikulicz Radecki
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    Stop 9: Jan Mikulicz Radecki

    ~3 min here

    The brick stele beside the entrance to the university’s digestive and general surgery clinic is the memorial to Jan Mikulicz-Radecki.

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