In this photo you can see the main building of the Józef Piłsudski Museum in Sulejówek on a sunny day. The building is modern and surrounded with a forest. The main entrance can be reached through a wide pebbled alley.

VISITING RULES

You are encouraged to read our price list, booking and sale regulations, and visiting regulations before you buy your tickets.

 

What exactly can you visit in the Józef Piłsudski Museum in Sulejówek and how can you do it?

Within the 4 hectares of the complex museum’s area there are a couple of buildings out of which the following ones are open for visitors: the Museum’s main building with its permanent exhibition and temporary exhibitions, Milusin mansion with its historical garden, Lilac Villa – place where local communities meet and where temporary exhibitions are organized.  

Permanent exhibition „For the Republic of Poland. Józef Piłsudski 1867 – 1935”
This exhibition is at the root of our perception of the Marshal’s life and ideas. The permanent exhibition is housed by two storeys (-3 and -2) of our modern main building and includes 6 galleries encompassing the area of 2100 m2.
It takes about 2 hours to visit the exhibition, but the exhibits and contents leave room for a much longer visit. The last visitors on a given day can enter the permanent exhibition 90 minutes before the closing hour. While planning your visit in our Museum, you are requested to take into account the time needed to visit the exhibition. A visitor who does not manage to visit the entire exhibition cannot make a complaint or claim reimbursement of their ticket’s cost.

Milusion mansion and its historical garden  

The Milusin mansion, that is the family house of Józef and Aleksandra Piłsudski, was built in 1923. Having resigned from the public office, the Marshal moved here with his wife and daughters. The mansion is surrounded with a historical garden with a vegetable garden, orchard and bee yard looking like back in the Marshal’s times.  

The Milusin mansion and its historical garden are a precious cultural heritage monument which should be taken care of by everybody, including our visitors. Therefore, you can enter the mansion and the garden only accompanied by a certified guide within determined hours. Your visit inside of the mansion is supposed to take about 30 minutes, while a walk in the garden – from 10 to 60 minutes depending on the type of visiting, season of the year and weather conditions.

 

Visiting rules

  • The entrance to the main building is for free and does not require any tickets. To visit the permanent exhibition and Milusin mansion with its historical garden you have to buy a ticket.
  • If you buy a ticket for more than one visit or event offered by the Museum to be held on the same day, you are requested to consider the start hours and duration of your visit/event so as to avoid any collision of dates and times. If you plan your visit in a way favoring a collision of dates or hours, you will not be entitled to make a complaint or seek reimbursement of your ticket’s cost.
  • Individual visiting means visiting alone or in a group of up to 9 people.
  • Collective visiting means visiting in a group of more than 10 people.
  • Do not take large bags or luggage to the Museum. You can carry only a small handbag/backpack into the permanent exhibition or to the Milusin mansion. If you come with a larger backpack, bag or suitcase, you will be told to leave it in a deposit locker in the main building’s cloakroom.
  • For safety and comfort reasons you are recommended wearing flats. There are ventilation grates in the permanent exhibition’s floor and in the Milusin mansion there are historical floors which must be protected. Therefore visitors in stilettos shall not be let in to the mansion.
  • The Milusin mansion can be reached only via the historical garden where, due to the historical character of the place, there are no hardened pedestrian alleys. Hence, visitors should be aware that there can be some mud, snow, dust on their surfaces or they can be uneven.
  • You can visit the permanent exhibition on your own, with an audioguide or with a tour guide (provided that you have bought such a service).
  • To visit the permanent exhibition, you have to enter it at the latest than 90 minutes before its closing hours.
  • You can enter the Milusin mansion only if you are accompanied by a tour guide and only within determined hours. You are recommended to buy your tickets online or book them by e-mail.
  • The permanent exhibition and the Milusin mansion can be visited individually and in organized groups. A group can include no more than 15 people. Larger groups will be divided into sub-groups and let in in the respective time intervals.
  • You cannot enter the historical garden outside of scheduled hours – that is „for a little while” e.g. to make a photo.
  • In the historical garden there is no lighting which would enable visiting the mansion and its garden after dark.
  • An entrance ticket to the mansion and a combined ticket entitle you to enter the Milusion mansion only once (it is not possible to leave the mansion and re-enter it under the same ticket).
  • There are no toilets in the Milusin mansion and in the historical garden. Therefore, before visiting them use one of the toilets in the main building.
  • For conservation reasons, due to historical floors in the mansion, the Museum can request you to wear shoe covers inside.
  • It is forbidden to touch exhibits and elements of the mansion’s exhibition. You can take photos, but only for your personal use.
  • Due to its historical architecture, narrow doors, tight spaces and high doorway sills, the mansion is not adapted to the needs of people in wheelchairs and with mobility disabilities. People in wheelchairs can move only around the part of the exhibition located in the lobby and living room and take a look at the studio and dining room while staying in the living room.
  • In the Milusin mansion and in the historical garden there are no places to sit down and take a rest.
  • Should weather conditions be bad or pose a threat to visitors and/or exhibition in the mansion the Museum reserves the right to cancel tours and close the Milusin mansion and its historical garden to visitors.
  • Due to its historical floors you cannot enter the Milusin mansion with a pram. Young children (who haven’t learnt to walk yet) must be carried by their guardians (including in carrycots or baby slings).
  • You are invited to the Museum without your pet (except for assistance dogs/guide dogs). The historical area requires special protection as it has to be kept for further generations.

 

How can you visit our Museum?

On your own – the permanent exhibition only.

With an audioguide – the permanent exhibition only.

  • Audioguides are available in Polish, English, German, Russian and with an audiodescription in the Polish Sign Language. There is also a special family track available.
  • You will receive an audioguide for free once you present your ticket for the exhibition and if there are available audioguides.
  • To borrow an audioguide you should fill out a special form and provide necessary data.
  • The Museum does not guarantee availability of equipment.

With a tour guide – permanent exhibition, Milusin mansion and historical garden.

  • Individual visitors can benefit from our permanent visiting offer with a tour guide on a „join a group” basis. Visits can take place on determined days and according to a fixed schedule. The number of places is limited.
  • Individuals or groups can also buy the „order a guide” service.
  • Dates of visits and availability of tickets can be checked online.
  • The „dedicated guide” service can be booked:

          – by sending an e-mail to the Visitor Service Office or calling them at 22 77 88 000,

          – directly from tour guides cooperating with the Museum. The list of tour guides can be found on our website.

Tour guides

Visitors can be guided around the permanent exhibition and the museum complex exclusively by those guides who completed the guide training course organized by the Józef Piłsudski Museum in Sulejówek, obtained their diploma and hold a badge issued by the Museum. Any individual who guides a group of visitors without a badge issued by the Museum shall be told to leave the Museum.

Tour guide equipment

A tour guide who guides visitors in the Museum must use special tourguide equipment. Organized tours accompanied with a tour guide have to pre-book equipment available in the Museum or use their own equipment.  The fee to be paid for tour guide equipment for a third party tour guide amounts to PLN 70/group. You are requested to book it in advance.

Limits for numbers of people/group

A group of visitors guided by a tour guide cannot include more than 15 people. Groups composed of more people shall be divided into smaller groups and let in within time intervals (to the permanent exhibition – every 15 minutes, to the Milusin mansion – every 30 days provided that the schedule allows for it). Please remember about those limits if you book a tour guide.

On the visit day:

  • It is recommendable to come to the Museum at least 15 minutes before the scheduled visit time (that time will be used for presenting the group at the information point, visiting he cloakroom, collecting necessary equipment and splitting the group if needed);
  • If you arrive late for a visit guided by a tour guide booked via the Museum, the duration of your visit will be reduced by the time of your delay or cancelled if the delay is too long (read more in the booking and sale regulations).
  • Please check if there are parking places available for you and learn how the traffic around the Museum is organized.

 

 

Information for visitors: [email protected], tel. (22) 77 88 000; (Monday-Friday, 9.00 – 17.00)

To book educational activities: [email protected], tel. (22) 77 88 000; (Monday-Friday, 9.00 – 17.00)

To book a group and tour guide: [email protected], tel. (22) 77 88 000; (Monday-Friday, 9.00 – 17.00)