Warsaw Uprising Museum: Tour Options and How Much Time to Plan
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If you want museum entry, an audio guide and a lift to the door, take the three-hour Warsaw Uprising Museum tour with pickup. It costs €77.28 per person. If you mainly want the story and the places, the World War II walking tour is the most reviewed of the three.
The three options
| Option | Length | Museum entry | Price per person |
|---|---|---|---|
| Warsaw Uprising 1944 Museum with Pickup | 3 hours | Entry ticket and audio guide in the price | €77.28 |
| Warsaw Uprising and WWII Old Town Walking Tour with Museum | 2 or 3 hours, private | Tickets only in the 3-hour option | €87.21 |
| World War 2 in Warsaw walking tour | 2.5 hours | Not part of the walk | €20.52 |
Inside the museum
The listing for the pickup tour describes multimedia exhibits, more than 1,000 exhibits including weapons and clothing of the insurgents, a replica of the Liberator aircraft, a 1944 film and a five-minute 3D flight simulation over the ruined city. It names pregnant women as not suitable. Inside you go round with the audio guide (Spanish, English, French, German, Italian or Russian); the listing names a host and a driver/coordinator, and one reviewer says the guide waited outside while the group toured the museum on its own. One reviewer wished for more time inside, which is worth knowing because three hours include the transfer. According to the museum it opens on Monday and from Wednesday to Friday from 8 am to 6 pm, at weekends from 10 am to 6 pm, and is closed on Tuesdays; tickets are sold until 30 minutes before closing, a normal ticket costs 35 PLN, and entry is free on Thursdays (1944.pl).
The private Old Town walk
The private tour with optional museum visit starts at Sigismund’s Column on Castle Square and follows the traces of the underground state through the Old Town. The 3-hour option adds skip-the-line museum tickets, an audio guide and one-way public transport tickets, because the museum lies outside the Old Town. Pickup is offered only for hotels within 1.5 km of the meeting point. Inside the museum you are on your own with the audio guide; the listing states that the guide stays outside. It has 19 reviews at 4.5 stars.
The World War II walk
The walk by Orange Umbrella Tours covers the whole period from 1939 to 1945, including the Ghetto Uprising and the 1944 Rising, with photographs and family stories from guides born in Warsaw. It starts at Sigismund’s Column, runs for about 20 people, is wheelchair accessible according to the listing and has 511 reviews at 4.8 stars. The listing notes that some people in the group may join on a pay-what-you-wish basis, while your booking already covers the guide.
Which one
Pick the pickup tour for the museum itself with minimal planning. Pick the private walk for a personal guide and your own language; the listing offers English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Russian and Spanish. Pick the walk if you want context and have time for the museum on your own. The hop-on hop-off bus also lists a Warsaw Rising Museum stop on its blue route, see hop-on hop-off or bike. For the ghetto side of the story, read POLIN Museum and Jewish Warsaw, and for more history tours see WWII and communism tours.
