Discover Myslowitz: Parks, Museums and Trails

Promenada Park is laid out as a walking and educational trail and stretches along the Czarna Przemsza. The historic Zamkowy Landscape Park combines old trees recognized as natural monuments with an underground air-raid shelter from the Second World War. Cultural destinations include the Muzeum Miasta Mysłowice and Cardinal August Hlond’s Mission Museum. Słupna has a large waterside recreation area with a bathing area and a summer sports center.

At Promenada Park, walking goes hand in hand with learning: the park also serves as an educational trail. Its features include an apiary, natural monuments and memorial sites. Along the Czarna Przemsza, wet meadows and ponds provide habitats for waterfowl and other wetland birds. If you want to combine observing nature with getting active during your stay, you’ll find specific topics to explore here, without reducing the park to just a green space.

Zamkowy Park offers a different landscape. It is a historic landscape park, and its old trees are recognized as natural monuments. The park is also home to an underground air-raid shelter from the Second World War. Myslowitz thus offers a range of park features: Promenada, with its educational trail and wetland habitats, and Zamkowy, with its historic landscape park and shelter.

The green cycling route runs through Mysłowice city center, along Promenada, and through Brzęczkowice and Kosztowy. If you prefer walking, you can follow the red hiking trail, named after Marian Kantor-Mirski, which runs via the Słupna bathing area to Mysłowice. The red cycling route No. 110 is about 1.5 km from Mysłowice railway station. These routes follow different paths, so they are separate points of reference for your planning.

Słupna offers another distinct focus: its large recreation area lies by the water and includes a bathing area. There is a summer sports center there. The Ośrodek Sportów Letnich Słupna also includes a complex of beach volleyball courts. When planning your trip, you can distinguish between walking and cycling trails, hiking, and waterside leisure and sports activities.

The Muzeum Miasta Mysłowice has collections covering archaeology, ethnography, 20th-century history, industry and sport. The museum also displays a reconstruction of the former border at Trójkąt Trzech Cesarzy. The site itself lies at the confluence of the Czarna Przemsza and Biała Przemsza rivers, where historical national borders met. A memorial obelisk commemorating the former division and the reunification of Europe was unveiled there in 2007.

Cardinal August Hlond’s Mission Museum preserves objects from Africa, Oceania and South America. These include traditional clothing, ritual masks, musical instruments and everyday objects. The museum is located in the basement rooms of the Matki Bożej Bolesnej church in Brzęczkowice. Another historical point of interest is the Przewiązka: it connected the buildings of the former emigration station with platform 1 at Mysłowice railway station.

A visit to the Centralne Muzeum Pożarnictwa requires some advance planning: individual visitors and organized groups who would like a guided tour should submit a booking at least three days before their visit. Bear this deadline in mind if you include a museum visit in your travel plans.

If you’re interested in nature and getting active, Promenada, the parks and the trails described here are useful starting points for your research. If you prefer cultural topics, explore the collections, border history and the Mission Museum. Słupna is another option, with its focus on waterside recreation. Compare other destination pages: Rybnik, Bytom, Mikołów, Będzin, Zawiercie, Siemianowice and Gliwice.

What can you see at the Muzeum Miasta Mysłowice?

The collections cover archaeology, ethnography, 20th-century history, industry and sport. The museum also displays a reconstruction of the former border at Trójkąt Trzech Cesarzy.

How far in advance do you need to book a guided tour at the fire service museum?

Individual visitors and organized groups who would like a guided tour should submit their booking at least three days before their visit.

Where do the Czarna Przemsza and Biała Przemsza rivers meet?

At Trójkąt Trzech Cesarzy. Historical national borders met there; in 2007, a memorial obelisk commemorating the former division and the reunification of Europe was unveiled.

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