Mysłowice: Museums, Parks and Trails

• The Centralne Muzeum Pożarnictwa has more than 4,000 exhibits on fire service history.
• The Muzeum Miasta Mysłowice presents exhibitions on five subject areas, including archaeology and industry.
• The Promenada runs along the Czarna Przemsza and includes wet meadows and ponds.
• Kayaks and pedal boats can be rented and used in Słupna Park.
• A cycling tour starts at Mysłowice railway station; a red hiking trail leads to Mysłowice.

The Centralne Muzeum Pożarnictwa focuses on the history of the fire service. Its more than 4,000 exhibits include historic firefighting equipment, fire engines, horse-drawn and hand-operated pumps, as well as firefighters’ uniforms and equipment. The collection therefore ranges from vehicles and firefighting gear to the items firefighters wore on the job.

The Muzeum Miasta Mysłowice offers a broader perspective on the city and its themes. Its exhibitions cover archaeology, ethnography, 20th-century history, industry and sport. Anyone interested in the development of society, the economy or sport will find different points of entry here than at the fire service museum. Together, the two museums offer distinct perspectives for a cultural stay in Mysłowice.

The Promenada stretches along the Czarna Przemsza. Its wet meadows and ponds provide a habitat for waterbirds, including coots, mallards and moorhens. This gives the park a natural character that sets it apart from the city’s historic and museum-related attractions. The Przewiązka, a listed structure dating from 1907, is also located in Promenada Park. It served as a passageway between an emigrant station and the railway station.

Zamkowy Park also combines nature and history, but in a different way: it is a historic landscaped park with protected trees designated as natural monuments and remnants of a former manor complex. If you want to compare parks with traces of history, Promenada and Zamkowy Park offer different points of interest: wet meadows, ponds and the Przewiązka in one, natural monuments and remnants of the manor complex in the other.

You can rent and use kayaks and pedal boats in Słupna Park. The park is also the starting point of a cycling route that begins at the Centralne Muzeum Pożarnictwa. This means you can combine a stay focused on cycling routes with a visit to the fire service museum as a separate activity; no single route connecting the places described is implied.

Another option for cyclists is the “Rowerowe szlaki Mysłowic (Koleją i Rowerem)” tour. It starts at Mysłowice railway station, where Koleje Śląskie trains on the S31 line between Katowice and Oświęcim stop. The red “Mariana Kantora-Mirskiego” hiking trail is another way to explore the surrounding area along a named route: it runs from Janina Barbara via Giszowiec, Dolina Murckowska, Wesoła Fala in Wesoła, Morgi and Szyb Stanisława, as well as the “Słupna” outdoor swimming pool, to Mysłowice. The listed stops along the route provide a concrete basis for deciding whether you would prefer to consider a cycling tour or a hiking route.

The Muzeum Miasta Mysłowice organizes tours and museum classes for preschool groups. One class explores the Trójkąt Trzech Cesarzy as a multifaceted site and an international hub for cross-border traffic at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. This is a specific museum education focus to consider when planning a stay with a preschool group. It complements the museum’s exhibitions, which cover archaeology, ethnography and 20th-century history, among other subjects.

Which boats can you use in Słupna Park?

Kayaks and pedal boats can be rented and used in Słupna Park.

What does the Muzeum Miasta Mysłowice show?

The exhibitions cover archaeology, ethnography, 20th-century history, industry and sport.

Where does the “Rowerowe szlaki Mysłowic” cycling tour start?

It starts at Mysłowice railway station, where Koleje Śląskie trains on the S31 line between Katowice and Oświęcim stop.

See the main travel overview: Myslowitz.