Things to see and do Zielona Góra

The museum was founded in 1922 on the initiative of the Society for the Preservation of the Regional Tradition of the City of Zielona Góra. Since then, its aim has been to present the past and the specificity of the city. Today, north of the city center, this museum has a collection of contemporary works, and presents especially the wine history of the region. Finally, it houses the most important exhibition of works by the famous contemporary artist Marian Kruczek (1927-1983).

Built in the ^17th century, it was rebuilt several times, following the town fires of the ^16th and ^17th centuries, signs of a tumultuous era: it burned in 1582, 1627 and 1651, and after an umpteenth reconstruction in 1590, it took the form of a two-storey brick building. In the first half of the ^17th century, it was used as a winery, and from 1741, for seven years, as an evangelical temple. Traditionally, it was painted green, a color it has retained for 180 years. Its 54 m tower overlooks the Rynek.

Located 8 km south of Zielona Góra, on an area of 13 ha, this skansen presents several traditional houses from Wielkopolska and Lower Silesia. It has the particularity of being associated with a national museum and a university research branch. Today, almost eighty historical buildings and more than ten thousand artifacts are available for visitors to see in permanent exhibitions and in the company's premises. During the year, folklore events are regularly held here.

Behind the Rynek to the east, this church from the second half of the 14th century is the oldest monument in the city. It has been rebuilt several times after fires that ravaged it, the last time in the 18th century. It is in baroque style and we can only deplore that its tower, 90 m high, collapsed in 1776, hence the incongruous appearance of its current bell tower, which seems to be stuck here unexpectedly (which is the case). Its beautiful carved wooden entrance door is perhaps the only interest of the whole.

This church, located north of the Rynek, dates from the first half of the 18th century. Formerly Protestant, it is now Catholic. It is richly decorated with many baroque details. It is a beautiful historic church with exposed beams on the outside and two floors of balconies on the inside. In 1966, on November 5 and 6, the future Pope John Paul II, then archbishop, celebrated mass here, a fact commemorated by the church's parishioners.