Things to see and do Katowice

The museum occupies large, transparent glass buildings as well as historic ^{eighteenth-century} edifices and is developed in the underground chambers of the former mine. The Polish art gallery features a collection of paintings by Polish and Silesian masters including Olga Boznańska and Józef Mehoffer. Portraits, landscapes and depictions of everyday life give way to impressionist and surrealist paintings in the post-1945 section.)

This very romantic and beautiful skansen presents in an idyllic setting the rural life in Upper Silesia through its architecture, before the region became an industrial desert that continues to pollute its soil and air. On 20 hectares of idyllic countryside, some 70 buildings from the late 18th to the early 20th century have been brought together, including traditional thatched houses, granaries, historic wooden churches, calvaries and windmills. There is even an old Karczma (inn) for eating and drinking beer.

This cemetery survived World War II and was not too badly damaged by the Nazis. It dates from the 19th century and is rather well maintained, which is another rarity in Poland since the war. It contains about 1,500 graves. There is also a Holocaust memorial, in remembrance of the large Jewish community in Katowice that disappeared in its entirety in April 1941, with all the Jews living there - over 8,300 - being deported.