Neon Museum

Cute museum that runs you through the history of Neon signs in Poland. Lots of opportunities to take nice photos as well would recommend dropping by here if you are around Praga!

Loved this museum - a quirky place with fascinating history. A highlight of our time in Warsaw. The entrance was a bit confusing due to building works in the area. Definitely recommend a visit here.

Very nice museum for design fascinated audience, however it is small I found it very nice and informative.

It’s a small museum, but if you’re into neon signs, it’s a must! In one large room are dozens of Soviet era neon signs that are beautiful! Although professional cameras aren’t allowed, photos taken with a phone are encouraged.

I stopped in for 45 minutes on a Monday afternoon. I paid the 16 PLN ticket, read the history, and saw every sign. There’s a theater that plays a video about the signs in Polish.

Amazing place. They preserve an important piece of the European (not just Polish!) cultural and technical heritage. The visitors can marvel the installed neon lights (not all of them are working) and learn about their background, as well as get an overview about the history of the neon advertising.
It is a must once you are is Warsaw.

Great little museum. There is a 52min video about the history of Neon in Warsaw included (it’s in English and Polish). Lots of recovered and restored vintage signs, and each has a history plaque explaining its story. Good fun visit.

The museum is well worth the trip from the center for anyone who loves neon signs and the retro atmosphere. The space isn't huge, but it's packed with neons, most of them working, so you can easily spend 45-60 minutes adoring them. And proceeds go toward maintaining and saving new ones, so it's for a good cause! Was pleasantly surprised by the large number of Hungarian signs as well, good to know they are displayed until we finally get a similar museum going in Budapest.

This Museum is probably the most hard to find place ever. It’s located in Soho by Yareal building complex area, or known as Soho Art Center also. But it’s quite secluded and gmaps somehow not really helpful. But, once you find the entrance you’ll get it. It’s small but unique museum, and when you visit there in winter it’ll gives you warmth because many neon lights there. Thank me later :)

Amazing museum, very interesting and a nice way to spend a Sunday morning.

Great experience overall. Really interesting and insightful about the history of Poland as a whole through these beautiful signs. Very interesting and very cheap.
Would highly recommend for any trip to Warsaw

Wonderful and compact museum. Made light on a world not known to me. You can spend 5 minutes like hours there, it depends on you. There are mainly 3 alleys plus the cinema.

I expected this to be a small place, only to take great pictures. It's great for photos but apart from that it is also very interesting and tells you a lot about the history of Warsaw and how the city developed. 10/10, great!

This museum offers a unique look into Warsaw’s communist history. I found the story of the museum’s creation just as interesting as the neons themselves. The explanatory video they roll is informative, as are the various signs and descriptions.

I actually found this museum quite moving. These pieces are not just pretty signs but relics of an important history that is not so far in the distance. The degree to which the state promised a certain type of enlightened existence, represented by these neons in many respects, is an incredible story. The fact that reality failed to live up to that promise, and then that reality frayed alongside the signs themselves, is a poignant story. Then to be discarded or neglected like that history they represented, is both tragic yet understandable. This museum has done a great service - these are not merely decorative objects but symbols of a kind of fallen “utopia” - still shining brightly though the time itself marches on. Really transporting to a period many of us are old enough to remember, though that memory fades with each passing day.

A unique museum is located in the Praga district of Warsaw. There are quite a lot of construction works around the museum, but there are enough signs leading to the entrance. Inside the museum, you can see about 200 neon signs in different sizes, shapes, and colors, along with information about them. Not all of them were working, and it can be quite loud, but it is still worth a visit

A very unique museum that is well worth the visit to see some unqiue neon signs. It was quite hard to find the entrance due to all the constuction work but there are signs pointing you to the museum. There is also a lot of history about the importance of neon signs in Warsaw which was very interesting to read. I definitely recommend going here!

Nice museum with neon signs from the old days, when communism ruled in Poland. Besides the neon signs themselves, there are videos and articles about the history of neon worldwide and in Poland in particular. The owners (husband and wife) have a most inspiring story about how they met eachother and how they became fascinated by the neon signs then still in use in Warsaw. After the fall of communism in Poland, people wanted to get rid of the memories the old -in itself beautiful- neon signs evoked and they were thrown away. As a graphical designer, the soon to be owner of the museum was shocked and started to collect the old signs until he had enough to fill a museum.

Following his advice, we had a great (and very affordable) lunch in the nearby restaurant Warszawa Wschodnia (Warsaw East) owned by the Magda Gessler (think the Polish Gordon Ramsey, but with the much better looks of Dolly Parton) family and then went on a walk through the Praga district of Warsaw. It is a sometimes a rough area with buildings literally falling apart (but with people still living there).
This is the other part of Warsaw, on the other bank of the river. Here the Russians kicked out the Nazis in WW2. The Russians did not destroy anything, but they did not do any maintenance either. Therefore you can now see pre-WW2 buildings in the Praga district, whereas the buildings in the part of Warsaw the was occupied by the Nazis until the end of the war, were completely destroyed as a revenge for the Warsaw Uprising. That destroyed part of the city has been completely rebuilt and is now the beautiful part of Warsaw with its cozy Old Town Center.
But the sometimes grim looking Praga district is well worth a visit! Look at the old buildings as Warsaw was before the war, now often decorated with new paintings on the walls with bullet holes still in them. Artistic people are now moving into the area, slowly bringing back its former luster and transforming it into one of the most vibrant neighborhoods in the world.

NEON MUSEUM is the peaceful place of the Poland.I had been stayed for three days.I had visited there. At afternoon, there is no much fun and entertaining but at night it is so much lighting an wonderful Views in it. At the corner, we can enjoy so much.

Perhaps one of the coolest and most unique museums I have ever visited...very hip as well! The presentation and curation very much pulls you into the neon glow and the juxtaposition of both it as a projection of communist power and a sublime art form. Fascinating and highly recommended!

Really cool museum! It's quite small but has a lot of really interesting signs. The information was very good and I've learned a lot. I really enjoyed my visit.