Museum of Praga

The Museum of Warsaw-Praga is the first and only museum devoted entirely to the right bank of the Vistula, traditionally the poorer, working-class and multicultural side of the city. It occupies four neighbouring listed tenements on Ulica Targowa, the oldest parts of which date back to the 18th century. In the cellar of one building a painted Jewish prayer room was uncovered and preserved, today one of the rarest surviving traces of everyday Jewish life in pre-war Warsaw. The displays tell the story of Praga from a market for cart drivers through industrialisation to the busy post-war streets shaped by smugglers, musicians and blacksmiths. Visitors move through courtyards, workshops and tiny shrines, exploring a district long overlooked by guidebooks.