Museums
a museum of copper mining in the Bolesław shaft, with a reconstructed gallery and mining machinery
Museums
an open-air exhibition by the station with a historic train and 3D figures about the first post-war settlers
Churches and monasteries
a Gothic filial church from the end of the 14th century, with a Renaissance altar and a 17th-century pulpit
Culture
a branch of the municipal library on Jastrzębia Street, part of the network alongside the main headquarters on Odrodzenia Street
Sport and recreation
a seasonal RCS ice rink in Lubin with a speed track and a hire point with 500 pairs of skates
a municipal public library branch on Żurawia Street, part of the network of libraries in Lubin
Lubin attractions: a free zoo, museums, pools, a climbing wall and play centres. See where to go with children and where to go in the rain.
Lubin lies in the Copper Basin and is not a town of one great monument. Instead, on a few streets and in a few parks you find places that work for an everyday plan: a zoo without a ticket, a museum with four branches, pools, bowling alleys, play centres and a climbing wall in a former water tower. This list helps you choose something for a few hours, without a long trip.
Start with the zoo and the Historical Museum. The zoo is free all year round and covers 14.47 hectares of the former Wrocław Park, while the museum is spread over four places in town. Together they make a full day, and the zoo itself needs no ticket.
The zoo has themed educational trails about various groups of animals, from the wild fauna of Poland to animals known only from reconstructions. The garden was created in 2014 and is the third zoo in Lower Silesia. Check the opening hours, which depend on the season.
The Historical Museum has no single building. Its main seat is the Town Hall on the Market Square, where exhibitions tell about everyday life in the twentieth century and about the Lubin Crime of August 1982. The second branch is the Forest Park, the third an area by the railway station, and the fourth is the Pałacyk Gallery, opened in 2023 on the ground floor of a villa from the turn of the 20th century. Near Castle Hill stands the castle chapel, the only surviving fragment of the medieval castle, with a tympanum dated 1349. Today it houses the Castle Gallery.
Choose the Lubin Land Museum, the Lubin Pioneers 1945 exhibition and the former artillery range, and if time remains, a Gothic church. The first shows copper mining in the Bolesław shaft, the second tells about settlers after 1945, the third is a historic fortification complex. All describe the town from a different angle.
The Jan Wyżykowski Lubin Land Museum has worked since 2002 in a shaft belonging to KGHM Polska Miedź, on national road number 3 towards Polkowice. You will see mining machines, copper minerals, miners' clothing and a reconstructed adit that shows what mine corridors looked like. By the railway station stands an open-air exhibition about the first settlers: its centrepiece is a historic steam locomotive Ty2-22 with wagons and reconstructed scenes of everyday life.
The former artillery range is a complex of earth and brick fortifications from the 1930s, built for a unit of the 4th Dragoon Regiment. Tunnels covered with earth, brick screens and ammunition stores survive. Since 2018 it has been entered in the regional register of monuments, and the Historical Museum looks after it. Among churches note the Gothic church of St Maria Domenica Mazzarello, mentioned in sources in 1399, and the active Greek Catholic church built in 2006-2008.
Treat memorial sites with respect. The Memorial to the Victims of Lubin '82 near Castle Hill commemorates the suppression of a demonstration against martial law in August 1982. The former Jewish cemetery on Krucza street was destroyed during the war and is a playground today; traces of old gravestones survive only in the trees.
Choose a play centre, a trampoline park or the zoo if the weather is fine. Lubin has several indoor play centres and a trampoline park, so rain does not spoil the plan. For parents there are cafés on site, and some centres accept the Large Family Card.
Akuku has a main hall with five slides, two trampolines and a pitch, and for children from zero to four years a separate zone with a ball pit and a bouncy castle. Parents can stay in the café. Hoppark on Zwierzyckiego street admits children from 3 years and combines trampolines with a parkour zone, a gladiator track and foam pits. Smaller play centres are Mrówka on Wrocławska street, Kubusiowy Zakątek on Norwida street and Bawidełko, which joins a play room with a café and a toy shop.
When the weather is fine, go to the Rope Park in the Forest Park. Its two routes are 260 metres long in total, and for the youngest there is a structure shaped like a wooden crocodile. In the area, in Obora, you will find the Fairy Tale Land, a play room joined with an animal ranch. More ideas for families are in the category for children.
Visit the Regional Sports Centre, which gathers pools, an ice rink, a bowling alley and a shooting range. Kielich is a climbing wall, and the town also has bowling alleys, laser tag and paintball. Everything lies in town or right next to it.
The outdoor RCS pools include a sports pool with a water surface of 1112 square metres and six lanes of 25 metres, plus a recreation pool and a children's pool. In winter the RCS ice rink works, with a 1800 square metre surface and a 250-metre speed track; the season usually lasts from December to the end of February. The RCS bowling alley has six lanes, and the BowlingClub on 1 Maja street has eight Qubica AMF lanes with a pizzeria.
Kielich is a former water tower adapted for climbing in 1996. It is 34 metres tall and has seven routes of various difficulty, and at 19 metres the wall leans into an overhang. For groups there is the Laser Tag Arena on Chocianowska street and the BIGo paintball field in Kłopotów, about 5 kilometres from town; booking is compulsory. In the evening check also the events in Lubin.
Yes. Entry to the zoo is free all year round. The zoo covers 14.47 hectares of the revitalised Wrocław Park in the town centre.
Go to a play centre, for example Akuku, Mrówka or Bawidełko, or to the Hoppark trampoline park. Children from 3 years can jump on indoor trampolines.
The Historical Museum has four branches: the Town Hall, the Forest Park, an area by the railway station and the Pałacyk Gallery. Separately works the Lubin Land Museum in the Bolesław shaft, devoted to copper mining.
Outdoor pools work at the Regional Sports Centre: a sports pool, a recreation pool and a children's pool. Check the season and hours on the venue's page.
Yes, on Kielich, the wall in the former water tower. It is 34 metres tall and has seven climbing routes. It is run by the Mountain Lovers Association in Lubin.
