• The Vistula Lagoon Museum in Kąty Rybackie will be closed to visitors until December 31, 2025

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VISTULA LAGOON MUSEUM

Located right next to the harbour in Kąty Rybackie, the branch of the National Maritime Museum in Gdańsk holds a collection of artefacts related to the history of fishing and boatbuilding on the Vistula Lagoon. The exhibition, housed in a studio warehouse hall, presents traditional fishing boats, boat-building tools and equipment. Visitors’ attention will undoubtedly be attracted to sail-powered ‘barkas’ boats, smaller ‘żakówka’ boats, fishing tools from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, as well as elements of the historical boatbuilding workshop of the Schmidt family from the village of Łaszka near Sztutowo. The exhibition is enriched with: ice fishing tools, ropemaking machines and reminiscences of former fishermen. The Museum is also a space for educational activities related to the history of fishing, boatbuilding and ropemaking, as well as thematic temporary exhibitions.

Fragment of the exhibition in the Vistula Lagoon Museum with a “żakówka” fishing boat and aa antique boatbuilding workshop An oak-wood “żakówka” boat made in 1950 by a boatbuilder from Łaszka near Sztutowo - Henryk Schmidt. Beside is the complete boatbuilding workshop of the Schmidt family “Żakówka” and “barkas” - examples of antique fishing boats in the Vistula Lagoon Museum Lagoon and sea boat from 1988, built in Józef Galicki's boatbuilding workshop in Kąty Rybackie Sailboat made by Henryk Schmidt for his son Reinhard in 1950. The vessel was built of oak wood and has a spreading sail Fragment of the exhibition in the Vistula Lagoon Museum with the “żakówka” boat from the stern side Stern part of 10-metre-long “barkas” boat in the Vistula Lagoon Museum Fishing gear and “żakówka” boat from 1970s in the open-air museum at the Vistula Lagoon Museum Replica of a fishing boat from the 1950s built in 2006 as a part of the “Lagomar” project Fishing net of the "żak" type Wooden tongs with a wedge - equipment from the antique workshop of the Schmidt family from Łaszka near Sztutowo and a lathe used for machining and drilling wooden surfaces by turning Sculpture "Boat" by Dominik Kotarba - a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk. The sculpture was made of tens of thousands of wooden sticks collected on the beach in Mikoszewo and was the author's diploma piece Antique fishing tools, a metal winch for boats and a wooden turnstile for pulling in vessels Fishermen's markers for marking the fishing ground Iceboat of the “Ludowy – 8” type, called "Weiland" after its constructor. Donated by Krynica Morska Yacht Club Replica of a traditional fishing boat from the area of the Vistula Lagoon, built within the framework of the ,,Lagomar" project. The vessel is on a slip trolley on a turntable - the remains of an historical boatbuilding workshop

Opening hours

The Vistula Lagoon Museum closed to visitors

(valid until 31.12.2025)

Opening hours in other time periods (2025)
Museum closures (2025)

Closing of ticket offices and last entry to the exhibition: 30 minutes before closing of the Museum.

Tickets

Regular – 5 PLN
Discount – 3 PLN

Group supervisor or guide (1 person per 10 participants) – 1 PLN

Wednesday – free entrance

List of discounted and free entries

(valid until 26.10.2025)

Practical information

Address:
Muzeum Zalewu Wiślanego
Kąty Rybackie, ul. Rybacka 64
82-110 Sztutowo

Magdalena Woźniak – head of branch
phone: +48 55 247 87 77, +48 603 112 788
e-mail: m.zalewu@nmm.pl

Getting to the Vistula Lagoon Museum

Parking spaces

  • Parking spaces for bicycles: on the Museum’s premises
  • Toll parking for passenger cars: parking next to the Museum – more detailed route on Google Maps (50 m, 1 minute)
  • Toll parking for coaches: parking next to the Museum – more detailed route on Google Maps (50 m, 1 minute)
  • The possibility for the coach to pull in the parking near the museum to let the passengers out

About the tour

  • Exhibitions on 1 floor (ground floor)
  • Average tour duration: 45 minutes

Information for persons with disabilities

  • Exhibitions accessible for wheelchair users
  • Exhibitions accessible for wheelchair users
  • The possibility to experience selected exhibits through touching available for organized groups of visually impaired or blind people under the care of the NMM educator

Taking pictures of the exhibitions

  • Only taking pictures and amateur videos (without flash and tripod) for personal use is permitted. Professional photography and filming require the permission of the Director of the Museum

Foreign languages at the exhibitions

  • Captions in Polish and English

Additional information

  • No cloakroom
  • Lockers
  • Toilet

Permanent exhibition

Exhibition in The Vistula Lagoon Museum

Exhibition in The Vistula Lagoon Museum