Water parks and pools
a water park with a movable-floor pool, a 7-metre diving tube and a saunarium
Museums
a museum of everyday life in 1945-1989 in a former farmstead: flat interiors, a cinema and PRL-era cars
Museums
a multimedia exhibition on the history of the town from the Middle Ages, in a former school and municipal hall building
Culture
late 19th-century brick and steel station, today a library and cultural centre
intuitive and naive painting by Silesian self-taught artists, in Ruda Śląska since 2010
What to do in Ruda Śląska when it rains? The Aquadrom water park, two museums, a library in an old station and a gallery of intuitive painting, all indoors.
These are five places in one city, so a wet day can be planned in several ways: with the family, on your own, or with an interest in everyday life and industry.
For movement and water the best choice is Aquadrom, and for quiet sightseeing one of two museums: the PRL museum on Zajęcza street or the Maksymilian Chrobok City Museum on Wolności street. Pick the library in the historic station or the painting gallery for calm.
Aquadrom stands in Halemba, in the Kłodnica valley, at Kłodnicka 95a. Its zones are Recreation, Sport and Sauna, and the best-known features are a pool with a moving bottom and a diving tube seven metres deep. It opened in December 2012 as the third aqua park in the region.
The Museum of the History of the Polish People's Republic occupies a former manor farm, Dwór Nowa Ruda, and shows daily life in Poland in 1945-1989. Until 2023 it was called the PRL Museum. You will see furnished flats, a reconstruction of the office of the Party's first secretary, cars of the period and a park of monuments, best visited between showers.
The Maksymilian Chrobok City Museum tells the story of the whole of Ruda Śląska through the industrial revolution. Its main exhibition is called “Time is money”, and collecting began in 1976. The Collection of Intuitive Art “Barwy Śląska” is a gallery of self-taught painters from the collection of Stanisław Gerard Trefon. Until 2010 it was housed in Nakło Śląskie, and according to available descriptions it now works at Młyńska 16.
Stacja Biblioteka is the main seat of the city library, set up in the Ruda Chebzie station from 1897-1899. It opened after restoration in 2019. Trains still call at the station, and its main hall has stayed a waiting room. The building is part of the Industrial Monuments Route, and the industrial past of the city is covered in texts on the Pokój steelworks and the Ficinus colony in Wirek.
All five: Aquadrom, both museums, Stacja Biblioteka and the Barwy Śląska gallery. At the PRL museum, however, the park of monuments is outdoors.
Families should choose Aquadrom, which has a recreation zone, or the PRL museum with its cars and furnished flats. The other places are calmer.
To the museums, the library in the old station and the gallery of intuitive painting. All suit solo sightseeing, and Aquadrom also has a sauna zone.
The full choice is in the section of rainy-day attractions, and places in the city are gathered on the Ruda Śląska page.
