Museums
a small museum of Beskid tourism history in a wooden building on the Przysłop clearing
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an exhibition of cups, medals, skis and jumpsuits of the ski jumper Adam Małysz, opened in Wisła in 2007
the villa of the psychologist Julian Ochorowicz, the first brick building in Wisła, now a museum
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a multimedia museum of ski jumping and skiing with Adam Małysz's trophies and simulators
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museum with over 10,000 exhibits on parachuting, the Cichociemni and special forces
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branch of the Cieszyn museum on the culture of the Beskid highlanders, in a former Evangelical inn from 1827
Museums in Wisła: exhibitions on Adam Małysz, Beskid highlander culture, Ochorowicz's villa and a mountain tourism museum under Barania Góra.
Wisła is not only trails and ski jumps. The small town holds six museums covering skiing, highlander traditions, the history of hiking and some unusual passions. All of them suit a day when the Beskid weather rules out a long hike.
The Adam Małysz Beskid Ski Centre is a modern, interactive museum on Bulwar Księżycowy. It tells the story of skiing in the Beskids, with a focus on ski jumping, and offers an exhibition in five zones plus jump simulators. It grew out of the small Zimowit museum, and the new building shows more than eighty historic exhibits, from skis of the late nineteenth century to equipment of the 1930s.
The local jumper also features in the Adam Małysz Sports Trophies Gallery at ul. 1 Maja 48a. It presents about a thousand keepsakes: cups, medals, skis, jumpsuits and helmets. Małysz was born in Wisła in 1977, and an article on ski jumping in Wisła-Malinka follows his story.
The Beskid Museum, named after Andrzej Podżorski, belongs to the Museum of Cieszyn Silesia as a branch and occupies a Protestant inn built in 1827. It opened in August 1964. Its collections include everyday objects, furniture, costumes, folk art and paintings by artists such as Czesław Kuryatto and Ludwik Konarzewski. The address at T. Regera 6 is in Wisła.
The villa known as Ochorowiczówka, at Juliana Ochorowicza 6, now serves as a museum. Julian Ochorowicz, a philosopher and psychologist regarded as a pioneer of experimental psychology, settled in Wisła around 1899 and made his home and workshop here. The background to the resort's development is in an article on Wisła as a summer resort.
The Museum of Parachuting and Special Forces, in the Agawa villa at Przylesie 1a, was founded in 2003 in memory of Lt Col. Adolf Pilch, a Cichociemni (Silent Unseen) paratrooper and a soldier of the Home Army. It has gathered more than ten thousand mementoes: badges, uniforms, documents, equipment and photographs.
On the Przysłop clearing below Barania Góra stands the Mountain Tourism Museum, run by the PTTK hiking society. The display fills three rooms of a wooden building next to the hut and covers about forty square metres. It is more a stop on the trail than a destination in itself. Other places in town are gathered among the attractions of Wisła, with the hills in the roundup of mountains around Wisła. Museums across the region are covered under museums in Silesia.
The Adam Małysz Sports Trophies Gallery, with about a thousand keepsakes, and the Beskid Ski Centre, with its interactive display and jump simulators.
In the Beskid Museum named after Andrzej Podżorski, in an inn building of 1827. The holdings include costumes, furniture and folk art.
It is the villa of Julian Ochorowicz, where a museum now operates. The philosopher set up his home, workshop and psychological laboratory there.
On the Przysłop clearing below Barania Góra, next to the PTTK hut, within the administrative limits of Wisła.
