NAVAL MUSEUM

The Naval Museum has already become a part of Gdynia’s landscape. It is hard to imagine Kościuszko Square without ORP BŁYSKAWICA‘s beautiful silhouette or the Seaside Boulevard (Bulwar Nadmorski) without the Museum’s naval weaponry outdoor exhibition. The Naval Museum is a permanent institution in the service of the community and of its development. It is open to the public. The Museum acquires, conserves, researches and exhibits, the physical evidence of the history of the Polish Navy, for the purposes of study, education and enjoyment. One of our main aims is to be able to make the history of the Polish Navy more accessible to all.



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the only Allied ship that took an active part throughout the whole of WW2 – from the 1st of September 1939 to the 8th of May 1945. ORP BŁYSKAWICA was the most powerful destroyer of her time in Europe. The ship greatly surpassed rival navies' destroyers in terms of artillery power and especially speed. Now is preserved as a military museum ship in Gdynia, Poland.



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ORP Sokół (ex KNM Stord of the Royal Norwegian Navy) entered service in the Polish Navy on June 4, 2002, as the first of four Kobben-class submarines acquired from Norway. They were originally built to strengthen NATO’s northern flank. For this purpose, Norway selected the Type 207 submarines designed by Ingenieurkontor Lübeck, and built by the shipyard Rheinstahl Nordseewerke in Emden, Germany. With financial support from the United States, as many as 15 submarines of this type were built between 1964 and 1967.



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