List of registered museums in Poland

The Minister of Culture and National Heritage of Poland may inscribe a Polish museum into the National Register of Museums (Polish: Państwowy Rejestr Muzeów) in order to confirm the high level of its cultural activity and the importance of its collection.

Only those museums that meet the required criteria – including importance of the museum's collection, a team of well qualified employees, an adequate building, and a permanent source of financing – may be entered into the register.

A registered museum has the right of pre-emption for artefacts offered for sale by antique traders and at auctions.

[2] The rest of the state-owned museums are either under the supervision of local authorities of various levels (voivodeships, counties or communes) or are supervised jointly by a government ministry and local authorities.

[3] Warsaw, the capital and largest city of Poland, has the highest concentration of registered museums, numbering sixteen.