The Władysław Orkan Museum established in a former 17th-century larch-wood church, includes a collection of folk sculpture and paintings on glass.

During World War II, the Germans established a Nazi police school called the Sipo-SD Academy in the town,[1][2] to train executioners and torturers.

The school and its surroundings were the place of numerous atrocities before it was eventually closed down as the war approached its end and the Germans left.

The Nazi Police training school was originally situated in Zakopane, but was moved to Rabka in July 1940 along with the permanent staff and the Jewish workers.

[4] To cover up the numerous murders at the school Rosenbaum ordered the Rabka Town Clerk, Cheslav Triboski, to register their deaths as “victims of heart attacks.”[4]