Wrocław's culture is layered like its river islands: a 114-metre panoramic canvas hauled from Lviv, a Modernist centennial hall by Max Berg, and gallery-filled tenements in Nadodrze. Three days of art, stagecraft and Silesian reinvention.
A 114 m × 15 m cycloramic canvas of the 1794 Battle of Racławice, painted by Styka and Kossak in 1894 and hidden for decades after 1946. Timed 30-minute entry with audio guide; opens 09:00, last slot late afternoon.
Housed in an 1886 neo-Renaissance government palace, with Europe's finest collection of Silesian Gothic sculpture and stone tomb slabs on the ground floor, plus Polish painting from Matejko to Malczewski above.
A contemporary art museum inside a windowless 1942 Nazi air-raid bunker on Strzegomski Square, its brutal drum converted in 2011. Six floors of Polish conceptual art, plus the Jerzy Ludwiński archive of avant-garde theory.
Max Berg's 1913 Centennial Hall, a UNESCO site, was the largest reinforced-concrete dome on earth at 65 m span. Circle the ribbed interior, then walk the pergola's half-kilometre curve to the multimedia fountain.
Poland's oldest puppet theatre, founded 1946, in a neo-Renaissance building on Plac Teatralny. Repertoire runs from children's marionettes to adult experimental pieces; the foyer displays historic rod and shadow puppets.
Inside the Baroque Pod Złotym Słońcem tenement on the Rynek, built around Mickiewicz's handwritten manuscript of Pan Tadeusz. Two immersive routes cover Polish Romanticism and the postwar Lviv-to-Wrocław resettlement.
Opened 2015 on Plac Wolności, a copper-clad box by Kuryłowicz with a 1,800-seat main hall tuned by Yasuhisa Toyota. Home to Wrocław Baroque Orchestra and NFM Leopoldinum; daytime tours cover the acoustic canopy.
Carl Ferdinand Langhans's 1841 neoclassical theatre on Świdnicka, famous for Ewa Michnik's outdoor mega-productions. The gilded auditorium seats 570; the season runs September to June with Polish surtitles plus English.
The White Stork Synagogue of 1829 survived Kristallnacht because it stood wedged between tenements. Restored courtyard now hosts the Jewish culture centre, klezmer concerts and an exhibition on Breslau's prewar community.
A once-derelict tenement quarter north of the Oder, revived since 2010 by artist studios, ceramics workshops and the Łokietka 5 arts hub. Restored Jugendstil doorways along Roosevelta are documented on a walking trail.
Europe's only museum devoted solely to architecture, in a 15th-century Bernardine monastery. Highlights include salvaged stained glass, Silesian portals, and a permanent room on the 1929 WuWA Werkbund housing estate.
Barbara on Świdnicka is the city's culture information café and exhibition room in a 1960s milk-bar interior. Ten minutes west, Neon Side courtyard on Ruska collects rescued communist-era neon signs, lit after dusk.