Muzeum Marynarki Wojennej, Gdynia

Marynarki Wojennej Museum in Gdynia - a museum that collects exhibits related to the Polish Navy. It was established in Gdynia on June 28, 1953.

The first seat of the Museum was an old villa next to the beach in Gdynia, where the exhibition was located, and on the surrounding grounds elements of ship's armament and equipment were exhibited, such as coastal artillery guns from Hel, cannons recovered from the wreck of ORP "Gryf" minesweeper, anti-aircraft guns from ORP "Błyskawica" torpedoes, mines. Several cannon barrels and naval cannons dating from the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries were imported from the museum storehouse in Gdansk. In 1960 a boat "Chatka Puchatków" was placed in the museum, on which two Polish sailors crossed the Atlantic in 1958-59.

Also in 1960, the museum received a very attractive exhibit - the ORP "Burza" destroyer, meritorious in battles during World War II, moored in the harbor at Skwer Kościuszki. During its 15 years of service, the ship-museum was visited by more than 3.7 million people. Due to its poor technical condition, ORP "Burza" was scrapped on 1 May 1976 and the function of the museum ship was taken over by ORP Błyskawica, the oldest destroyer in the world.

In May 1969 the facility and the exhibition were closed due to the poor technical condition of the building, after which some of the exhibits were moved to a temporary room at the Navy Club and the outdoor exhibition of weapons and armaments was placed at the Seaside Boulevard.

One of the most interesting exhibits is the world's only surviving example of a German BT 1000 rocket-propelled bombotorpedo from World War II.

On November 28, 2012, the grand opening of the museum's new headquarters took place in a building shared with the Gdynia City Museum.

A new multimedia permanent exhibition opened in November 2018 to mark the Navy's 100th anniversary. Plans are underway to add an underground portion of the facility at the site of the outdoor museum's Maritime Weapons and Armaments Exposition.