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Warsaw / Poland
Located on level 0 of Warsaw's POLIN Museum at 6 Anielewicza Street, Austeria at POLIN is run by the Austeria publishing house and sells books on Jewish history, culture, and literature alongside museum catalogues and Judaica. The bookstore is open without a museum admission ticket and also sells through its own online shop.
Best for Bookstore, Judaica, publishing
Warsaw / Poland / Online
The official boutique of Poland's Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera sells archival opera and ballet posters, exhibition catalogues, and theatre-branded gadgets through its online store and a physical butik in the theatre's left wing, open daily 11:00-19:00. Its poster collection spans decades of past productions, from historic ballets to recent premieres.
Best for Opera, theatre, posters, publications
Multiple, Warsaw
Poland's largest bookstore and media chain — books in Polish and English, music, and gifts. The flagship on Nowy Świat is worth visiting.
Best for Polish and English books, music, and gifts at the Nowy Świat flagship
Krakowskie Przedmieście 7, Warsaw, Poland / Warsaw / Poland
Opened in May 1952 as a Dom Książki and PIW bookshop at Krakowskie Przedmieście 7 — the Grodzicki tenement, and the address Prus gave Wokulski's shop in Lalka. Renamed on 19 May 1962, fifty years after Prus's death. Wprost ranked it Warsaw's best bookshop in 2006.
Best for Books at the Warsaw address associated with Wokulski’s shop in Lalka.
Warszawa / Poland / Online
The Museum of Warsaw's online bookshop specializes in Varsaviana, offering books, exhibition catalogues, maps, and city-themed keepsakes drawn from the museum's collections. Running on the Shoper e-commerce platform, it ships across Poland and lists titles such as "In Between: A Short History of Warsaw" alongside historic city map reprints.
Best for Varsaviana books, exhibition catalogues, and historic Warsaw map reprints
Śródmieście
Founded in October 2018, Tajfuny is a Warsaw bookshop and publishing house devoted to East Asian literature, with a storefront on Chmielna Street in Śródmieście and a sister location in Kraków, publishing Polish translations of authors including Yoko Ogawa, Hiromi Kawakami and Ranpo Edogawa.
Best for East Asian literature and culture from this publisher-bookshop
Tajfuny was founded in October 2018 as a publishing house specializing narrowly in Japanese and wider East Asian literature translated into Polish, a niche few other Polish publishers had focused on at that scale. Alongside publishing, the company runs its own bookshops, including a storefront on Chmielna Street in Warsaw's central Śródmieście district and a second location in Kraków, both stocking curated selections of Asian literature in translation as well as the press's own titles. Its catalog includes Polish editions of authors such as Kanoko Okamoto, Ranpo Edogawa, Yoko Ogawa and Hiromi Kawakami, produced with qualified translators and editors working from the original Japanese and other East Asian languages. The publisher also maintains an online store that ships internationally, extending its reach beyond its two physical locations. Tajfuny's opening in Warsaw drew a large crowd according to Polish book-trade press coverage at the time, reflecting existing appetite among Polish readers for East Asian fiction previously served mostly by import copies or occasional single-title translations from larger houses.
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