Malbork Things to Do

The Museum presents its collections on permanent and temporary exhibitions. Artistic amber products, military accessories, coin and medal collections, Gothic sculpture and architectural details enjoy high popularity among tourists. The castle often houses concerts and ceremonies. State-of-the-art audiovisual facilities called Karwan are a place where conferences and scientific symposia are organised. In the high season you can take part in the "Light and Sound" night performances. You can discover new attractions of the castle on the night sightseeing guided tour in autumn and spring evenings. The Museum is open for everybody. It is involved in a number of educational activities: didactic games for pre-schools and history lessons for pupils. The Museum co-operates with numerous research centres in Poland and abroad.
You can rent castle rooms for conferences, concerts and official meetings. The unique atmosphere of historical interiors will add to the splendour of any ceremony.

You must walk this way as on my picture via wooden drawbridge. Another 3 walls to cross.
Don't worry - there are not three border crossing points there nowadays. Sometimes local knights can ask you only where is your photo/video passport hehe.

Look at the architectural details of the northern peak of the Castle's western wing. It's located to the right of the entrance gate.
There are gothic sharp arches and typical shape of the peak of the castles of the Teutonic Order.
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To go inside the castle you must pass through this bridge over the moat on my picture.
It's covered and made of dark wood.
The moat is not covered by water nowadays. You can even walk at the bottom of the moat.

Go upstairs and walk along the cloisters, around the courtyard. The medieval cloisters with gothic vaults look really amazing - each side of the courtyard looks a little bit different. And there are entrances to many exhibitions there.

Don't forget to go upstairs to the cloisters (look at the stairs on my picture) whenever you are in the castle's courtyard. There are a lot of places and exhibitions to see with entrances from the cloisters.
Pay attention to the beautiful walls, colous and patterns of bricks.

The stoves warmed chambers with the heat accumulated in stones place above their ovens. This heat was radiated through channels that had openings in the chamber floors. We now call this system the "Medieval hypokaustum". Without a doubt the advantage of this system was efficiency, in other words heating effectively whilst conserving fuel. Fuel consisted mainly of wood, of which there is relatively little in the ?u?awy region. Nevertheless, not all the stoves of this variety remain in the Malbork Castle. Those remaining were in large part modified in the nineteenth century. The stoves were generally identical in build, varying only in size.
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Of all the heating systems that ever existed in the Castle, the medieval stoves were and still are a source of great attention.

The largest of these stoves was located underneath the most beautiful hall, the Great Refectory Hall, so you must go downstairs - look at my picture.