Warmia and Mazury’s Monuments Park in Gierłoża is the newest tourist attraction combining education with entertainment in Poland. It is intended for people of all ages who want to learn about the history and culture of this beautiful region. The Park (over seven and a half acres adjacent to the legendary Hitler’s quarters – Wolf’s Liar) offers the visitors a chance to see the miniatures of the selected, region’s most characteristic buildings, historic and archeological exhibits. This year’s exhibition will be supplemented by the ‘Atlantis 2009’ photo gallery.
Created by a group of people who love this region, The Warmia and Mazury’s Monuments Park is an educational trail showing in an attractive and interesting way the cultural, ethnographical and architectural richness of Warmia and Mazury Province. The tourists visiting the park will have a chance to see the province’s most characteristic structures carefully and precisely crafted into 1 to 25 scale models. This year, the park exhibits: Lehndorff family Palace in Sztynort, the windmill in Bęsa, a Prussian fort, a Masurian cottage and the railway bridge in Stańczyki. Future plans are for the collection to be expanded by models of all most important structures in East Prussia, including those destroyed in the past.
At the moment, the Park exhibits other famous monuments of Warmia and Mazury as well. Presented on large format photos are monuments from: Malbork, Święta Lipka, Lidzbark Warmiński, Nidzica, Dobrocin, Galin and Kwidzyn.
This season’s additional tourist attraction is the ‘Atlantis 2009’ photo exhibition, prepared especially for the opening of the Park. It consists of around a hundred photographs, including unique, archival images of the most precious monuments of this region and Kaliningrad. The photographs are presented in a large format.
The Park has many rarely shown, unique  historical and archeological exhibits. The creators of the Park want the place to become interactive, where on one hand professional groups will be enacting major historical events in the region, and on the other hand the visitors will be able to participate. Periodically organized historical festivals transport tourists to the times of ancient Prussians, Teutonic Knights, 17th century Polish nobles or Second World War.
The Warmia and Mazury’s Monuments Park also incorporates what used to be Adolf Hitler quarters’ vegetable garden and orangery. The Park overlaps the Zone 1 of Wolf’s Liar. Because 3rd Reich's Fuhrer was supposedly a vegetarian, he paid much attention to what he was eating and always demanded fresh vegetables; therefore the plants were grown even during winters, in greenhouses heated by boilers. Some of the older people living in nearby villages remember buildings with tall chimneys – where the boilers were – but only foundations and basements remained till this day. A special exhibition containing natural stones and stone fragments of old buildings is being built nearby, to state that the past has not been forgotten.
The Warmia and Mazury’s Monuments Park successfully merges education with entertainment and creates a perfect place for repose and recreation for both adults and children. There is a playground prepared especially for the youngest of tourists. The parents can use charge-free umbrellas and carrycots. There is a grill bar available, should someone plan to stop for a longer visit.
The Warmia and Mazury’s Monuments Park is a unique investment in the region, expanding the offer of tourist attractions of the Masurian Lake District and may be an important factor in financial stimulation of these lands. The preparation of the investment alone with current running of the Park created additional workplace for the local community, enabling further development of the area.
The Warmia and Mazury’s Monuments Park is open for visitors as of 27th June 2009; it is scheduled for winter maintenance at the end of October 2009.
Opening hours 9 a.m. till 6 p.m. Tickets cost PLN 8, children under the age of 4 can visit for free. The parking for the visitors is charge-free.
The whole project is organized by Nowe Media Group and Warmia and Mazury’s Educational Park.
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