Booksellers & Stationers in Warsaw
6 stores · curated ORBIS register
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.
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.
Poland's largest bookstore and media chain — books in Polish and English, music, and gifts. The flagship on Nowy Świat is worth visiting.
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.
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.
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.