The Polish Vodka Museum occupies a building where vodka was actually distilled, in the Koneser factory complex in Warsaw's Praga district. Production ran on this site from 1897 until 2007, and it was here, during the interwar years, that recipes for Wyborowa and Luksusowa were developed.
The museum opened in 2018 in the original rectification plant, which is to say the building where raw spirit was purified into the finished product. Five interactive galleries trace 500 years of Polish distilling, from medieval alchemists treating vodka as medicine to the industrial giants whose labels still line supermarket shelves today. Among nearly 10,000 exhibits is a sealed 1940s bottle of cherry vodka that has never been opened.
A VoiceMap tour of Praga passes through the Koneser complex, placing the museum within the broader story of this working-class district's transformation from factory district to one of Warsaw's most compelling neighbourhoods.