The museum building was originally a historic granary dating back to the late 19th century.
The Jarocin Festival, which the museum documents, was famously the largest rock music festival behind the Iron Curtain in the 1980s.
Exhibitions feature interactive stations where visitors can mix their own music tracks.
The collection includes stage outfits and personal instruments used by key figures in the Polish alternative scene.
The museum's interior architecture utilizes a 'floating' steel and glass structure inserted into the original brick shell of the granary.
Visitors can listen to hundreds of hours of archival recordings from festival editions dating back to the 1970s.
The museum hosts temporary exhibitions focusing on sub-genres like punk, reggae, and blues that thrived during the festival's peak.
It is a central point for the 'Jarocin - The Capital of Rock' cultural heritage project.
Spichlerz Polskiego Rocka (Polish Rock Granary) is a multimedia museum dedicated to the history of the iconic Jarocin Festival, which served as a focal point for the Polish independent music scene during the communist era. Housed in a revitalized 19th-century granary, the museum utilizes interactive displays to track the evolution of domestic rock music from the 1970s through the 1990s. Visitors navigate exhibitions that highlight the cultural resistance and artistic freedom associated with the Jarocin movement. The facility preserves archival recordings, rare concert footage, and memorabilia donated by legendary Polish rock musicians. Its architectural design preserves the historical wooden internal structure of the granary while integrating modern digital exhibition technologies. The museum serves as both a repository of youth subculture history and a contemporary concert space.
The central atrium showing the contrast between the historic wooden granary beams and the modern steel exhibition platforms.
Use the provided headphones at interactive stations to hear original concert interviews and song snippets.
Check the official website for temporary concert listings, as the museum often hosts live acoustic performances.
Allocate time to read the detailed testimonials from past festival participants displayed on the walls.
Do not treat the museum as a traditional, static art gallery; failure to interact with the multimedia stations will cause you to miss most of the content.
Closed on Mondays.
