Muzeum Ziemi Usteckiej

Old photographs, documents and everyday objects reveal Ustka through the lives of its residents. The Museum of the Ustka Region collects objects and photographs from the turn of the twentieth century alongside post-war documents. Its holdings include typewriters, sewing machines, old washing devices and photographic equipment: cameras, lamps, enlargers and a copying device. Paintings and sculptures by local artist and teacher Michał Stroiński form another strand of the collection.

Memorabilia from the Ustka shipyard are an important part of the museum. Models of trawlers, fishing boats and lifeboats represent vessels associated with local production. They are accompanied by fishing-boat fittings, banners, medals, photographs and chronicles. These are material traces of a shipyard that has disappeared from the town's industrial landscape. The permanent display occupies the ground-floor room, while temporary exhibitions are held upstairs.

The museum opened on 27 June 2000 through the efforts of the Friends of Ustka Association. Plans for a home of its own developed after an exhibition held at the Baltic Art Gallery in 1995. The growing collection needed somewhere to stay permanently. Construction of a replica eighteenth-century timber-framed house began in May 1996. Residents, association members and students from the local technical school helped as volunteers.