![The Warsaw Museum](http://thriftytrails.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/850x638xDSCN6994-1024x768.jpg.pagespeed.ic.yMWdAv9ytC.jpg)
We drove about 2 hours from home to Warsaw to see The Warsaw Museum.
![Warsaw streets](http://thriftytrails.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/850x638xDSCN6995-1024x768.jpg.pagespeed.ic.xLtiAtsaCf.jpg)
View from the city street in Warsaw.
![Warsaw old town](http://thriftytrails.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/850x638xDSCN7001-1024x768.jpg.pagespeed.ic.rVeA0SjuN0.jpg)
The nearby Old Town Marketplace has been reconstructed and has many shops and buildings to see.
![Warsaw old town](http://thriftytrails.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/850x638xDSCN7003-1024x768.jpg.pagespeed.ic.wsnJgv5YNE.jpg)
Nearly all of Warsaw was destroyed.
![Warsaw old town streets](http://thriftytrails.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/850x638xDSCN7010-1024x768.jpg.pagespeed.ic.-0JvG19B8W.jpg)
The streets have many bars and restaurants but we had no time because we didn’t want to get a parking ticket.
![Krystyna Krahelska Mermaid Statue (Pomnik Syreny)](http://thriftytrails.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/850x638xDSCN7015-1024x768.jpg.pagespeed.ic.Jl6cR7YBmG.jpg)
The mermaid statue was modeled after Krystyna Krahelska who died in the first days of Warsaw Uprising.
![The Old Town mermaid statue](http://thriftytrails.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/850x638xDSCN7016-1024x768.jpg.pagespeed.ic.pNypNLXUwz.jpg)
The original was moved to the Warsaw Museum whereas the statue in The Old Town Marketplace is a replica sculpted by Konstanty Hegel.
![Warsaw old town](http://thriftytrails.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/640x480xDSCN7035-1024x768.jpg.pagespeed.ic.3DsgYHtxHF.jpg)
![Little Insurgent](http://thriftytrails.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/850x638xDSCN7044-1024x768.jpg.pagespeed.ic.Yb65Ryfu4r.jpg)
The “Little Insurget” is a statue commemorating the child solders who fought and died during the Warsaw Uprising of 1944.