New Palm House (Nowa Palmiarnia), Łazienki Park

Łazienki Królewskie, the summer residence of Stanisław August Poniatowski laid out in the 18th century, has four gardens (Royal, Romantic, Modernist and Chinese) and older orangeries. The Old Orangery dates from 1786-1788, and the exotic plants kept in the Old and New Orangeries were destroyed in 1944. The New Palm House is a far more recent building, not to be confused with the 19th-century New Orangery: Wikidata places its construction in the 2010s, and the Warsaw press was already writing about it in August 2016. It is the work of the architect Andrzej Jurkiewicz, its aluminium façades being installed by the company APS-System according to the manufacturer YAWAL's project sheet.

In the first half of 2019 the museum opened an educational space there, equipped with help from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (programme "Infrastruktura Kultury 2018"). The museum runs its Centre for Ecological Education (Centrum Edukacji Ekologicznej) there. The space has since hosted the temporary exhibition "Życie królewskiego ogrodu" ("Life of the Royal Garden"), shown from 20 June to 14 September 2025 and devoted to the history of the three main Łazienki gardens. After the July 2024 storm, which damaged more than a hundred trees in the park, uprooted roots were used there for an installation.

The museum describes a "fully glazed" building, designed with modern technological solutions and with a form adapted to its function. It has two volumes: an upper part, closed to visitors, where plants from the museum's collection are kept, and a lower, accessible part fitted out as an educational space. According to cadastral data reused by OpenStreetMap, it covers about 535 m² on the ground and stands 10 metres high. The coordinates published by the museum agree with Wikidata and with the OpenStreetMap outline, in the north-eastern part of the park.

The façades use YAWAL's FA 50N HI and FA 50N SW aluminium systems, installed by APS-System. Inside, the relaxation zone offers swinging nest-shaped seats made of volcanic basalt rock, and the workshop zone has two large work tables; tactile models evoke the natural life of the park, amid abundant greenery.

The upper part of the pavilion, closed to the public, holds exotic plants from the museum's collection: citrus, laurel and olive trees. The accessible part is filled with abundant greenery and with tactile models presenting the natural life of Łazienki.

The educational zone, which accompanied the temporary exhibition "Życie królewskiego ogrodu", tells the story of the residence's biodiversity: trees of the park, native ones and species from Asia and North America, a patchwork map hand-sewn by the artist Anna Sławińska in which the thread distinguishes the Royal, Romantic and Modernist gardens, an installation of tree roots torn up by the 2024 storm, a seed library from which visitors can take seeds home, bird figurines, and old and modern methods of protecting trees. Visitors also have microscopes, plant presses and models of plants and animals.

The New Palm House stands in the north-east of the park, between the Cantonists' Barracks, which house the Museum of Hunting and Horsemanship, and the hippodrome built in 1927. It is open to individual visitors only three days a week (Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday), the other days being reserved for museum lessons and workshops, and a visit is limited to sixty minutes.

The place combines easily with the Old Orangery, about 330 metres away, and with the Royal, Romantic and Modernist gardens. It suits families well, with its workshops, microscopes and reading corner; the upper part, where the citrus trees stand, cannot be visited.