For visitors
Opening hours
| Monday | closed |
| Tuesday | 09:00-17:00 |
| Wednesday | 09:00-17:00 |
| Thursday | 09:00-17:00 |
| Friday | 11:00-19:00 |
| Saturday | 11:00-19:00 |
| Sunday | 11:00-19:00 |
Ticket price list
| Standard ticket | 10 zł |
| Reduced ticket | 5 zł |
| Exhibition opening | free entry |
| Children under 3 | free entry |
| Author/curator’s guided tour | 20 zł – normal 10 zł – reduced |
Tickets for the exhibitions can be purchased at the Gallery box office and through the biletyna.pl system.
Location
The Rzeczna Art Gallery is located in the center of Rybnik. As a result, parking lots, the bus terminal, bus stops, and the railway station are in close proximity.
Rzeczna Art Gallery
The Rybnik Centre for Art Education
Rzeczna 1 street, 44-200 Rybnik
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access
The Gallery can be reached on foot from the city square, by car or by bicycle.
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parking
The gallery is located opposite the city’s parking lot No. 1 on Hallera Street
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food service
The gallery is located in the city center, a short walk from many restaurants.
Accessibility
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architectural accessibility
The passages between the halls are free of doorsteps and the entrance to the Gallery is preceded by a gentle descent.
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elevator
An elevator inside the building adapted to the needs of people with disabilities aids travel through the Gallery’s floors.
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restroom
Adapted to the needs of people with disabilities.
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website
Meets WCAG 2.1 guidelines to the extent provided for cultural institutions.
ARCHITECTURAL ACCESSIBILITY DECLARATION OF THE RZECZNA ART GALLERY
Address and contact
Rzeczna Art Gallery
The Rybnik Centre for Art Education
Rzeczna 1 street, 44-200 Rybnik
Phone number: 32 44 07 132, e-mail: kontakt.galeria@tzr.rybnik.pl
The person responsible for ensuring Gallery’s accessibility: Agnieszka Zielonka-Mitura
Phone number: 32 44 07 132, e-mail: projekty.galeria@tzr.rybnik.pl
The Gallery’s surroundings and entrance
The Rzeczna Art Gallery – The Rybnik Centre for Art Education building is located in the very center of Rybnik, in the space between the City Market and the Multi-Level Parking, next to the TBS building. Approaching the Gallery is possible from all sides of the building, by a gentle slope or by stairs, depending on the side approached. Around the Gallery, there are wide sidewalks, lined with smooth and non-slip paving stones. The paving stones are dark gray.
Nearby the Gallery there are:
- bus stops Śródmieście Sąd (City Centre Court) (about 5 minutes away on foot);
- bus stops Śródmieście Plac Wolności (City Centre Freedom Square) (about 10 minutes away on foot);
- Rybnik Train Station (about 15 minutes away on foot);
- City Parking no. 1 – paid multi-level parking building with places for people with disabilities (about 3 minutes away on foot);
- bars for parking and securing bikes (on the left side of the main entrance, about 10 meters away).
The Gallery is located in a double-story building. It’s dark gray, the same color as the sidewalk. The main entrance is located inside a large niche, on the Eastern side of the building, on Rzeczna 1 Street. The entrance is completely glass-paneled, there are no contracting elements on it. The doorframe is gray. The doors are heavy and have to be opened manually. Next to the entrance there is no bell, entry phone or paging system.
Assistance
In matters of assistance at the entrance and during the touring of the Gallery please, if possible contact us at least two days beforehand by phone: 32 44 07 132 or by e-mail. The assistance may be canceled by phone or by email. Assistance is provided by the workers of the Gallery.
You can bring dogs to the gallery—both guide and service dogs, as well as your own four-legged friends. The dog must be kept on a leash, unless the dog’s assistance requires otherwise.
Gallery interior
All entrances and passages inside the Gallery have level access. All corridors and passages are very wide and enable unobstructed and easy passage and wheelchair access. All floors in the Gallery are gray, matte and non-slip. At the building’s entrances there are flat black mats. The walls are white. It’s very bright inside of the Gallery. On the ground floor, on the inside and outside of the building there are a lot of tall glass panels – spanning from the floor to the ceiling. The glass doesn’t have contrasting elements.
On the ground floor there are:
- A wide hall with a register and self-service, free lockers accessed by keys;
- A conference-education room;
- A Quiet Room with a sofa, table, pillows and blankets, with access to running water from the tap;
- Bathrooms: female with a changing station and male;
- An accessible bathroom dedicated to people with disabilities – with enough space to maneuver freely, the ability to transfer onto the toilet seat from the left, moving supinated grips and a wheelchair-accessible washbasin. The mirror is fixed, and the tap handle is elongated.
- In the bathroom, there is no paging system. The light switch is located on the left side of the door, outside the bathroom, and it needs to be turned on manually;
- A large elevator with a flat threshold and automatic doors – the opening button is located on the left side of the elevator doors, same as the buttons inside (they are raised and captioned with Braille). Inside the elevator, there is a mirror and a handrail. The elevator does not have light or sound signalisation;
- The stairs leading up to the first floor are wide, they don’t have separate handrails or contrast markings.
On the first floor, there are exhibitions, which have thorough descriptions along with a description of their accessibility in the “exhibitions” panel on our website. The space on the first floor is symbolically separated into two large rooms, which are connected by wide corridors. Each room has over 100 square meters. Depending on the exhibition, in the rooms there may be placed: pedestals with sculptures, art installations, showcase cabinets, and extra walls for exhibitions. On the walls, there may be hanging paintings, frames with photos, beliefs and other artistic objects.
The first floor can be accessed by stairs or by an elevator. On the first floor it’s comfortable to move around in a wheelchair or with a stroller, there is a lot of space to maneuver around the exhibits.
Attention!
During sunny weather on the half-floor, there may occur the effect of being blinded by a flash of light reflecting off of the white walls.
Although it’s quiet inside the Gallery, the Gallery’s space is open and when someone is talking, there’s a lot of echo, and the sounds (for example from the phone) reverberate loudly. On the walls in the passages in the hall, there are hung paintings, and in the main space there is a white couch and documents with sculptures, some of them weakly contrasting with their surroundings.
DIGITAL ACCESSIBILITY DECLARATION OF THE RZECZNA ART GALLERY
Rzeczna Art Gallery – The Rybnik Centre for Art Education pledges to ensure accessibility of the website www.galeriarzeczna.pl in accordance with the provisions of the Act of digital accessibility of websites and mobile apps of public entities from April 4th, 2019.
Preparation of the digital accessibility declaration of the Rzeczna Art Gallery:
- The declaration of digital accessibility was created on March 5th, 2024;
- The declaration was updated as of August 19th, 2024.
The website is partially in accordance with the Act of digital accessibility of websites and mobile apps of public entities due to discrepancies or exclusions listed below. The evaluation was made with the following validators:
Content inaccessible, requiring improvements:
- wrong or lacking naming of some navigation tools;
- wrongfully indicated headings;
- damaged or empty links;
- not all graphic files have alternative text;
- errors in HTML / CSS validation.
The above irregularities will be addressed on an ongoing basis.
Feedback and contact information:
- Proposals and comments are taken by Agnieszka Zielonka-Mitura
- Phone number: 32 44 07 132
- e-mail: projekty.galeria@tzr.rybnik.pl
In accordance with the Act, anyone has the right to:
- to come forward with the demand to ensure the accessibility of a website, mobile app or their element;
- to demand sharing information by an alternative way of access, for example by the vocal reading of a document that is inaccessible digitally, describing the content of a movie without an audio description etc.
The demand should include:
- Data of the person submitting the demand
- The relevant website or mobile app listed
- Contact information
- If the person submitting the demand requires an alternative means of receiving feedback, information of the preferred means should also be included.
The public entity should fulfill the demand immediately, no later than 7 days after receiving the demand. If completion within that time frame is not possible, the public entity should promptly notify the requester of the revised fulfillment date. The time of the completion of the demand mustn’t exceed 2 months from the day of receiving the demand.
If ensuring digital accessibility is impossible, the public entity may propose an alternative means of accessing the information. In the event that the public entity declines fulfillment of the demand or providing alternative means of information, the submitter may submit a complaint about providing digital accessibility of a website, a mobile app or an element of the above.
After exhausting the above procedures a formal complaint may be submitted to the ombudsman.