Rainy day: Śródmieście / Centrum

a bowling alley and billiards in the Silver Screen complex, nine pool tables alongside the bowling lanes

trampolines and a ball pit inside Silver Screen, drop your kid off and catch a movie next door

a basement club-café on Piotrkowska with a bar, concert hall and a bistro serving breakfast

an 1896 eclectic tenement, its cellar houses the Przechowalnia art club

a neo-Baroque palace from 1912-1913, home since 1959 to the Spatif club, a haunt of Łódź's film bohemia

a 1932-1935 modernist building, the best-equipped YMCA in prewar Europe

a cultural institution since 1953, its historic Traugutta street home under renovation since 2017, running elsewhere meanwhile

a small art gallery on Wschodnia Street in downtown Łódź

a three-storey shopping mall whose shape echoes Łódź's post-industrial architecture

the DYGRESJA library has operated here since 1958, with a Scandinavian look and sofas instead of chairs since 2019

the RETRO library has run continuously since 1965, with a PRL-style makeover after a 2023 renovation

an office building in the Goldberg brothers' 1922 weaving mill, later home to the Military Printing House

a gallery and interior design shop in the city centre, close to the Łódź Philharmonic

a foundation established in 2010, running a theatre stage on Sienkiewicza street to support young artists

after renovation, the NADWYRAZ library features Sienkiewicz quotes on the walls and over 9,000 books

the ODYSEJA library, opened in 2020, holds around 7,000 travel books plus a separate kids' room

book club discussions, workshops for adults and a coffee corner on site

a branch named after writer and legionnaire Andrzej Strug, running since 1945 as part of a network of over 60 Łódź libraries