A remnant of the fortifications
The Wolin Gate (Brama Wolińska), also called the Wolin Bastion, is a 14th-century Gothic town gate — from the period when Kamień belonged to the Hanseatic League. Adjoining it is a Gothic bastion known as the Piast Tower. Together with the remains of the town walls, it is among the best-preserved traces of the town's medieval fortifications.
Remembering 1945
In 1965 a memorial plaque was set into the Wolin Gate in honour of the Soviet soldiers who fell in the battle for the town in 1945.
The Stone Museum
Since 2001 the gate and bastion have housed the private Stone Museum of the Sokołowski family, who also own the Mineralogical Museum in Szklarska Poręba. The collection includes dinosaur fossils — among them skeletons of Deinonychus and Ornitholestes, bones of Tyrannosaurus and Allosaurus, and a nest with 33 eggs — as well as minerals (including the largest amethyst cluster in Poland), amber and meteorites. There are also exhibitions on the town's history and replicas of medieval weapons and armour.
Visiting and the view
The museum is open all year round except on Mondays; admission is charged. The bastion's terraces offer a view over Kamień Pomorski and the Kamień Lagoon (Zalew Kamieński). The museum has a shop selling minerals and souvenirs. It is worth checking current opening hours with the museum.
Gallery
