Wilanów Palace in Warsaw's Wilanów district was designed by Augustyn Wincenty Locci for John III Sobieski. Construction began on April 23, 1677, and finished in 1696. The article calls it a former royal palace and names the style Baroque. It gives no materials or dimensions.
Elżbieta Sieniawska bought the property in 1720 and enlarged it. Augustus II lived there from 1730 to 1733. Stanisław Kostka Potocki opened a museum there in 1805, which the article presents as an early step toward its later public role.
The palace was damaged in World War II, then renovated and reopened in 1962. It is now the Wilanów Palace Museum, owned by the National Museum in Warsaw, and had around 3 million visitors in 2019. The article gives no hours or ticket details.
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