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The Konin museum is most interesting and well worth a visit if you are in the area. The museum has two distinct sections: the first is dedicated to an excellent example of a straight - tusked elephant found by workers at the local open cut coal mine. The elephant is one of the largest elephant species with a shoulder height of around 4 metres. The earliest record of the elephant in Europe is 800,000 - 700,000 years ago. The second section is a well restored 15th century castle on the shores of Lake Goslawice. You could easily spend half a day looking around the museum.

A Gothic, basilica-style church with three naves. It dates from the 14th century. On the south side, it houses two chapels: the Gothic one dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Renaissance one dedicated to Jan Zemełka, a native of Konin. The chapels feature richly inlaid stalls with floral ornaments, birds, and unicorns, as well as a 16th-century Gothic sculpture of the Virgin Mary. A Gothic baptismal font is located in the side porch, dating from 1866. The vaults are reticulated in the chancel and stellar in the naves. The polychrome and stained glass windows were created between 1908 and 1910 by Eligiusz Niewiadomski, who later assassinated the first President of the Republic of Poland, Gabriel Narutowicz. The front door features 15th-century bronze mascarons in the shape of lion heads.

Built in 1733, it has a horseshoe-shaped plan with a central cloister. It has two stories, separated by a string course. At the junction of the north and east wings is a rotunda on a plinth (built as a library).

Designed by Andrzej Pelletier, it was built between 1796 and 1803 on the then market square, with a medieval urban layout and the shape of a significantly elongated spindle on the north-south axis. Due to the limited width of the market square and the diverging roadways adjacent to the town hall walls, the unusual arrangement of the side walls "formed" an unusual arrangement, resulting in the trapezoidal shape of this two-story building. The roof is hipped, covered with tiles, and due to its unusual plan, it has unique side slopes – ruled planes in the shape of hyperbolic paraboloids. The town hall boasts an 18th-century clock tower faced with wood (the clock comes from the monastery in Ląd). The pediment features four Doric columns of the grand order and a triangular tympanum with the Konin coat of arms. The interiors are decorated with early 20th-century stained glass windows, and the ceiling of the Town Council Chamber is decorated with a stucco ceiling.

Built between 1825 and 1829, is reminiscent of Byzantine architecture. The building was built in a rectangular plan. In 1883, a two-storey extension was added to the north side along its entire length, serving as a women's prayer hall, and a vestibule was added to the west. The city library was located there, but was later moved to Dworcowa Street. The Jewish Talmudic "house of study" ("bes medresz" – "bet ha-midrash"), beside the synagogue and built in 1883, no longer exists. In 2016, the building was demolished.

Until 1786, the town hall stood in its centre. Near the market square stand the Jan Zemełka Tenement House, built in the late 16th century. It was the first secular brick building in the city. It lost its Renaissance features after several renovations. It is two-story, with a gable roof. The vaults are barrel vaults in the hallway and basements, and cross-barrel vaults in the basements and on the ground floor. The Konin County Office building. This building, with distinct Classicist features and covered with a hipped roof, was built in 1828 according to the design of the architect TK Pelletier, the Builder of the Konin District. It was intended to be the seat of the authorities of the vast Konin District. The district comprised the then Konin and Pyzdry counties, from which, in 1866, following the administrative reform of the Russian Partition, the Koło, Turek, and Słupca counties were created for the first time in history. Konin County was significantly reduced in size, and the Pyzdry County disappeared forever. A Classicist tenement house on the corner of Wolności Square and Zofii Urbanowskiej Street, decorated with Ionic pilasters and a tympanum with a wreath and the date 1840. Before World War II, it housed the Hotel Litewski. A Classicist tenement house known as "Grodzka" from the first half of the 19th century on Wolności Square, decorated with Ionic pilasters and a porch with a double-sided staircase, served as a prison in Tsarist times (the legendary Capuchin priest Maksymilian Tarejwa, commander of the January Uprising in the Konin region, was imprisoned there). Before World War II, it housed the Hotel Polski.