To what extent do art museums in Poland serve as venues for out-of-school learning of foreign languages? This contribution seeks to answer that question. Online research and interviews with employees of the education and collections departments of the largest art museums in Poland have produced a comparative overview of a diverse spectrum of offerings. Above all, the investigation reveals that a museum is understood as a foreign language learning venue in two distinctive ways. On the one hand, the activities of museums in the field of foreign language teaching are embedded in their role as places of intercultural exchange. Foreign language courses organised with the museums’ participation should therefore be seen as elements accompanying the exhibition in order to facilitate access to a foreign culture. On the other hand, regular foreign language courses are organised in museum rooms, whereby the objects exhibited serve as a starting point for discussions in the foreign language. In this way, museums provide an additional motivational factor for learning a foreign language. Although the role of a museum as a foreign language learning location is understood differently in Poland, current projects confirm recognition of art museums as venues of foreign language learning.