MUSE Festival

ABOUT

An independent, safe, and inclusive space for conscious electronic music experience.

MUSE Festival was founded in 2024 as an independent initiative shaped by a passion for electronic music and the need to create an event in Poland that combines artistic quality, a distinctive visual setting, conscious participant experience, education, and dialogue.

From the beginning, we have built the festival on selection, authenticity, and long-term vision rather than a temporary trend. At the centre of MUSE Festival is electronic music presented in the right context: with care for sound, scenography, location, participant comfort, and the coherence of the whole experience.

MUSE Festival is developing as a music-and-cultural event. Alongside concerts and DJ sets, we create space for workshops, talks, and panel discussions dedicated to the underground scene, music production, club culture, booking, independence, safety, and the future of electronic music. We show that electronic music is a full part of contemporary culture, not only night or weekend entertainment.

The choice of location is an essential part of the festival identity. By placing the event inside historical architecture, we show that electronic music can exist beyond the stereotypical club context. The venue becomes part of the experience, strengthens the meaning of the music, gives it a new setting, and creates a unique context for participants, artists, and partners.

The mission of MUSE Festival is to create an independent, safe, and inclusive space in Poland for conscious electronic music experience. We build an event based on high-quality sound, a carefully selected programme, education, industry dialogue, and an engaged community. We want participants not only to listen and dance, but also to learn the context of the electronic scene, exchange knowledge, and co-create the atmosphere of the event.

Our pillars are quality over hype, music as culture, a safe and inclusive space, education and dialogue, and community. We focus on artists and projects that bring freshness, authenticity, and real value to music. We connect music with architecture, visual art, technology, locality, and social responsibility. We create an environment based on mutual respect, freedom of self-expression, and a shared experience of music.

Today MUSE Festival is more than an event. It is a growing platform for electronic culture, connecting artists, audience, and the local community. For brands and institutions, it means the opportunity to co-create a project with a clear identity, an engaged audience, and real potential for further growth. It is a presence alongside an event that combines culture, community, responsibility, and a modern brand experience.

SECOND EDITION

MUSE Festival 2025

MUSE Festival 2025 connected electronic music with a historic location, high production quality, visual art, education, and a shared community experience.

The second edition showed that MUSE Festival is a music-and-cultural project in which concerts, club energy, workshops, panel discussions, and the urban space form one coherent story. The St. John Centre gave the event a monumental concert dimension, while Crackhouse grounded it in the nocturnal, industrial landscape of the Gdańsk Shipyard.

FIRST EDITION

MUSE Festival 2024

MUSE Festival 2024 was the beginning of a project created from a passion for electronic music, sound quality, and the need to build an open, safe space for the community.

The first edition set the foundation for the festival: a carefully selected line-up, an unexpected historic location, the unique atmosphere of the place, and the belief that electronic music can become a complete cultural experience. Goszcz Palace gave the event a distinctive character, allowing techno and other forms of electronics to resonate beyond the classic club context.

MUSE Festival

MUSE FESTIVAL FOUNDERS

MUSE Festival is built by people who did not want to create just another event, but an experience with its own character, energy, and story. Get to know their perspective and see why MUSE Festival is worth the journey.

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MUSE Festival founder

Mislaw

Why was MUSE Festival created?: MUSE was born from the need to create and experience exceptional things. Music, a shared aesthetic, and the belief that the Polish scene still has room for new initiatives brought us together. We wanted to create an event that is refined, intimate, and rooted in the kind of atmosphere we would want to experience ourselves as participants.

What mattered most while creating the festival?: Attention to detail mattered most. Not everything can immediately be done exactly as we imagine it, but I always try to look at the festival through the eyes of a participant. I think about what will make someone feel comfortable, safe, and part of the experience.
Why Balzaq Palace rather than a typical festival space?: I believe classical beauty and unexpected buildings work beautifully with the music we present at MUSE. The name itself refers to the muses, the goddesses from Greek mythology who lived in a palace. Historical architecture gives the experience additional depth and a unique character.
What kind of experience do you want to give MUSE Festival participants?: I would like everyone to return from MUSE with a sense of fulfilment. Some people will come for unique musical experiences, others for dancing, rest, escape from everyday life, or new inspiration. Our task is to create a space where each of these needs can find its place.
What would you say to someone considering coming?: If you like good techno and are looking for an event with character, do not think too long. Come, check our selection, feel the place, and become part of this energy. MUSE is best understood not through description, but through experience.

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MUSE Festival founder

Sara

What mattered most while creating the festival?: From the beginning, staying true to ourselves mattered most to me. We do not want to follow trends only because they are fashionable. We prefer to build our own language consistently, invite people into our sensitivity, and broaden our audience through music that truly moves us.

Why was MUSE Festival created?: MUSE Festival was born partly by chance and partly as a natural consequence of what we were already doing on the scene. We wanted to create a space for people looking for a deeper experience of electronic music. Encountering the first location, the palace in Goszcz, gave this idea a concrete shape.
Why Balzaq Palace rather than a typical festival space?: For me, creating events in historic locations is a form of respect for those places. We give them new life, weave them into the present, and make sure they do not remain only relics of the past. Balzaq Palace allows history, music, and contemporary energy to meet in one experience.
What kind of experience do you want to give MUSE Festival participants?: I would like everyone to find at MUSE what they truly need. For some, it will be music and discovering new sounds; for others, meetings, conversations, and a sense of community. We have a community that supports openness, so I believe this trip can bring more than the festival itself.
What would you say to someone considering coming?: Come with an open mind and readiness for new experiences. MUSE is a space for people who want to discover music, people, and places in a slightly different way. And there is no need to worry about the weather. There will be spaces where you can hide from possible rain.

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MUSE Festival founder

Przemek

Why Balzaq Palace rather than a typical festival space?: Escaping classic clubs and typical festival spaces has become our signature. We look for places with soul, places where this kind of music is not usually played. The contrast between electronics and historical architecture creates a tension that cannot be achieved in a standard location.

Why was MUSE Festival created?: For us, it was a natural step forward. We had been organising events for years, but the proposal to create something in an extraordinary location sparked the impulse. We missed small boutique festivals in Poland where quality, selection, and atmosphere matter more than mass scale or repeated names.
What mattered most while creating the festival?: Quality was and remains our absolute foundation. We are not interested in half measures. From the start, we wanted excellent sound, thoughtful visual production, strong lighting, and a line-up that brings something fresh. We want to invite distinctive artists, not only obvious names.
What kind of experience do you want to give MUSE Festival participants?: We want people to feel free and safe with us. MUSE is not only a party, but also a space for being yourself, discovering music, and broadening perspective. That is why the programme includes panels, workshops, and artists you do not hear at every festival.
What would you say to someone considering coming?: If you are tired of huge, overstimulating festivals and are looking for something more intimate, high-quality, and consciously programmed, MUSE is for you. People who know techno well and those just beginning their journey with this music can both find their place here.

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MUSE Festival founder

Dominik

What kind of experience do you want to give MUSE Festival participants?: From the beginning, I have wanted everyone at MUSE to feel the way I would want to feel when coming to a festival for the first time. A friendly atmosphere, good energy, familiar faces, and the highest quality musical experience. We want to create an event that stays in memory for a long time.

Why was MUSE Festival created?: MUSE was created as a response to a gap we saw on the scene. We wanted to create an event with high musical quality, but on a smaller scale and in a friendly atmosphere. Feedback after the first edition showed us that this kind of space was needed. Our goal is to rebuild the underground festival-and-club community.
What mattered most while creating the festival?: Collaboration and trust mattered most. Thanks to them, we managed to deliver the first edition in just five months from idea to reality. We share a similar aesthetic, musical selection, and sense of direction, so from the beginning we could work with strong energy and coherence.
Why Balzaq Palace rather than a typical festival space?: We are not a mass event, so we do not need to operate in the typical format of a large festival. We do not need a pitch, hectares of fields, or an event hall. Abandoned palaces, churches, and places with history fit perfectly with our vision of boutique underground events where the past meets modernity.
What would you say to someone considering coming?: Come through. It will be good, intense, and in our own way. If you are looking for music, atmosphere, people, and a place that differs from a typical festival pattern, MUSE may be exactly the experience you need.