Culture House in Grodków was founded in 1946. It belonged to "Związki Zawodowe", and its seat used to have in a few places of  a town hall in Grodków. In spring 1948, it was located in a new seat at H.Sawicka Street (now Kasztanowa Street). Due to the new supervision of Powiatowa Rada Narodowa (Poviat National Council),the name of the Culture House (Dom Kultury) was changed into Poviat Culture House. In 1954, the House got a name of Józef Elsner because of the 100-year jubilee of his death. In 1976, the name was again changed , from the 1st of January the House's name was Town and Commune Culture House (Miejsko-Gminny Dom Kultury). That name was kept until 1993. Then it has become Culture and Recreation Centre in Grodków, after joining with Sports Hall, Cinema, Swimming pool, Town stadium and country common rooms. It has been functioning up till now. At the moment, the centre has got more than 20 sections and groups(clubs). It organizes about 30 periodic cultural and recreational events each year. In summertime there are about 7000 visitors at the swimming pool, during a year there are about 100 films showed in the cinema "KLAPS".