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Copper Museum in Legnica

The Museum in Legnica was established in 1879. Its building and rich collections were destroyed in 1945. The present Copper Museum, established only in 1962, inherited nothing from the pre-war Museum and had to be organized from scratch. Legnica and its surroundings have been known since prehistory for the processing of copper and bronze, and since the Middle Ages also for its extraction. The museum has a collection of copper minerals from all over the world, technical monuments in the field of copper mining and smelting, collections of various utilitarian and artistic objects made of copper and its alloys - tools and weapons, simple dishes and household appliances, as well as intricately decorated products of foundry and blacksmithing craftsmanship. , boiler making. #poland #museum