Legnica Copper Museum

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The Copper Museum , in Polish Muzeum Miedzi , in Legnica , German Liegnitz , was opened in 1962 by Tadeusz Gumiński.

It houses exhibits related to the extraction, processing and application of copper (copper minerals from around the world, old and contemporary copperplate engravings ), shows historical techniques for mining and smelting of copper and bronze, ancient and contemporary sculptures, artistic and useful products made of copper and its alloys, an Art Deco collection , contemporary Polish goldsmith work (works by artists from the interwar period and later and from a Liegnitz silver competition) and the history of Legnica and the region. The number of exhibits gathered in more than 40 years of existence of the museum is about 30,000, the museum and the library own 8,200 books and 1,700 volumes of magazines, with increasing numbers.

The seat of the museum is historical: the baroque building of the former abbot assembly Kuria opatów from Lubiąż ( Leubus ) is in Legnica, ulica św. Jana ( St.-Johannes-Straße ); it was built in 1728 (it is one of the most valuable monuments of Baroque architecture in Lower Silesia ). The museum has four branches: one department is the Akademia Rycerska ( Knight Academy ) in Legnica (offers a number of temporary exhibitions, not necessarily in line with the basic profile); the mausoleum of the Silesian Piasts in the church św. Jana in Legnica; a branch is the Kaplica zamkowa ( castle chapel ) in Legnica (in the pavilion of the Piast Castle) with remains from the chapel of Saints Benedict and Laurentius from 1220; Finally, there is the Museum of the Battle of Liegnitz at Legnickie Pole ( Wahlstatt ). The museum also includes the neighboring largest lapidarium in Lower Silesia and a tram memorial from the 1950s on the site of the former tram depot opened in 1998.

The director of the museum is Andrzej Niedzielenko.

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Coordinates: 51 ° 12 ′ 32 "  N , 16 ° 9 ′ 33"  E