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Silesian Museum

Museums & Art Centres
The Silesian Museum in Katowice is located on the premises of the former “Warszawa mine,” which has been transformed into a cultural mine 14 metres below the ground level, featuring rich and diverse collections.

It contains the Gallery of Polish Art 1800–1945, the Gallery of Polish Art after the Year 1945, the Gallery of Silesian Religious Art and the Gallery of Non-Professional Art, as well as a hugely popular exhibition “The Light of History: Upper Silesia over the Ages.”

The exhibition of set design for film and theatre: “Laboratory of Space: The Past in the Present” is a truly unique show at Centrum Scenografii Polskie

The underground space also includes educational rooms, a library with a reading room, an auditorium with 320 seats, an educational corner for children and space for temporary exhibitions that is 12.5 m high.

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Silesian Museum

Dobrowolskiego 1
40-205 Katowice
Poland