Olkusz [ˈɔlkuʂ] (Yiddish: עלקיש Elkish, German: 1941-45 Ilkenau) is a town in south Poland with 36,607 inhabitants (2014). Situated in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship (since 1999), previously in Katowice Voivodeship (1975–1998), it is the capital of Olkusz County. From 1941 to 1945, the occupying Germans renamed the region to Ilkenau. Olkusz is called 'Silver Town" because of the large amount of silver that was found and mined here.
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In a population of several thousand exhibits collection we can admire about 30 types of minerals mined in Olkusz mines. Arouse interest in the brush calcite and galene with unusual colors and shapes, as well as crystals of galena, marcasite and sphalerite. The second part of the collection formed the fossilized ammonites, belemnites and corals that lived in the area before 150 million years ago
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In the museum we can see a rich collection of fire fighting equipment , cars , horse- watering pots , helmets , axes and fire brigade uniforms of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The collection is complemented by photographs and documents . The museum is also dozens of flags , medals and decorations , minerals and old coins . You can see the uniforms, badges , weapons
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The museum is one of the largest museums presenting art and culture of Africa. The museum was established thanks to donations submitted by Bogdan Szczygiel. You can watch the utensils of daily use, clothing, ritual masks, musical instruments, amulets, sculptures and jewelry and weapons from different regions of Africa. The museum is the private collection of art and paintings of Africa.
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Museum, founded in 1911, is one of the oldest regional museums in Poland. The museum is the sword from the turn of the thirteenth and fourteenth century stone house mark, or burgher arms, arrowheads from the fifteenth century wooden water pipes from the sixteenth and seventeenth century, and a rich collection of archeological. Noteworthy mining and ethnographic exhibition, old documents, and Juda
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Wladyslaw Wolkowski (1902-1986) was called "the Michelangelo of wicker." She made by wicker chairs, tables and compositions still surprising originality of solutions and are a testament to the talent of this artist. The particular nature have large, colorful tapestries and rugs. The museum is located in the historic Manor House Machnickich and is Poland's largest collection of his works.
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