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transmitting complex with a 111-metre wooden antenna tower, the site of the Gleiwitz incident of 1939
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a neo-Renaissance industrialist's residence with preserved interiors, home of the Gliwice Museum
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one of the oldest museums in Upper Silesia, with five branches in different parts of Gliwice
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a museum of cast-iron and bronze castings in the former engine house of the Gliwice mine
former funeral preparation house from 1903 with a permanent exhibition on the history of the Jews in Upper Silesia
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historic pumps and sluice gates in a pumping station over a hundred years old on the treatment plant grounds
gallery with computer graphics by Beksiński and works by Polish painters
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university museum with more than 25,000 specimens of mineral resources, minerals and fossils
Museums in Gliwice: Villa Caro, the Radio Station with its wooden tower, art foundry, a sanitary technology museum and a gallery of Beksiński's prints.
Eight museums and galleries cover art, technology, industry and the history of Jews in Upper Silesia. Several branches of one institution spread across town, so it helps to plan an order.
With the Museum in Gliwice, founded in 1905 as the Upper Silesian Museum. It consists of five branches around town: Villa Caro, the Piast Castle, the Radio Station, the House of Remembrance of Upper Silesian Jews and the Artistic Foundry. Its main seat is Villa Caro at Dolnych Wałów 8a, the neo-Renaissance home that Oscar Caro, an industrialist, had built in the 1880s. The interiors keep much of the original decor, and the permanent exhibition shows nineteenth-century homes of Upper Silesian industrialists. The villa and the town are described in the article on Villa Caro, the Polytechnic and the canal.
The Artistic Foundry Branch operates in a former mine engine house at Bojkowska 37 in Nowe Gliwice. You see cast-iron and bronze castings and the story of the Royal Iron Foundry, started in 1796.
A hundred-year-old sewage pumping station houses the Sanitary Technology Museum at Edisona 16, the town's youngest museum. Visits are sometimes suspended, so check the museum's notice before you travel. At the Polytechnic, on Akademicka 2, the Museum of Deposit Geology holds a collection of tens of thousands of minerals, rocks and fossils.
The Gliwice Radio Station of 1935 is a complex of three buildings and a wooden antenna tower of one hundred and eleven metres, a monument of history and a museum branch. On 31 August 1939 the so-called Gleiwitz provocation took place here, as the article on the radio station explains. A calm, factual approach suits this place.
The House of Remembrance of Upper Silesian Jews occupies a pre-burial house of 1903 designed by Max Fleischer. The permanent exhibition tells of Jews in Upper Silesia; read more in the text on the pre-burial house.
The Esta Contemporary Art Gallery at Raciborska 8 is a private gallery from 1998 that specialises in computer graphics. It has exclusive rights to show Zdzisław Beksiński's graphic works.
Between visits, look into the historic sites of Gliwice or the parks and nature of Gliwice. The rest of the town waits at things to do in Gliwice; related institutions of the region are under museums in Silesia.
In Villa Caro at Dolnych Wałów 8a, since 1934.
At Tarnogórska 127. The antenna tower is one hundred and eleven metres tall.
At the Esta Contemporary Art Gallery, Raciborska 8.
Visits are sometimes suspended, so check the museum's notice before you go.
