Sanitary Technology Museum in Gliwice

The Sanitary Technology Museum in Gliwice is housed in a hundred-year-old sewage pumping station on the grounds of the Central Sewage Treatment Plant. It belongs to the Industrial Monuments Route of the Silesian Voivodeship, but according to the museum's website, visits are currently temporarily suspended.

A museum in a former pumping station

The museum was founded in 2005 in the restored pumping station building from the early 20th century, at ul. Edisona 16.

The building resembles a small manor house and is the newest museum institution in Gliwice. The museum is owned by the Gliwice Water and Sewerage Company. It has been on the industrial monuments route since 19 October 2006.

What the exhibition shows

The collections concern historical sanitary technology: they include historic sluice gates, pumps and compressors.

The story begins with the toilets and bathrooms of our ancestors and ends in the modern buildings of the Central Sewage Treatment Plant. The first Gliwice treatment plant started up in 1911, and construction of the present one began in October 2000. The biological reactor was started a year later. According to the museum, the biogas from the treatment plant covers its heat needs and is used to produce electricity.

Practical information

• Address: ul. Tomasza Edisona 16, Gliwice, on the grounds of an operating treatment plant.
• The museum's website states that, because of modernisation work on the treatment plant grounds, individual visits and guided group tours are suspended for the duration of the work. Check the current information on the museum's website before travelling.
• The site is described as fully accessible to people with disabilities.
• Nearby: Szwajcaria Park and the Gliwice Radio Tower.