Office Machines Museum in Tychy

The "Typewriter" Office Machines Museum is a private collection of old typewriters and calculating machines. The collection numbers more than 550 exhibits, and the oldest of them, a typewriter by the American firm Odell, dates from 1882.

What has been collected

The collection consists of 326 typewriters, 34 calculating machines and 10 other office devices, such as hole punches, staplers and date stamps. Among them are also typewriters for writing in Braille. The museum's website also mentions coin-counting machines and music-writing machines, books and other items connected with office work.

Practical information

• On his website the collector writes that he organises exhibitions of items in schools, libraries, museums, cultural centres, banks and offices all over Poland, and carries out servicing and restoration of historic office machines.
• The website gives no permanent visiting address or hours, and the contact address points to Pszczyna. Before your visit, contact the museum through the website typewriter-muzeum.pl.
• Tychy also has the Tychy City Museum and the Tyskie Browarium.