Since
1993 the museum in run by the Sokołowski family:
Renata, Grzegorz and their son Kzimierz. The parents’ passion is
also shared by two daughters who run a similar institution in Kamień
Pomorski.
The
museum in Szklarska Poręba offers almost 3000
exhibits: mineral stones and fossils from all over the world,
as well as Gibeon’s meteorite -
an exhibit from cosmic space. In front of the museum building there
is “CARBONIFEROUS WOOD”, the only one in Europe, in the form of
fossil Dadoxylon tree trunks. The trees were growing here about 300
million years ago.
Fossil
exhibits and dinosaurs’ skeletons collected in the museum are an
attraction for every visitor. It is the biggest in Poland private
collection of these reptiles which inhabited the Earth millions of
years ago. Among the exhibits there are also eggs of dinosaurs from
China.
The
oldest fossils presented in the museum are 570 million years old
stromatolites originating from The Kaczawskie
Mountains and trilobites dated for Lower Cambrian period (530 million
years ago).
The
museum provides an audio-video room where popularized scientific
films are shown.
20 Kilińskiego
Street
mobile
phone: 607 100 880
e-mail:
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www.sokolowski-muzea.pl
open:
Tuesdays – Saturdays 10 am – 6 pm, Sundays 10 am – 4 pm,
Mondays – closed; in peak season opened everyday from 10 am till 6
pm
admission:
adults – PLN 10, pensioners and students – PLN 7 (after ID
presentation), teenagers up to 18 years of age – PLN 5, children up
to 5 years of age - free
