Silesian Railway Museum

Silesian Railway Museum is an open-air railway museum in Jaworzyna Śląska, Lower Silesia, Poland.
The museum has the largest collection of rolling stock in Poland, consisting of over 150 railway vehicles ranging from the late 19th century to the 1970s. This includes the collection of 40 steam, diesel, and electric locomotives of German, Polish, American and British production, over 60 carriages, as well as specialized rail vehicles.
The museum covers and is located in the grounds of the former locomotive depot in Jaworzyna Śląska, which opened in 1908.

History

The museum was founded in 2005, after over a year of efforts to save the collection of steam locomotives and gathered in Jaworzyna Śląska, the Museum leased the area together with the exhibits from Gmina Jaworzyna Śląska. The collection of exhibits taken over from Polish State Railways consisted of 34 locomotives, 41 wagons and 8 workshop machines. Since 2005, the Museum has been operating under the supervision of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. In 2016, the museum became a branch of the Foundation for the Protection of the Industrial Heritage of Silesia.