Museums
a wooden villa from the late 19th century with exhibitions of the Karkonosze Museum and museum lessons
Museums
a private collection of minerals and dinosaur fossils in an 1885 villa, with the Gibeon meteorite
doll collections, Hot Wheels and LEGO bricks in zones where you can build and play yourself
Museums
minerals and fossils from the Karkonosze (Giant Mountains) in the historic Walloon Watchtower, including a collection of minerals that glow under UV light
an educational centre of the Karkonosze National Park with an exhibition on the mountains' nature in four languages
Museums
a collection of historic power engineering equipment in the building of a former hydroelectric power station
a collection of over a hundred bottles and labels from the cheapest wines of communist Poland, partly donated by Stefan Friedmann
Museums in Szklarska Poręba cover minerals, toys, the Hauptmann house and the story of the Karkonosze. Pick the ones that suit a grey day.
Stone is the main theme here. The Mineralogical Museum sits in a villa from 1885 and has been open since 1993. You will see fossils, including trilobites, the Carboniferous Forest of petrified Dadoxylon trunks, and a mineral collection run by the Sokołowski family. The Juna Earth Museum is a second private collection, in the historic Walloon Watchtower, reopened in its present form in September 2018. It shows minerals and fossils from the Karkonosze area, and it holds the Local Brand certificate "Skarby Ducha Gór" (Treasures of the Spirit of the Mountains).
The Toy Museum on Jedności Narodowej street shows dolls, including Barbie and Monster High, Hot Wheels cars and plush toys. You can build with LEGO bricks yourself and play on retro gaming gear. Of a completely different kind is the Cheap Wine Museum: over a hundred bottles and several hundred labels, partly a gift from Stefan Friedmann. The Jelenia Góra Power Industry Museum occupies a former water-powered plant in the Kamienna valley and tells the story of electric power.
The House of Carl and Gerhart Hauptmann is a wooden villa from the late 19th century, now a branch of the Karkonosze Museum, with exhibitions and museum lessons. Nature is covered by the Karkonosze Centre of Ecological Education, with a tactile model of the mountains and panel captions in Polish, Czech, German and English. After the museums, head for the mountains around Szklarska Poręba or check more ideas for rainy days. Every museum on the list carries the rainy-day and solo tags, so they also work for a quiet walk around the exhibits on your own. The whole town is on the page attractions in Szklarska Poręba.
